Status: Ongoing

Project Duration: Sept 2025- Sept 2026

 

Challenge

In southern Türkiye (Adana, Mersin, Hatay), rapid industrialization, climate risks, and post-earthquake recovery pressures threaten coastal and terrestrial ecosystems. Civil society often lacks the legal knowledge and advocacy skills needed to defend environmental rights and ensure accountability in environmental governance.

Solution

HUDOTO will build a new generation of local advocates through a structured capacity-building program on environmental law and advocacy. The project combines online training modules, a field-based workshop in Tarsus, and the development of a participatory “Environmental Justice Roadmap.” This network will empower citizens, lawyers, and activists to monitor threats, pursue legal remedies, and influence local policies.

 Project Deliverables

• Five online training modules reaching 35 selected participants, measured through pre- and post-surveys.

• A two-day field workshop in Tarsus linking legal education with direct observation of ecosystems under threat.

• A co-created Environmental Justice Roadmap shared with at least five local institutions and authorities.

• Establishment of a digital platform for ongoing peer learning and advocacy.

 

About the organisation: The Law, Nature, and Society Foundation works to protect the rights of nature, the environment, animals, and humans, and to promote an ecological and sustainable economy. It seeks to ensure the well-being of current and future generations, foster equality, democracy, and peace, and safeguard natural, historical, cultural, and social values by preventing violations and supporting their implementation and development.