Turkiye: Water Efficiency and Climate Resilience for Results Program (Results-Based Financing) (AIIB-001015)

Countries
  • Turkiye
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Proposed
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
B
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Borrower
Government of Turkiye - General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works; Ministry of Agriculture
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Infrastructure
  • Water and Sanitation
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Loan
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 500.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 10,400.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Bank Documents
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ AIIB website

Updated in EWS Jan 19, 2026

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Project Description
If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

According to the Bank’s website, the objective of this project is to improve water use efficiency and enhance flood resilience in the target regions of Turkiye by sustainably expanding climate-resilient irrigation systems and implementing flood protection infrastructure through investments that safeguard livelihoods and agricultural area and enhance the long-term climate-resilience of local communities.

To address these challenges Turkiye had put in place a comprehensive water efficiency and climate adaptation program supported by the World Bank and a few other key development partners through interventions in various sub-sectors, but the needs of the country for sustainable water infrastructure are rapidly increasing. Above all, Turkiye plans to rehabilitate its irrigation system, prevent climate induced floods, minimize non-revenue water, enhance its water storage capacity, increase the very low water reuse levels, and reduce water pollution especially in the industrial sector.

 

Early Warning System Project Analysis
For a project with severe or irreversible impacts to local community and natural resources, the Early Warning System Team may conduct a thorough analysis regarding its potential impacts to human and environmental rights.

As per AIIB's ESP, this RBP has been categorized as Category B because the potential environmental and social (ES) risks and impacts of the RBP are low and limited. Category A activities and other activities that are likely to have significant adverse impacts that are sensitive, diverse or unprecedented on the environment and/or Project-affected people, are not eligible for financing under the RBF and are excluded from the RBP.

Environmental and Social Risks and Impacts: Potential environmental risks and impacts include temporary and localized air, noise and dust pollution; generation of construction waste; soil erosion and water pollution during construction. Occupational health and safety risks would result from construction activities and increased traffic. Operation phase risks may involve water depletion, waterlogging, salinization, increased agrochemical runoff, biodiversity impacts and changes to natural flood regimes. Potential social adverse impacts of irrigation and flood control sub-projects under the RBP may include economic and physical displacements of local farmer households due to land acquisition, labor and working condition concerns and community health and safety risks such as dust, noise, pollution, traffic and waste discharges during construction by the contractors. In addition, the sub-projects under the RBP would have adverse gender impacts if not carefully designed. The sub-projects under the RBP would reduce women's economic opportunities, especially when their agricultural lands are acquired for the construction of schemes under the RBP or when women are excluded from decision-making bodies and Water User Associations.

Investment Description
Here you can find a list of individual development financial institutions that finance the project.

Total Government Program Cost: USD10.4 billion
AIIB Loan: USD500 million
Government Contribution: USD227 million


Contact Information
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CONTACT INFORMATION

PROJECT TEAM LEADER
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Drazen Kucan - Senior Investment Officer
drazen.kucan@aiib.org

BORROWER
Republic of Türkiye
Pelin Koklu Arslan - Ministry of Treasury and Finance, Government of Türkiye
pelin.arslan@hmb.gov.tr

IMPLEMENTING ENTITY
General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works (DSI)
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Muhammed Imran Kulat - General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works (DSI)
kulat@dsi.gov.tr

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

You can submit an information request for project information at: https://www.aiib.org/en/contact/information-request/index.html

ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM OF AIIB

The AIIB has established the Accountability Mechanism for Project-Affected People (PPM). The PPM provides Òan opportunity for an independent and impartial review of submissions from Project-affected people who believe they have been or are likely to be adversely affected by AIIBÕs failure to implement the ESP in situations when their concerns cannot be addressed satisfactorily through Project level GRMs or AIIB Management processes.Ó Two or more project-affected people can file a complaint. Under the current AIIB policy, when the bank co-finances a project with another development bank, it may apply the other bank's standards. You can refer to the Project Summary Information document to find out which standards apply. You can learn more about the PPM and how to file a complaint at: https://www.aiib.org/en/about-aiib/who-we-are/project-affected-peoples-mechanism/how-we-assist-you/index.html

The complaint submission form can be accessed in Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Bengali, Chinese, English, Tagalog, Hindi, Nepali, Russian, Turkish, or Urdu. The submission form can be found at: https://www.aiib.org/en/about-aiib/who-we-are/project-affected-peoples-mechanism/submission/index.html

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