Location: Turkey

Date of start and completion: April 2024 – August 2024

Clients: Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality

Turkish metropolitan municipalities must prepare a strategic plan for their 5 years of activities. These plans need to be prepared in a participatory way to ensure engagement of all stakeholders. The plan includes a vision and mission and a set of strategic objectives. Also, a list of key performance indicators (KPI) needs to be designate to monitor the implementation. As the current strategic plan nears its completion, Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality is now focused on crafting the upcoming strategic plan for the years 2024-2029.

Regarding this matter, Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality has established a consultancy service and selected Protek Yapi ECC to carry out the study. The initial stage of the project has been thoroughly addressed in this professional consultancy service. It encompasses the evaluation of Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality previous strategic plan and the development of an action plan to serve as the foundation for strategic planning over the next five years.

In order to achieve the project outcomes following activities have been done:

• Activity 1: Situation Analysis
• Activity 2: performance evaluation of the previous strategic plan
• Activity 3: Gaziantep metropolitan municipality legislative analysis
• Activity 4: Gaziantep metropolitan municipality areas of activity
• Activity 5: Analysis of top policy documents
• Activity 6: Stakeholder analysis
• Activity 7: Pestle analysis
• Activity 8: Swot analysis
• Activity 9: Strategy development including goals and objectives
• Activity 10: Activities, projects and performance indicators
• Activity 11: Cost estimation and budgeting
• Activity 12: Preparing a strategic plan with participatory methods in order to monitor and evaluate the implementation