Turkey: Harnessing Sustainable Linkages for SMEs in Turkey’s Textile Sector
JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS
Total Budget $2,700,000
Delivery Rate
Participating Agencies UNIDO, UNDP, ILO
Main Achievements
- An online Value Chain Management Platform (VCMP) is in preparation. A Sustainable Competitiveness Centre (SCC) was established and activated, providing business advisory services to SMEs on sustainable competitiveness.
- An assessment report on CSR in the Turkish textiles and apparel industry was produced and an overall awareness-raising strategy developed. Enterprise-level awareness building tools were produced and deployed.
- A national sustainable and responsible competitiveness agenda for the textiles and apparel industry was created.
Contact Inci Atac, JP Coordinator
Targeting SMEs in the textile sector, the largest and most labour-intensive sector in Turkey, this innovative joint programme aims at enabling the local business community to reach a state of “responsible competitiveness”, involving both upgrading the productivity and market access of firms as well as benefiting local disadvantaged communities in poor areas, including Central and South-eastern Anatolia.
The joint programme and its participating UN agencies (UNIDO, ILO and UNDP) will collaborate with Istanbul Textile and Exporters Union (ITKIB) to support the SMEs in textile sector to adopt an efficient, highly qualified and responsible management structure to raise the competitiveness of Turkish business in the national and international markets. SMEs’ technological and innovative capacities will be developed to reduce the costs of doing business for an integrated pro-poor economy through an IT based value chain management platform and create a decent work environment.