United Nations Joint Prog-ramme to Protect and Pro-mote the Human Rights of Women and Girls in Turkey attaches great importance to capacity building activities.
Meeting the target for the required number of new ge-neration educators in gen-der will make a difference in the lives of millions of women all over Turkey.
 Capacity building has three stages. The first stage was provided to the women NGOs and it was completed in early June.
Programme partner, The Association for Training and Supporting Women Can-didates or KA-DER Ankara, carried out these activities in six programme cities: İzmir, Kars, Nevşehir, Şanlıurfa, Trabzon and Van
At these training sessions, participating NGO repre-sentatives became aware of the fact that as long as they cooperate and bring their collective forces together, they can be the part of the solution.
The outcome of the workshops tells us that scope of most of the women's organizations on issues related to gender is very limited. Their activities normally involve general issues. However, women do not pay sufficient attention to urban problems nor participate in local politics. KA-DER Ankara workshops also witnessed
that some women’s NGOs actually operate as charity organizations.
Workshops carried out in the prog-ramme cities expanded the horizons of the representatives of the women NGOs ope-rating in six programme cities.
Local Government capacity building
Another aspect of the programme was to create local services that take the gender dimension fully into account .
UNJP, in this respect, also organized capacity building training for the local government representatives in the programme cities between September and November 2006.
At the workshops participants drafted projects for addressing the most important local issues related to women and girls.
Projects drafted at the NGO and local government capacity enhancement prog-rammes will serve as the basis for the local service reports to be separately prepared by the NGOs and local governments. These reports will later be incorporated into a joint local service report.
Workshops will bring local government and NGO representatives together for the preparation of five year local action plans. Cities successfully implementing these plans will receive “Women Friendly City” certi-ficates issued by the UN.
 Project Cycle Management Training
Securing sustainable resources for the projects that will address the needs of local women and girls in the six programme cities is a challenge for all parties.
With this in mind, from August to November 2006, Project Cycle Mana-gement (PCM) training was given to NGO and Local government representatives in the programme cities.
PCM training in programme cities serves several purposes. PCM training facilitates access to sustainable funding for development of projects addressing social needs and improvement of women friendly local services. As a new approach, PCM brings local government and NGO representatives together and lays the groundwork for future cooperation between them.
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