Two national meetings were held in March and June 2006 with the participation of closeto 500 persons including high level representatives from MoI, the six programme cities as well as representatives from donor embassies, Hacı Ömer Sabancı Foundation and KA-DER. Academicians and representatives from NGOs also participated in those meetings.
Capacity enhancement trainings for local government and NGO representatives on women friendly local services in programme cities were completed. 125 local government officials and 136 NGO representatives in six programme cities are now more aware of their responsibilities in developing women friendly cities.
60 local government officials and 35 women NGO members received Project Cycle Management Training and were granted certificates.
A gender e-group was established,computers, monitors and printers provided for NGOs.
A number of reading materials were prepared for both training and awareness raising purposes (5 books, 4 booklets, 3 newsletters together with 6 brochures on the results of opinion polls conducted at a very early stage of the programme, 2 brochures on UNJP).
Programme home page is created at www.protectingwomen.org. Address.
Completed programme activities
- 7 March 2006 National launch of the programme, Ankara.
- March 2006 Public opinion poll results.
- April- August 2006 Cooperating with the Ministry of Interior to include gender perspective into the circular “Rules and Regulations of Strategic Planning in Public Administration Bodies”, Ankara.
- May 2006 Meetings with the local partners in the programme cities.
- May 2006 Gender training for women associations in the programme cities.
- May - June 2006 Workshops for women associations in line with the preparation of local service reports in programme cities.
- 21 June 2006 Six month review meeting and announcement of VAKSA’s partnership in the programme, Ankara.
- July - August 2006 Preparation of curriculum and reading material for the local government capacity development training, Ankara.
- July - August 2006 Preparation of curriculum and reading material for the Project Cycle Management (PCM) training for local government and NGO representatives, Ankara.
- August 2006 PCM training for local government and NGO representatives started.
- September 2006 Local government capacity building training started
- 15 September 2006 Joint Programme presentation at Caucasian Festival, Kars.
- Sept-Nov. 2006 Local government capacity building training.
- August-November 2006 PCM training for local government and NGO representatives.
- October – November 2006 Evaluation of trainings.
Planned Programme Activities
- 5 December 2006 Six-month Review Meeting of Joint Programme, İstanbul
- December 2006 Workshop on preparing local service reports and 5 year local action plans, Ankara.
- January 2007 Meeting with parliamentary deputies of programme cities.
- January - February 2007 Workshops in 6 programme cities for finalizing local service reports and 5 year action plans.
- February 2007 Setting the criteria for supporting the activities of the local action plans.
- March 2007 Finalising local service reports and 5 year local action plans.
- February 2007 Setting criteria for VAKSA small grants support in 6 programme cities.
- March 2007 Outlining official procedures for VAKSA’ support.
- March 2007 Establishment of follow-up mec-hanism for VAKSA support.
- March 2007 Project applications start for small grants programme.
- June 2007 Selection of projects that will be supported by VAKSA.
- September 2007 Establish criteria for Women Friendly Cities.
- October 2007 Supporting the projects.
- October – November 2006 Preparation of the Joint Programme Extension Model for implementation in other cities.
- December 2007 “Women Friendly City” certificates to be granted to the cities who successfully implement local action plans.
 Continuous Programme Activities
Quarterly bulletin. And updated information sharing with all Program partners through the web site.
Advocacy campaign for promoting women’s and girls’ rights.
Official and semi-official meetings in programme cities for keeping involvement alive.
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