Famous fashion designers joined hands to protect Southeastern Anatolia’s cultural heritages and to create new income opportunities for the region. 9 fashion designers (Arzu Kaprol, Hatice Gökçe, Alex Akimoğlu, Özlem Süer, Ceren Erten, Idil Tarzi, Hakan Yıldırım, Ümit Ünal and Bahar Korçan) are visiting 9 regions in the context of the “9 Designers to 9 Cities” Project executed jointly by the SouthEastern Anatolian Project and UNDP in the GAP regions and are exchanging ideas with the women in these regions and are now trying to produce using weaving techniques and embroidery specific to the regions. More >>

The urgency of moving in the direction of equal representation of men and women in the parliament has been the main focus of Local Agenda 21 women councils in 2006-7. Women councils from all over Turkey came together in Bursa-Uludağ for a national coordination meeting on 6-9 August 2007. They readied themselves to ask local authorities for more women friendly programs - a request that is largely being ignored so far. More >>

162 people in total from public institutions, non-governmental organizations and private sector took the ‘Sustainable Development Training’. The target is the evaluation of environment, economic growth and quality of human life within sectoral policies. More >>

The National Human Development Report that is being prepared in many countries around the world under the leadership of United Nations Development Programme is being prepared in Turkey this year on “Youth”. The report touches on the problems youth – that make up a large proportion of Turkey’s population – faces in their individual lives and in the society and brings suggestions for solutions as well as aiming to present the “good examples” of projects that have contributed to the change and development of youth. In this context, in order to determine these “good examples” UNDP Turkey is organizing a “Good Examples in the field of Youth” event. More >>

The theme of this year’s International Youth Day that is being celebrated every year on 12 August since 1999 was “Be Seen, Be Heard: Youth Participation for Development”. The International Youth Day that is being celebrated in many countries around the world gives the world the opportunity to notice youth’s potential, celebrates their achievements and gives the opportunity for youth to develop their own lives and the soceties they live in. More >>

With the goal of improving rural sanitary infrastructure and enhancing village-level access to safe sanitation, the Sivas Erzincan Rural Development Project has embarked on an initiative to develop sanitation systems for 13 targeted villages in the provinces of Sivas and Erzincan. More >>