Women Friendly Cities 2013 Small Grants Programme Compendium is now available. You can download the compendium from the link below. (Linked document contents are in Turkish)

Women Friendly Cities 2013 Small Grants Programme Compendium

The Programme Review Meeting of Women Friendly Cities was held in Ankara Hilton Hotel on 3 December.

The Deputy Governors, Deputy Mayors, Secretary General and Consultants of Mayors, Equality Unit focal points, Heads of Equality Commission, NGO representatives of 12 project cities and Women Friendly Cities Programme team evaluated the programme under three main topics during the meeting.

The success stories and problems were discussed and future road maps were developed in the areas of Local Equality Mechanisms and Legislation in cities, Local Equality Action Plans and Monitoring, Civil Society – Public Partnership during the programme review meeting where Prof. Dr. Yıldız Ecevit, Ms Feray Salman and Ms Zeliha Ünaldı were the moderators.

The meeting was closed with the closing remarks of Ms Zeynep Başarankut Kan, Assistant Representative of United Nations Population Fund, Ms Matilda Dimovska, Assistant Representative of United Nations Development Programme, Ms Annika Palo, Counsellor of Embassy of Sweden and Mr Süleyman Elban, the Deputy Director General of Local Administrations of Ministry of Interior.

Within the scope of Women Friendly Cities, the Gender Sensitive Data Collection and Analysis Guidebook was prepared by the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV). You can download guidebook from the link below. (Linked document contents are in Turkish)

Women Friendly Cities - Gender Sensitive Data Collection and Analysis Guidebook

Wishing to remember that data also have gender...

The Experience Sharing and Organizational Strengthening Meeting of Women Friendly Cities and Women Coalition was held in Ankara on 14-15 November.

More than 80 NGO representatives from 12 cities have participated in the meeting where local policies, organizational strengthening and looking to the future were discussed; works done so far were evaluated and local experiences were shared.

Implementing international women agenda at the local level was also discussed at the meeting which we have left with great excitement and important assignments that awaits us!

We thank Women Coalition team for their valuable efforts in this meeting...

Women’s Rights Commission of the Mardin Bar Association has established a Women Support Center thanks to the support of the Women Friendly Cities Programme and the Human Rights Joint Platform. The establishment of the women support center was one of the most prominent activities listed in the Mardin Local Equality Action Plan. The Center will provide legal support to improve access to justice for women victims of violence or other such crimes.