NEVŞEHİR

Governor of Nevşehir, M.Asım Hacımustafaoğlu expresses his views on the UNJP to Local Facilitator Huriye Karabacak:

I would like to stress that we give great importance to the United Nations Joint Programme to Protect and Promote the Human Rights of Women and Girls, and support the provincial coordinator of this programme in all of her efforts.
As known, the Family and Women's Information Center, which we commissioned for its services six months ago, provides information to hundreds of women on their rights, as well as counselling services on various matters.Recent legal reforms that established the framework of service scope of local governments indeed encourage further participation of women and women's perspective in the decision making processes.The programme staff for the United Nations Joint Programme to Protect and Promote the Human Rights of Women and Girls receive support from our Governor's Office in all of their undertakings, particularly regarding the education of women and girls. It will be stressed that women should assume more duties in all non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at all platforms, and thus an infrastructure will be established for their work in the local governments.
I believe that women's further participation and the inclusion of women's perspective into the local decision making mechanisms will contribute to service capacity and the efficiency of local governments, and that women's undertaking of duties in local decision making mechanisms will raise the service quality, make audit mechanisms work better, and form a system of self-control. Deficiencies in the practices due to male-dominated administrations will be identified by women earlier and therefore be improved.
As the Governor's Office, we frequently and regularly bring together all public and private organizations and NGOs. Therefore, the United Nations Joint Programme to Protect and Promote the Human Rights of Women and Girls did not bring anything new to us in this respect. This is indeed our accustomed and legally mandated practice.
Considering the steps that must be taken to further enhance the rights of women and girls in Turkey, priority should be given to education of girls, providing high school education to all girls, and building students' dormitories for girls coming from the rural areas, so that they could have their high school education in comfortable environments.