Empowerment of Youth for Improved e-Governance in Turkey
Project name:
00037605 - Empowerment of Youth for Improved e-Governance in Turkey
Budget: USD 99,000
Timeline: May 2005 - December 2005
What's the situation?
Half of Turkey's population is in the 0-24 age bracket. Eighteen percent of Turkey's present 71.7 million people are in the 15 to 24 age group. This demographic profile combined with information on employability and income suggests that Turkey's youth, especially those in the country's less developed regions, do not enjoy the cultural and intellectual opportunities available to their peers in other countries. Computer and Internet usage among Turkish youth is still not as prevalent as in the developed world. Turkey has very few cases where the internet and advanced communication technologies have been effectively utilized for advocacy and public action. The main reason for this is lack of opportunities that young people have in order to enhance or build their IT skills. This lack results in limited opportunities for the youth to participate in decision making, to network with other youth associations and to build skills for better access to job opportunities.
What's our mission?
With this Project, it is aimed to strengthen the ICT use capacities of local youth platforms that are established through Turkey's Local Agenda 21 Program. The project will train local youth platforms to become active users of the existing Local Agenda 21 e-Governance Web Portal and train a selected group of young people to become employable in the IT sector.
How are we doing
this?
The key element in the implementation of the project is to maintain the sustainability of the training programs and knowledge transfer as a part of the overall framework activities of the local youth platforms. The Project foresees a peer education model where the know-how of the included training programs are transferred to the local youth councils. When the know-how is present at the local level, then the training programs will be sustained at the local level with modest funding. This project strategy will also trigger transfer of know-how within the LA21 youth network from the project beneficiary target regions to other regions as an integral part of the youth's networking activities. The training methodology will be further revisited for the possibility to include an online education system to access more persons in the longer run as an exit strategy. It is expected that the activities will sustain under the overall framework of the LA21 youth activities and the trained youth will be utilized to continue training activities and transfer their knowledge to larger population in their own localities.
Who are our partners?
Microsoft
Youth Association for Habitat and Agenda 21
LA21 Youth Platforms
LA21 Partner Municipalities
How will Turkey benefit?
The primary direct beneficiaries of the project will be the
members of the LA21 youth platforms in sixty cities and the
representatives of the LA21 National Youth Parliament. 16
regions of LA21 youth platforms were selected as project target
locations. They will be namely Mardin, Trabzon, Kars, Malatya,
Elazig, Bitlis, Çanakkale, Denizli, Yalova, Konya, Antalya,
Adana, Yozgat, Bolu, Ankara, and Istanbul. Responding to this,
the estimated annual number of people to be reached and trained
are 1600. In addition to this, the project will also play
a major role in the strengthening of IT sector in project
target regions. Therefore, the ultimate beneficiaries of the
project will be the local communities which will find new
employment opportunities as the IT sector moves in at the
local level.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Mr. Hansin Dogan
Tel: (90-312) 454 1129
E-mail: hansin.dogan@undp.org
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