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The overall objective of the project that is implemented by ILO and the Turkish Employment Agency, IŞKUR, is to contribute to women’s empowerment in Turkey by providing decent work opportunities through capacity development of relevant institutions, active labour market policy (ALMP) interventions and enhancing awareness on gender, women’s human rights and rights at work. The project will enable the preparation of a nation-wide policy framework on women employment, the integration of gender sensitive and rights-based approaches into active labour market policies and the identification of occupations that offer more decent employment opportunities for women in project provinces. This will be achieved through improving capacities of relevant institutions at national and local levels to design and implement employment as well as awareness raising interventions for women.
The expected results from the project are:
A National Action Plan on Women’s Employment and Gender Equality (NAP for Women) will be prepared by a national technical team composed of relevant stakeholders and adopted by ISKUR.
The project will contribute to the development as well as effective implementation of gender sensitive employment policies at the local level through ISKUR and PEVTBs (Provincial Employment and Vocational Training Boards). The project will also contribute to increase the outreach of ISKUR to unemployed women through better matching mechanisms with a view to providing more decent jobs for women. Awareness on gender equality, women’s human rights and rights at work among women and men will be increased.
It is with this understanding that the ILO, in cooperation with ISKUR, developed a proposal to support government’s efforts to develop employment policies targeting women as laid out in the Ninth Development Plan as well as other policy frameworks and to build a model for implementation in project provinces i.e. in Ankara, Bursa, Istanbul and Konya as well as a model for replication in other provinces nation-wide.
The Swedish Ambassador Mr Lars Wahlund, held an opening speech, underlining not only the empowerment of women through accessing the official labour market, but also the economic necessity of inclusion of Turkey’s untapped potential into the workforce, the women. There are limits to most aspects of growth, but Turkey is far from reaching its limit, provided further economic and structural reforms are undertaken. A key change needed is increasing women’s participation in official and registered jobs, that also generates social benefits for the individual.
Further information about the project can be sought at www.esitizberaberiz.org
For further information about Sweden’s engagement in supporting gender equality in Turkey, please contact Ms Selin Yasamis at selin.yasamis@gov.se
