Development and Maintenance of Environmental Information System

Provision of Technical Assistance to Turkish Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF) in the form of specialized consultants to achieve the objective of Development and Maintenance of Environmental Information Systems (EIS), in order to support the following overall objectives;

• Enable Turkey to achieve a high level of environmental protection.
  
• Compliance with the EU access to environmental information and reporting directives.
  The infrastructure and main building blocks of the Environmental Information System has been implemented in previous project. Based on its outputs this project has been directly linked to the output of Access to Environmental Information and Institutional Building project.
  In order to enable structured monitoring and management, the project activities have been categorised into phases as described below:

1. Initiation and Inception Phase:
Project Standards and methodology has been established in close co-operation with the MoEF project team including;

• Project work plan
  
• Detailed work approach
  
• EIS Change management process definitions
  
• Test - acceptance process definition and Acceptance Criteria (AC)
  
• Project standards and forms
  
• Change Management Group in MoE&F to evaluate and implement the needs and changes to the EIS.
  
• Project organisation and team-up structure with roles and responsibilities.
  

2.EIS Infrastructure Phase :
Strengthening the technical infrastructure of EIS system environment, database and applications and building capacities in ICT technologies for EIS.

Technical studies include but not limited to the following;
Metadata, Templates, Overall System Functionality, Logging, Authentication and Authorisation Mechanism, Data Quality Assurance Mechanism, Paging, Advanced Search, Reports Engine. The achieved results are Sustainable EIS by technical training and close cooperation and visible EIS.

3.EIS Modular Enhancement Phase :

EIS modular functional and technical improvements and enhancements have been implemented including but not limited to the following;

Functional enhancements and improvements on the EIS modules have been implemented. New modules and functionality have been incorporated into the system. EIS system incorporates the following main modules; General Information Module, Noise Module, Inspection, Waste, Water, Air, Coast and Sea, Soil, State of Environment Reporting, Geographic Information System Module.

EIS has been enhanced with comprehensive Geographical Information System designed developed and integrated with EIS.

Technical enhancements on the system include Single Sign-on capabilities to support the utilisation of EIS related systems from single entry portal environment. Data management capabilities have been greatly improved with design and development of data management module to incorporate all environmental relevant data into EIS database and applications.

4.EIS Dissemination Phase: Dissemination activities have been executed including the training of EIS to selected user base as determined by MoEF and to create environmental awareness incorporating the following activities:

• Preparation of Training Strategy and Training Programme
  
• Preparation of Training Material and Database
  
• Execution of EIS Trainings, Evaluation of Training and Certification
  
• Communications and Visibility Outputs (EIS poster: EIS brochure)
  The EIS system visibility and sustainability is supported with prepared documentation and trainings to the MoEF IT department. TA has been provided for establishment of EIS Workgroup organisation structure and teams within MoEF for sustainability of EIS.