Türkiye

Our association performs activities regarding
• The promotion of Foster Family system in both local and national scale,
• Adaptation of Foster Family candidates to the process by exchanging information and good practice.
• The quality improvement of the current foster family system by supporting the families and children in the system.
Within the scope of EU Ministry Civil Society Dialogue, a project called “Every child has a right to grow in a loving family” has been created in cooperation with Netherlands. As a result of the project a draft bill has been prepared and presented to Ministry of Family and Social Policies. Negotiations continue within the legislative department.
Another EU project continue in cooperation with Czech Republic, Lithuania and Belgium regarding the foster care systems worldwide and comparative analysis of foster family model practices. The project will be completed in 2017 with 4 different films and a book comprising of foster family stories in 5 languages.
As a leading civil society organization in Turkey, our association mentors the setting up CSOs in different provinces, continues its collaboration with CEOs working in child field and works towards a formation of national foster family network.

-Forced Migration and Its Effects in Diyarbakır
-development OF young PEOPLE ON lOCAL DEVELOPMENT
-rural Development Project in Egil Area
-Karacadağ Poverty Research
-Networking project on Forced Migration

Work being conducted and completed by Development
• “Guide for Development Organizations in Turkey” (February-December 2004)
(Supporting Agency: UK Embassy)
• “Development of Stock Breeding in Mesudiye District of Ordu” ( July 2005)
(Supporting Agency: Mesudiye Development Foundation)
• “Child Poverty in Turkey: Cases of İzmir and Diyarbakır” (February 2009-2010) (Supporting Agency: METU Scientific Studies Project Coordination Unit)
• In situ Monitoring of Reforestation Work along Baku-Tbilisi Pipeline (Supporting Agency: BTC)
• Turkish Union of Beekeepers Strategic Planning Work (2010)
• “Life Situations of 0-6 Years Old Children of Seasonal Agricultural Workers” ( September 2009- December 2011) (Supporting Agency: Bernard van Leer Foundation/the Netherlands)
On going work by Development Workshop
• Interventions For The Children (6-14 Age Group) Affected By The Seasonal Agricultural Immigrations (July 2011-October 2012) (Supporting Agency: The Royal Netherlands Embassy)
The Development Workshop has decided to conduct its activities under four major headings starting from 2011. These are:
1- Governance and Development
2- Social Development
3- Children and Youth
4- Institutional Capacity Building
The Development Workshop has various project ideas in the context of its main programmes.

InEnArt and its modul Sense of Time - InEnArt is an interactive platform. Visitors can explore content, leave comments and can apply to get authors themselves. InEnArt is a cooperation of various civil society initiatives, that are active in the cultural field, as well as cultural institutions and universities, who understand the unregulated exchange of information as a global, basic need. Together they are launching a social network with the aim to promote cultural diversity and to contribute to a better understanding between cultures.
The partners of InEnArt understand social networks and social software as a resource for creativity and information exchange in the cultural field.
The participation of individuals together will create new unexpected relationships and will contribute to a better understanding of national, ethnic and religious boundaries.

Justice and Peacebuilding Research Program: - Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding: Global Perspectives - NGO Conferences in Diyarbakır Mother Tongue and Pedagogy Research Program: - From Where the Wound of Language Opens: The Kurdish Question and Mother Tongue Education - Language Planning and Policies Worldwide: Multilingualism in Education Sustainable Life and Space Research Program: - Urban Planning and Participatory Policies - New Approaches in Local Development Policies Gender Equality Research Program: - Critical Masculinity Readings

We applied for Comenius School Partnership Projects but unfortunately because of the some problems we couldn't start the project.We prepared Language Learning and Global Warming projects. In addition, we organized 7-19 Age Effective Parents Education Seminars in our school and give these seminars to mainly parents of our students and the teachers who work in Diyarbakır.

We voluntarily work together as women having different social and educational backgrounds. Some of the members of our association are professionals who are obstetricians while some of us focus on midwifery, social  sciences public health, and some of us are voluntary committed mums who wish to share experiences to the other girls and women. Therefore, we have enough experience in our own professional backgrounds and we highly motivated to employ this experience to make a better touch to our sisters’s lives.
Supporting women’s right with disabilities and/or women who have limited budget is the core  passion this group. In order to ensure this goal, we technically and empirically intend to plan, develop, implement and follow-up a project upon a  “Need Recognition”  and “Case Analysis” of the whole process and the program.  A guideline will be designed according to the  needs which were established during the development of the program. The guidelines will be composed by designating the training content according to the required subjects stated at the current case analysis. At the guideline there will be prepared an instructive direction to be used before, during and the post period of the project.
Afterwards, the purpose  of the training   and the goals of the education, the content of the training, materials, methods, the measurement and the evaluation  of the training will be prepared with the all partners contributions. We are also planning to use pelvic scale model, foetus model, birth atlas, breast models and new-born baby models, at the real weights and appearance and  to be used at the simulations, training programs and the workshops, will be used firstly by us regarding other training programs operating in Turkey at this field. The interactive methods will be preferred by choosing the suitable training methods and techniques to the knowledge, manner and skill training goals. The principles for adult training will be prioritized within the content and the methods of the training program. Upon completion of the program, pamphlets that include handy and practical information will be provided to the attendants. In order to have the measurement and evaluation of the training program, the feedback forms will be prepared intended for the attendants, trainers and the project developers. Implementation of the program to the pregnant and her partner will include 100 women and/or couples.
The training will be directive through the necessary information desirable for the participants. Within the context of this program, a good communication among parties and with  health staff, ways to stop violence,  vaginal birth process, how to decrease the anxiety before the birth, baby-care, breastfeeding, maternal issues at prenatal and postpartum period will be provided to the women with disabilities and limited budget.