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Empowering Women in Politics: Turkey's Gender Team Initiatives

Working with political parties, women councils, KA-DER, and the Women's Coalition to increase women's participation in politics through campaigns, support programs, and media engagement. Overcoming initial reluctance to engage, the project provides visibility for women's programs, sound knowledge, and guidance on increasing women candidates. Enhancing women's participation in local politics and decision making through participatory approaches with related NGOs and media support.

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Empowering Women in Politics: Turkey's Gender Team Initiatives

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  1. Working with Partners By the Turkey CO Gender Team: Aslı Şahin Orria Goni Delzangles

  2. WOMEN in POLITICS PROJECT • Political Parties • Women Councils • KA-DER • Women’s Coalition • Media

  3. POLITICAL PARTIES • Reluctance to engage with the Project • in the beginning... • The project overcame this by • providing visibility for their women programs such as the national scale “Women in Politics Summit” • providing the parties the sound knowledge based on Public Perception Survey that they can actually “win with women.”

  4. Women Councils-SUMMIT

  5. Women Councils-SUMMIT

  6. Women Councils-SUMMIT

  7. KA-DERAssociation for Supporting and Training Women Councils

  8. KA-DER National Campaign • IS IT A MUST TO BE A MAN IN ORDER TO BECOME A PARLIAMENTARIAN???

  9. KA-DER National Campaign

  10. WOMEN’S COALITION • Women’s Coalition on “Countdown to 2007 Elections” • guidance to political parties on how to increase the number of women candidates through the application of well tested women friendly tools • Scorecard

  11. MEDIA • technical support to the media in order to keep women in politics on the electoral agenda • publicly monitor performance of the political parties

  12. VERY SOON... • ENHANCING WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION in LOCAL POLITICS and DECISION MAKING • PROJECT

  13. WOMEN in LOCAL POLITICS • Participatory Approach with... • -Related Women’s NGOs • (KA-DER and Flying Broom)

  14. Participatory Approach with... • LA-21 Programme • Women Councils, Youth Councils • (National Youth Parliament and Youth for Habitat)

  15. Participatory Approach with... • -Women’s Coalition • -Media • Reluctance of the media to cover women in politics issues??? • Local Media • National Media

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