The third phase of the Enhancement Participatory Democracy in Turkey: Gender Equality Monitoring Project, funded by the European Union, started to be implemented by the Association for Monitoring Gender Equality (CEID) on September 1, 2023.

The project is being implemented in 11 provinces, namely Adana, Ankara, Bursa, Eskişehir, Gaziantep, Hatay, İstanbul, İzmir, Mersin, Samsun and Trabzon.

Objectives of the Project

The project is designed to increase the monitoring capacities and awareness of civil society organizations, to enable them to incorporate a gender equality perspective into their monitoring activities, and to support local governments, especially municipalities, to present their policy formulation, implementation and monitoring processes from a gender equality perspective.

Another objective of the Gender Equality Monitoring Project is to develop a culture of cooperation and joint work among civil society organizations, academia, trade unions, professional organizations working for the public good, bar associations and local governments working to ensure gender equality.

Project Tag

Project Name: Enhancement of Participatory Democracy in Turkey: Monitoring Gender Equality Project Phase III
Short Name: CEIDizler
Project Duration: 42 months (1 September 2023 – 28 February 2027)
Project Provinces: Adana, Ankara, Bursa, Gaziantep, Hatay, İstanbul, İzmir, Trabzon, Eskişehir, Mersin and Samsun
Funding: Funded by the European Union.

Project Target Groups

• CSOs engaged in gender equality and rights-based activities,
• Academics and academic units of universities working on gender issues,
• Professional organizations with public benefit status,
• Municipalities and local gender equality units and city councils,
• Gender equality related units and experts of trade unions.

The second phase of the Enhancement of Participatory Democracy in Turkey: Monitoring Gender Equality Project, funded by the European Union, was implemented by the Association for Monitoring Gender Equality (CEİD) between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2022 in 9 provinces, namely Adana, Ankara, Gaziantep, Istanbul, Izmir, Trabzon, Eskişehir, Mersin and Samsun.

The project known shortly as CEİDizler pursues the following objectives: Enhancing indicator-based monitoring capacity and awareness of civil society organizations with their focus on gender equality; encouraging organizations engaged in rights-based monitoring to incorporate a gender perspective into their work; supporting local governments in developing, implementing, and monitoring their policies from a gender equality perspective; and encouraging the adoption of the approach of indicators-based gender equality monitoring by civil organizations, local governments and the public sector.

Project Objectives

The following are envisaged for mainstreaming gender equality and strengthening participatory democracy in Turkey:

• Supporting the incorporation of international norms and standards developed for GE into legislation, enforcement, and monitoring policies in Turkey;
• Mapping and reporting of GE-related problem areas;
• Contributing to the institutionalization of an independent, scientific, and mainstreamed rights-based monitoring strategy in Turkey by developing gender-sensitive monitoring indicators;
• Contributing to the realization of gender equality through gender-sensitive and rights-based monitoring;
• Encouraging civil and public organizations to support and adopt this approach in their own work in order to promote the indicator-based monitoring of GE;
• Increasing the capacity of local rights-based civil society organizations, local governments, public interest organizations, academia and trade unions for rights-based monitoring sensitive to GE;
• Supporting civil society organizations engaged in advocacy activities in this field and, in the longer term, creating a large network of civil organizations engaged in rights-based monitoring in Turkey.

Project Tag

Project Name: Enhancement of Participatory Democracy in Turkey: Monitoring Gender Equality Project Phase II
Short Name: CEİD İzler
Project Duration: 36 months (1 January 2020 – 31 December 2022)
Project Provinces: Adana, Ankara, Gaziantep, İstanbul, İzmir, Trabzon, Eskişehir, Mersin and Samsun
Funding: Funded by the European Union.

Project Target Groups

• Local Equality Monitoring Platforms (LOGEMPs),
• CSOs engaged in gender equality and rights-based activities,
• Academics and academic units of universities working on gender issues,
• Professional organizations with public benefit status,
• Municipalities and local gender equality units,
• Gender equality related units and experts of trade unions.