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During the two-day event, women and young entrepreneurs developed innovative ideas for the employment of disadvantaged groups.

On the first day of the event, where seventy young people came together, the participants worked one-on-one with mentors to concretize their ideas. On the second day of the event, they presented their projects to the jury after receiving training on presentation techniques.

“Ask Someone Who Knows/Bi’ Bilene Sor”, a mobile application idea that informs disadvantaged individuals about sexual health and brings them together with experts, won the first prize of 30,000 TL, while “Papyrus/Papirüs” with its Innovative Paper Waste Management idea came second and “Hala Taze/Still Fresh”, an application to prevent food waste, came third.

Organizing technical trainings in different fields to strengthen women’s employment in the digital sector, INGEV continues to contribute to women’s job placement processes with support services in cooperation with Re-Coded and RIZK.

INGEV carries out the “Preparing Young People and Women in Turkey for the Digital Economy” program in cooperation with Re-Coded and RIZK.

DUKKAN Freelance Platform, which we previously piloted with UNDP, is gaining momentum day by day.

So far, 15 companies and more than 80 refugee freelancers have registered on our platform and 5 training videos have been prepared for the beneficiaries.  Efforts to expand the platform and expand it abroad will continue in the coming months.

While 300 freelance entrepreneurs and 100 employers (corporate or individual) are expected to register to the DUKKAN freelance platform, the platform website is expected to become an actively used “marketplace” that brings together refugee freelancers and employers from all over the world.

Within the scope of INGEV’s “Incubation and Small Grant” Program in Şanlıurfa, young people have been receiving basic and advanced entrepreneurship trainings for the last three years. INGEV, in cooperation with DRC (Danish Refugee Council), provides partial grants to entrepreneurs who complete these trainings to cover the costs of setting up their workplaces.

So far this year, half of the basic and advanced entrepreneurship trainings have been successfully completed, while seminars on how to set up a company were organized in Şanlıurfa and Kilis. Registration support is provided to those who have not registered their businesses, while financial, legal and business development consultancy services continue.

The “SheWorks” project, which aims to provide equal opportunities for women in the digital world, provided its beneficiaries with 5 different trainings in July and August, primarily in digital marketing, web, graphic design, e-commerce and online marketing.

Following the trainings, seminars on resume preparation, interview techniques and working culture in Turkey are organized for the beneficiaries. An event is also organized to create opportunities to match these women with potential employers and human resources departments of SMEs.

The project, carried out in cooperation with the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI), aims to support women in Turkey to access opportunities in the digital world through training, capacity building and job placement activities.

INGEV is seeking answers to questions such as “why parents do not send their children to early childhood education”, “what are the problems related to access to education”, “what are the main typologies of parents in terms of their approach to early childhood education” with a new research study that started its field process in August 2022.

With this research, INGEV aims to understand parental perceptions in these areas. The research will also analyze parents’ access to information and media consumption behaviors in the field of child education.

A child’s linguistic, social-emotional and physical development is most rapid between the ages of 0 and 8. During this crucial period of early life, a large part of brain and language development occurs. As a result, there are great advantages of effective early childhood education (ECE) to adequately prepare children for social and academic life. Early childhood education is one of the areas where Turkey has the highest gap with OECD countries. According to OECD data (2019), the participation rate of children aged 3-5 in education is 39% in Turkey, compared to an average of 83% for the OECD.

An analysis of NEET (“Neither in Education, Employment or Training”) statistics in Turkey clearly shows that the issue has a critical gender dimension. While women are more likely to be NEET, according to TUIK data, women have lower access to education than men.

In terms of women’s employment, the labor force participation rates of women and men with the same level of education differ; while only 34.4% of women are in the labor force, compared to 72% of men.

NEET women are not unidirectional within themselves either. It is understood that this group is divided into sub-groups that differ in terms of marital status, perceptions towards working life and education level. The Needs Assessment Research aims to identify the barriers to NEET women’s participation in employment and education, to understand the problems of different segments of this group, and to define in detail their needs and the concrete opportunities that may arise.

INGEV TAM (Center for Social Research) launched the field phase of the Needs Analysis study it is conducting within the scope of the UNDP NEET (“Neither in Education, Employment or Training”) Women Project in August.