6TH INTERNATIONAL ISTANBUL CURRENT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CONGRESS
MODEL PROPOSAL FOR THE NEED OF COORDINATION IN WATER MANAGEMENT: GENERAL SECRETARIAT OF THE HIGH COUNCIL FOR WATER POLICIES
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Liberty Publications
Currently, water crisis has the potential to produce devastating results that concern many countries, including our country, and there is a need for an effective fight against the crisis. However, in the field of public administration, it is important to develop the coordination capacity between organizations for complex and difficult-to-solve problems such as water crisis. The Whole of Government approach emphasizes the need to resolve the confusion of authority in the administrative field after the New Public Management reforms and the need for organizations to produce policies together against problems that are difficult to solve alone. Based on this approach, it is thought that it would be beneficial to focus on coordination in water policies, as in many policy areas. In Türkiye, there is a need to enhance coordination by creating integrated initiatives in terms of legal and administrative aspects between ministries and other organizations in the field of water management and policies. In the process of the European Union accession negotiations, especially in the late 2000s, attempts to formulate a water law and ensure coordination between organizations in the field of water policies that came to the forefront were unsuccessful and the boards established for the purpose of ensuring coordination at the ministry level could only make limited progress in water policies. Efforts in this direction continue today. In this study, it is suggested that an organizational structure above the ministry level is necessary to solve the coordination problem and it is suggested that the High Council for Water Policies (HCWP) should be established as a general secretariat affiliated to the Presidency. In this sense, it is emphasized what the HCWP should not be and what it should be, based on relevant examples in the administrative structure of Türkiye, and suggestions are made regarding its organizational structure. It is thought that the HCWP, which is expected to play a role in solving the legal and administrative complexity between ministries and other organizations, will be an appropriate authority to solve coordination problems in the fight against the water crisis in particular and in water policies in general, with the powers it will have in terms of planning, implementation and control in administrative terms.
