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“Human Development Index – Districts” Results Announced

“Human Development Index – Districts” Results Announced

The District’s Human Development Levels Have Been Announced
Human Development Index – Districts (HDI-D) Report was completed

INGEV’s Human Development Index (HDI) research among Turkey’s 150 districts is concluded. According to the published results, the districts with Very High Human Development (Green Category) are as follows:

İNGEV Chairman Vural Çakır comments: “Our team of experts has developed an objective mechanism to successfully evaluate our districts’ performance in HDI. More importantly, we are aiming to be able to identify the issues that require prioritized improvement in order to achieve higher development levels in future. With this framework, local administrations will have better insight as to the progress of human development in their area. Through cooperation with local administrators, we desire to identify strategies to advance in Human Development.” Abbreviated as HDI-D, the investigation included 150 districts from Turkey’s 30 metropolitan provinces. Factoring in social and economic variables at the district level, HDI-D includes 50 indices such as governance, social inclusion, income levels, education, health, social life, and transportation. Besides pure statistical data, information acquired through municipalities activity reports, official websites and “anonymous information requests.”

Lecturer at Istanbul University Faculty of Economics, Asst. Prof. Murat Şeker, who conducted this research: “The repetition of this research will set light to improvements in development and constitute a reference database of HDI, the where local administrations could benefit following their districts’ development.” Emphasizing on the role of local action plans in order to raise the overall development of Turkey and the responsibility that municipalities have in focusing their activities on this field, Şeker continued: “The local residents will benefit from the budgets and municipalities to the greatest extent if the local administrators put Human Development at the center of their strategies. According to the report, highest Human Development were reported in following the districts: Çankaya, Yenimahalle and Keçiören in Ankara; Kadıköy, Beşiktaş, Beyoğlu, Bakırköy, Şişli, Fatih, Ataşehir and Üsküdar in İstanbul; Muratpaşa and Konyaaltı in Antalya; Odunpazarı and Tepebaşı in Eskişehir; Nilüfer and Osmangazi in Bursa; and finally İzmit in Kocaeli.

Türkiye’de Yaşlı Bakım Hizmetlerinin Proaktif Yönü

INGEV Completed The Research for “The Proactive Side of Elderly Care Services in Turkey and Its Financial Burden Analysis Project”

INGEV Completed The Research for “The Proactive Side of Elderly Care Services in Turkey and Its Financial Burden Analysis Project”

The study was conducted in 2016 on behalf of Ministry of Family and Social Policies. The objectives of the study are determining geographical distribution of elderly population in Turkey and projecting the financial burden of elderly care services on public in the near future.

In the scope of the study a series of topics are covered including historical development of aging population in the world and Turkey, current situation and types of public care services offered to elderly population in Turkey and types of care service models in different countries. Beside background information about elderly population and care services, future operating and infrastructure cost of current care service models that provided by public sector are projected based on population projections of TUIK within the study.

Population projections estimate that every 10 people in 2023, 4 people in 2050 and 3 people in 2075 will be included in the elderly population in Turkey. The increase in life expectancy will lead to increase in the proportion of the eldest (85+ ages) among the elderly in the coming years. The increase in the average age of elderly population over time will increase the population requiring institutional care and health expenditures . When the aging speed of Turkey is compared with developed countries it is clear that Turkey has a limited time to plan the financial burden of aging and care services.

Public funded elderly care services in Turkey consist of cash aid and institutional care services covering a very limited number of elderly. As of 2015, only 1,7% of the 9,5 million elderly received a kind of public-based care.

In order to estimate financial costs of public funded elderly care services until 2023, three scenarios were run. In the first scenario, it is assumed that the demand for public care services will be at the same level as today and in the second scenario it will reach to OECD average. The third scenario estimates the demand according to statement of those who want to receive institutional care service in old age in TAYA 2011 research. All three projections show that if public care service model continues as it does today, it is very hard to meet the demand in the future and even if the demand can be met, operational and infrastructure costs will be extremely high.

This situation shows urgent need for reorganization of social services and introducing new care systems in Turkey. The study suggests four areas to improve elderly care services; easy access to elderly care services for all needy people, sharing the responsibility and care service delivery between central and local governments, organizational restructuring of health and social services for the joint delivery of services, diversification of elderly care services, primarily home care services.

Muhtar Kent will be at Act*Human Summit…

One of the global leaders of the business world, Chairman of the Board and CEO of The Coca Cola Company, Muhtar Kent, will be at Act*Human Summit…

Muhtar Kent is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of The Coca-Cola Company, a position he has held since April 2009. Previously he was President and Chief Executive Officer and earlier, President and Chief Operating Officer.

Mr. Kent joined The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta in 1978, holding a variety of marketing and operations leadership positions over the course of his career. In 1985, he became General Manager of Coca-Cola Turkey and Central Asia. Beginning in 1989, he served as President of the Company’s East Central Europe Division and Senior Vice President of Coca-Cola International, with responsibility for 23 countries.

To know more about Muhtar Kent…

World Bank Report on “Poverty and Shared Prosperity”

A new World Bank study on poverty and shared prosperity says that extreme poverty worldwide continues to fall despite the lethargic state of the global economy. But it warns that given projected growth trends, reducing high inequality may be a necessary component to reaching the world’s goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030.

According to the inaugural edition of Poverty and Shared Prosperity—a new series that will report on the latest and most accurate estimates and trends in global poverty and shared prosperity annually—nearly 800 million people lived on less than US $ 1.90 a day in 2013. That is around 100 million fewer extremely poor people than in 2012. Progress on extreme poverty was driven mainly by East Asia and Pacific, especially China and Indonesia, and by India. Half of the world’s extreme poor now live in Sub-Saharan Africa, and another third live in South Asia.

In 60 out of the 83 countries covered by the new report to track shared prosperity, average incomes went up for people living in the bottom 40 percent of their countries between 2008 and 2013, despite the financial crisis. Importantly, these countries represent 67 percent of the world’s population. (estimated 4.5 billion people)

To read the full report…

Harari will be at Act*Human Summit…

One of 21st Century’s Most Acclaimed Book – The author of “Sapiens: A Brief History of Man Kind”, Yuval Noah Harari will be at Human Development Summit…

Prof. Yuval Noah Harari is the author of the international bestseller “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind”..

He was born in Haifa, Israel, in 1976. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 2002, and is now a lecturer at the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He specialized in World History, medieval history and military history. His current research focuses on macro-historical questions:

To know more about Harari…

The Importance of the Corporation in Shaping Human Development

Deputy editor of “The Economist” and editor for “1843” magazine, Emma Duncan, will be at Human Development Summit…

Emma Duncan is the Editor of 1843 , the relaunch of The Economist’s high-end magazine, Intelligent Life. Renamed for the year The Economist was founded, she leads a team of 25 across editorial and commercial writers. The magazine covers the world of ideas, culture and lifestyle and its coverage goes beyond Europe to include America and Asia.

To know more about Duncan…

Our new office location is Kosuyolu…

Dear İNGEV ( Human Development Foundation) Friends ,

Our foundation has moved into the heart of Kosuyolu .

Weekdays between 09:00-6:00 pm, we will be more than happy to welcome you all to our new office, address details located below.

So where does the name Kosuyolu come from, what makes this name so special?

Acibadem’s neighboring district Koşuyolu was a district where horse races were organized by members of the Ottoman court between the years 1900-1920…

Address: Koşuyolu Cd.No : 52 Koşuyolu – Kadıkoy / Istanbul, Turkey

Tel: 0216-540 50 21

Fax: 0216-540 50 24

Our Phone or fax numbers have not changed .

Looking forward to seeing you at Kosuyolu …

UNDP documentary “Thirty Million” Gives Voice to Millions Under Threat

A UNDP-supported documentary was recently released on the threat sea-level rise poses to 30 million Bangladeshis.

South Asia country of Bangladesh is predicted to lose 17 percent of its land by the end of the century if global sea levels rise by one meter.

That has the potential to displace 30 million Bangladeshis.

The documentary, “Thirty Million”, was co-directed by British climate scientist Dr. Daniel Price – who last year cycled from New Zealand to Paris as part of the Pole to Paris campaign – and New Zealand TV journalist Adrien Taylor. The film, financed by UNDP with support from the Least Developed Country Fund of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), was launched by high ranking officials from UNDP, GEF and Bangladesh at an event in the UN Secretariat in New York City.

Last but not least, in order to raise awareness to this issue, UNDP and partners will be carrying the call for increased action through to COP22 in Marrakesh, and work with partners to translate the Paris Agreement into tangible, concrete results.

Source: www.undp.org

Final Countdown for World Humanitarian Summit

Less than a week to The First World Humanitarian Summit… WHS will be held 23-24 May 2016 in Istanbul, bringing together governments, humanitarian organizations, people affected by humanitarian crises, and new partners to propose solutions to our most pressing challenges and set an agenda to keep humanitarian action fit for the future.

Ingev visits Seferhisar ve Silivri Municipalities for Agricultural Practices

One of the important projects of INGEV is to support peri-urban agricultural production, and in particular small family enterprises. For this purpose an official visit was organized to Silivri and Seferihisar municipalities by İngev Chairman Vural Cakir and İngev consultants Levent Özkula, Prof. Suleyman Taban and Vildan Samanci. Information gained from these visits will be converted into a business model of successful agricultural projects in order to increase awareness and support at international level.

Silivri Mayor Ozcan Isiklar: “We are here with Ingev Chairman Vural Cakir and our colleagues from the center of Agricultural Production and Research. We explained the work done here. There is now a certain fact accepted by the world. The future will rise again in the hands of agriculture. That’s why the recognition of our project by the United Nations, in this sense, is of great importance, “he said.

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