GENERAL INFORMATION
 

Project title
 

Enpowerment of Women And Women NGOs In The Least Developed Regions of Türkiye

Priority area
 

Education, Employment and Social Policies

Beneficiary

Women NGOs

Co-Beneficiary
 

Duration

33 Months (24/05/2010-24/02/2013)

EU contribution (Euro)

5.000.000

PROJECT SUMMARY

Brief description of the project and main objectives
 

The project is about upgrading women’s status in the least developed regions of Türkiye with a view to reducing regional disparities.

The aim is to assist the Turkish government to increase and facilitate women’s access to municipal, social and judicial services through improving capacity of women NGOs and awareness building in South Eastern Anatolia, Eastern Black Sea and Eastern Anatolia regions.

Location

South Eastern Anatolia, Eastern Black Sea and Eastern Anatolia

Achievements / expected outputs

Gender sensitive approach is incorporated into service provision policies of governmental organisations, local administrations and non-governmental organisations, and their human resources are improved in terms of gender sensitivity

Organisational and technical capacities of women NGOs improved new women’s organisations are established in three regions

Communication and cooperation among women NGOs is improved

Smoothly structured dialog and partnerships among women NGOs, governmental organisations an local administrations are developed

Project development and management capacities of women NGOs on the building public awareness and capacity to fight against the gender discriminations