Regional Strategy Documents
In the globalizing world, local and regional economies are gaining increasing importance in the overall development of countries. In other words, regional economies are now building blocks of national economies.
We can say that; development based on internal dynamics also requires efforts to develop policies that can respond to region-specific needs. Policies produced from the center based on hierarchical relationships, in parallel with the decrease in the center's resources, are now insufficient to meet region-specific needs. The unique dynamics of the regions necessitate applying differentiated policies to that region in terms of development. Therefore, there is no longer a standard development recipe that can be applied to every region.
With the increasing importance of the internal growth model supported by a regional competition approach instead of a holistic development planning on a national scale, development agencies began to spread worldwide from the 90s. According to Law No. 5449, the duties of Development Agencies, whose pilot applications started in our country in 2006, are defined as "to accelerate regional development, ensure its sustainability, and reduce inter-regional and intra-regional development disparities in line with the principles and policies envisaged in national development plans and programs, by developing cooperation between the public sector, private sector and civil society organizations, ensuring the effective use of resources locally, and mobilizing local potential."
On the other hand, structural changes experienced on a global scale, new production and consumption processes, environmental problems, the increase in the unknown despite the increase in information, technological progress or free trade relations can directly affect all geographies regardless of location. We see that economies that cannot adapt to these new dynamics at the national or regional level are regressing.
Regional Plans aim to provide the most significant contribution to our country's long-term national development goals while at the same time revealing the necessary policies to increase the competitiveness of the Konya-Karaman Region at national and global levels.
Since its establishment, two important regional plans have been prepared under the coordination of Mevlana Development Agency. You can access detailed information about these plans from the links below.
In the national development of countries, the importance of local and regional development policies has gradually increased, and approaches that manage development locally have come to the fore instead of the traditional approach that manages development centrally. Thus, the approach that regional development policies, determined with the participation of local actors by considering the effect of local dynamics and feeding on local knowledge and goals, will contribute more to national development has been adopted.
Based on this approach, it has been reported that regional plans covering the years 2024-2028 will be prepared in coordination with Development Agencies and in cooperation with all stakeholders from public, private sector, and non-governmental organizations, with the Presidential Circular dated 07.06.2022 and numbered 2022/7.
The regional plan is a tool used to accelerate regional development, and while ensuring development, it is a plan that gives importance to the optimal and effective use of limited regional resources to leave them to future generations in a healthier way, that is, to ensure the sustainability of resources, and that determines how resources will serve development purposes, guiding the region with a strategic approach.
Within this framework, the 2024-2028 Konya Karaman Regional Plan, prepared with a participatory approach, aims to raise common development awareness in the region; and to direct resources to areas that will reveal the dynamism of the region and provide higher added value to the region.
Today, the concept of development is not one-dimensional and includes economic, social, cultural, and environmental elements. When the transformation of the concept of development in the world is examined; initially, only the economic dimension was perceived and indexed solely to per capita income. However, since the 1980s, this understanding has changed, and the view that social development cannot be reduced to the economic sphere alone, but must also include social, cultural, environmental, and spatial dimensions, has become widespread. In this context, the concept of “sustainable development” has come to the fore. A strategy document that will shape the future of the region
- Being a product of the common mind of regional stakeholders, it should be created as a result of a participatory process,
- Directing all resources of the region towards a common goal,
- Effective and efficient use of resources, directing them to areas that will create the highest added value,
- Preparation with a strategic approach, enabling adaptation to new conditions that may arise in the future,
- It should have features such as having spatial orientations and focusing on the goal of minimizing intra-regional development differences.
On the other hand, the Tenth Development Plan (OKP) and Regional Development National Strategy (BGUS) studies, which will be the basic policy document revealing the transformation areas, targets, and strategies our country will focus on, are carried out under the coordination of the Ministry of Development. In a period where new production and consumption regions are forming on a global scale, the preparatory work for the Tenth Development Plan and BGUS is an important opportunity to identify the necessary strategies and policies for our country to emerge victorious from this process. In this context, it is of great importance that all segments of society participate widely in these studies in order to reach a consensus on the country's future goals and ideas, and thus to be able to implement the plan.
At this point, our agency serving in the Konya and Karaman Region has also made significant contributions with its studies carried out during the Regional Plan process regarding placing the OKP and BGUS preparatory studies on a strong and widespread social basis and activating regional dynamics.
The Konya Karaman Region 2014-2023 Regional Plan is a strategy document created over a working period of approximately one and a half years and has emerged as a result of numerous events organized with the participation of Regional stakeholders, which we, as the Board of Directors, closely followed to ensure maximum internalization of the aforementioned features. In this context, it will make a high contribution to the Region.
You can access the Republic of Turkey Mevlana Development Agency Karaman-Konya 2014-2023 Regional Plan and its annexes from the files section.
The TR52 2010-2013 Regional Plan, prepared by Mevlana Development Agency (MEVKA) with the participation of Regional stakeholders to accelerate the development process of the TR52 Level 2 Region and approved by the State Planning Organization Undersecretariat, has been published.