Turkey: Growth with Decent Work for All
JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS
Total Budget $3,980,000
Delivery Rate
Participating Agencies IOM, UNDP, FAO, ILO
Main Achievements
- A National Technical Team was established as a participatory and multi‐stakeholder mechanism. Training programs were conducted to develop members’ capacity. The final draft of the National Youth Employment Action Plan was produced, awaiting approval and adoption.
- To provide support for unemployed youth, the JP conducted labor market research and developed a communication strategy to increase awareness about the Turkish Employment Agency (ISKUR) and its services. The delivery of vocational trainings for unemployed youth is under way.
- Training of Trainers programs were delivered to 27 staff from ISKUR in three modules, and cascaded trainings are planned for both ISKUR staff and for unemployed youth.
Contact Halide Caylan, Focal Point
The overall objective of the Joint Program (JP) is adoption and implementation of employment policies benefiting the most vulnerable groups in the labor market within the context of Turkey’s east-west migration. The JP aims to reduce youth unemployment among vulnerable migrant communities and increase the participation of women in the labor force.
This will be achieved through improved capacities at national and local levels to design and implement employment interventions for vulnerable communities and women. A Youth Employment Action Plan will lay the policy, budgetary and institutional framework for this objective. Results will be the percentage increase in placements of young unemployed into decent jobs; and the percentage of women among them, contributing directly to the realization of the localized MDG targets 1.B and 3.2. The JP will serve as an example to global efforts to link economic growth to decent work creation for those most vulnerable in the labor market.