DOKA Turkish Abbreviation

Doğu Karadeniz Kalkınma Ajansı

Eastern Black Sea Development Agency’s (DOKA) main aim is, “To improve cooperation between public sector, private sector and non-governmental organizations, to ensure the proper and effective use of resources and to mobilize local potential, to accelerate regional development in line with the principles and policies envisaged in the national development plan and programs, was established on 29.7.2009 to serve TR90 NUTS-2 region (Artvin, Giresun, Gümüşhane, Ordu, Rize and Trabzon) on the basis of Law No. 5449 in order to ensure sustainability and to reduce the differences between regional and intra-regional development. The agency’s headquarter is located in Trabzon.