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The Black Sea Box was produced and distributed by Every Drop Matters (EDM) which is a partnership between The Coca-Cola Company and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The Box includes over 50 games and comes with a comprehensive Teacher's Manual.
The Black Sea Box was initiated in Turkey but was prepared in two languages: Turkish and English. In Turkey,
2000 boxes were distributed through the coastal cities of the Black Sea.
Russian and Ukrainian versions of the Black Sea Box were then prepared.
In Ukraine, more than 1400 sets of the Box were disseminated and 1000 copies of Black Sea Box were distributed in Russia. The Russian version of the Black Sea Box was launched in Sochi at a high-profile event with the attendance of Ban Ki-moon.
EDM is currently developing the Black Sea Box for Romania and Bulgaria and will soon start the work for Georgia.
International recognition
The feedback on the project has been positive and highly enthusiastic. Teachers, members of the regional departments of the Ministry of Education and scientists all underlined the relevance of the topic to the Black Sea region.
They emphasized the timeliness of the project and how user-friendly they found all the materials.
At Expo 2012, in Yeosu (Korea), the Black Sea Box was recognized as one of 11 projects showing global best practice on water.
The preparations for pulling out the ghost nets from the sea are completed and the dives are started under the context of the project, which is being conducted by Gökova Sailing Club.
Studies can be followed on the website
All the developments related to the studies can be followed on the internet website, www.hayaletag.com , which is established under the project’s context.
www.hayaletag.com includes detailed information about the project, data on the ghost net problem and the news on the project.
The change in the field that project created and the differentiation against the local economy in supply-demand balances are being determined by the survey under the support of the Strengthening the System of Marine and Coastal Protected Areas of Turkey Project and GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) – COMDEKS.
The change created by the project is being measured
The survey by SAD is being conducted in the Datça-Bozburun Special Environmental Protection Area (SEPA) by the experts.
The change and the impact of the project are being measured and the points of reference to fix measures and methods are being determined for the productivity increase for the future studies.
Both consciousness and responsibility
The capacity of the local residents to take role and responsibility in the marine protection activities are also being determined by the survey study. Creating awareness on the endangered species is also targeted with the survey.
The developments related to the project can be followed on www.birbalikcokbalik.org internet website.
The training and presentations that is composed of two modules, were previously given to the civil servants were used in the e-learning implementation.
The participants receive certification
The first module consists of “Introduction to the Protected Areas, Bio-diversity and the Marine Protection Areas” titles.
The second module includes “Business Development Unit Training, Environmental Economy, Marine Bio-diversity, Financial Sustainability, Marketing and Natural Resources Inventory and Management”.
The participants who complete the lessons will receive certificate.
This year’s theme of the conference was ‘Transforming the Education’.
Dr. Ömer Açıkgöz, General Director for Vocational and Technical Education of Ministry of National Education participated to the conference.
Promoting Energy Efficiency in Buildings project as the best practice
Mr Açıkgöz made a presentation at panel on Recent Developments and Expectations in Vocational Education, focusing on issues such as professions and skills map of Turkey, EUROPASS certification of 650 profession prepared by the ministry, restructuring in secondary education, training the trainers and managers on vocational and technical education, Vocational and Technical Education Strategy Document and Action Plan.
In addition to that, he promoted best practices in education that Ministry of National Education conducts or is a partner of.
Promoting Energy Efficiency in Buildings project, which is implemented by General Directorate of Renewable Energy of Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources together with UNDP with the financial support of GEF, was also took part as one of the best practices.
National Education and Environment and Urbanization are other partners of the project.
Three demo building are on their way
Within the scope of Promoting Energy Efficiency in Buildings project, the design of three demo buildings are conducting within the framework of integrated building design approach, taking the sustainability as basis.
Two of the demo buildings will be constructed in Eryaman region of Ankara and will be used as a "Renewable Energy Technical Vocational High School" by the Ministry of National Education.
The school buildings will be consisting of two parts: building of the class rooms and an atelier building.
The third building, on the other hand, is designing for the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization as Sincan-Etimesgut Region Service Building of the General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre.
For further information: www.surdurulebilirbinalar.net
Both social networks and mobile technologies have provided new communication channels that have generated global support for social and political movements and assisted in helping to mobilize people at the local level.
With usage of mobile and other information communication technologies (ICTs) expanding rapidly in the developing world, new avenues of participation, engagement, and accountability are emerging.
This opens the potential for transforming the relationship between people and governments and thus lead to the emergence of a new 'social contract’.
People's voices are increasingly being heard across the world through new media channels.
And, for the first time, many of them are actively participating in governance and conflict transformation processes.
Within this context, Community of Practice (CoP) meeting organized in İstanbul intends to strengthen both ICTD/e-governance and Conflict prevention community of practices while developing strategies and mechanisms that will foster joint work across them.
More specifically, the meeting deepened the understanding of the work UNDP and national partners have been doing ICTs, governance and conflict prevention.
The three day CoP meeting was conducted in a highly interactive manner. It also sought to actively facilitate South-South exchange among participants.
What were the outcomes?
A total of approximately 60 people from 55 or so countries from UNDP country office staff, national counterparts, and resource persons participated to the CoP.
At the end of the CoP meeting, the UNDP ICTs, Governance and conflict guidance note was revized and communication and coordination between ICT, e-governance, and conflict prevention communities of practice leading to practical and tangible collaboration and joint initiatives was increased.
The meeting was also aimed to enhance the South-South cooperation and intra-regional collaboration.
Training on “Project Cycle Management” targeting forest engineers working in public institutions, private sector and NGOs was conducted by Chamber of Forest Engineers in collaboration with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
In four weeks training, participants were informed on project preparation, logical framework, monitoring and evaluation, communication, fundraising and budgeting as a part of project cycle management as well as on forest management and MDGs.
74 trainees received their certificates at a ceremony organized in Ankara on 6 May 2013.
Ali Küçükaydın, Head of Chamber of Forest Engineers; FAO Turkey representative Mustapha Sinaceur; UNDP Turkey Programme Manager Dr. Leyla Şen, trainees working in Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs, Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, General Directorate of Forestry and forest engineers working in private sector participated to the ceremony.
This training is considered as one of the most comprehensive training targeting forest engineers.
In order to listen the comments of the trainees on Project Cycle Management Training, please watch the video.
AKD is given the prize for its efforts on providing and increasing the Gökova Special Environmental Protection Area No-Fishing Zones’ effectiveness by participation of the local fishers.
AKD is the implementing NGO of the different projects under the support of the Strengthening the System of Marine and Coastal Protected Areas of Turkey Project and GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP),
AKD Chairman Mr. Zafer Kızılkaya was presented the Whitley Award, known as “Green Oscar”. AKD is the implementing NGO of the different projects under the support of Strengthening the System of Marine and Coastal Protected Areas of Turkey Project (PIMS 3697) by the implementation of the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization General Directorate of Natural Assets Protection and UNDP with the support of GEF-SGP.
Award was granted due to AKD’s efforts on providing and increasing the Gökova Special Environmental Protection Area No-Fishing Zones’ effectiveness by participation of the local fishers.
Dr. Çağan Şekercioğlu from Kuzey Doğa Society received his first Whitley Gold Award in 2008, and on this occasion, he received the 20th Anniversary Whitley Gold Award, a recognition for outstanding past winners who have made a significant contribution to global conservation, in this case for the creation of Turkey’s First Wildlife Corridor.
Çağan Şekercioğlu was selected to be granted to this award among 167 outstanding past Whitley Award winners in the last 20 years. In other words, Çağan Şekercioğlu was selected as the most successful Whitley Award winner of the last 20 years for putting Turkey on the conversation map.
Dr. Çagan Şekercioğlu of the Kuzey Doğa Society (North Nature Society) has played a key role in gaining international Ramsar recognition for the Kuyucuk Lake in Turkey -home to 227 different bird species- and also initiated the country’s first-ever wildlife corridor for large carnivores with the support of GEF Small Grant Programme.
The Princess Royal presented the award
The ceremony was made at the Royal Geographical Society and the prize was presented to Kızılkaya by the Princess Royal.
“Every winner has a close connection with their community, as well as experience and an understanding of the issues which often relate to human-wildlife conflict, but they also know how to make an impact through practical solutions, engaging people and initiating change at government level. That’s a rare skill. Let’s face it, there are ‘experts’ out there, who don’t always have that skill, but the Whitley Award winners do”, said the Princess Royal.
Conducting many projects
Establishing marine ranger system, which includes the local fishermen to increase the effectiveness of the control in the no-fishing zones of the Gökova Special Environment Protection Area and “Traditional Fishing” projects are among the projects conducted by AKD.
To watch the interview of Zafer Kızılkaya and Çağan Şekercioğlu with BBC Türkçe, click on thislink.
For the online speeches of winners:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB_THPX7Uh8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqgm9A6OxFs
According to the first results from ‘My World’ survey, to which over 560,000 citizens from 194 countries participated, “a good education”, “better health care” and “an honest and responsive government” are the top trending issues.
‘My World’, the United Nations global survey for a better world (www.myworld2015.org) is a groundbreaking initiative inviting citizens to virtually take their seat at the UN and participate in the global conversation on the next development agenda by voting in an option-based survey.
Over 560,000 citizens from 194 countries have already voted for the issues that would make the most difference to their lives, providing, for the first time ever, real-time and real-world intelligence on what people think about the biggest challenges facing them and their families.
From Rwanda to Philippines and Mexico City to Amman and Madrid; across schools, mosques, offices and refugee camps, citizens have been turning out in their hundreds of thousands to vote and help define a better world for all.
Initial results from this survey have been released on May as the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Panel for the post-2015 dialogue meets in New York to submit their recommendations on the future international development agenda.
Real time results from MY World are also being presented on a regular basis to the UN Secretary-General and the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development.
To date, 57% of the votes have been collected offline, 35% though the website and around the 8% have come through mobile phone.
What are global citizens saying?
Participants in ‘My World’ are asked to select which six out of sixteen issues are most important for them and their families.
Results to date reveal that voters’ top three priorities are “a good education”, “better healthcare” and “an honest and responsive government”.
“Access to water and sanitation” and “nutritious and affordable food” are also perceived by people as being of key importance to improving their lives.
Citizens voting predominantly for health and education reveal the continuing relevance of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which recently observed the 1000 day milestone to their 2015 target date.
‘My World’ represents an entry point for people to build on MDG achievements and help define an ambitious development agenda after 2015 that has poverty eradication and sustainable development at its core.
The ‘Let’s Do It!’ campaign aims to raise awareness about environmental issues and to show that every individual can contribute and make a difference to the communities they live in.
United Nations Volunteers (UNV) also joined to the campaign and organized the activities in Ankara.
Metropolitan Municipality of Ankara, ITC Invest Trading & Consulting AG., Türkiad and TEMA supported the campaign together with UNV in Ankara, during which 250 volunteers in Ankara gathered together to clean up the waste in Muhye Village.
“In the morning of the campaign it was raining, I was worried volunteers would not participate. However, when I arrived to the meeting point, I met with excited volunteers of different ages with their rain coats and umbrellas. To experience their enthusiasm to collect waste under the rain motivated me for a long time to come”, says UNV programme assistant Burcu Tamgac Morel.
The campaign took place for the first time in 2008 in Estonia.
This year, Turkey was one of almost 100 countries that participated to the campaign with some countries such as Bosnia Herzegovina mobilizing over 40,000 people and Kosovo 60,000 people.
“Although 6000 volunteers all around Turkey is good, I believe that we can aim higher number of volunteers for next year’s event”, Burcu says.
The meeting began with the Project Steering Committee – Local Advisory Committee joint meeting held in Şanlıurfa.
After the meeting in which examples of best practices at regional and national levels, necessities and priorities were shared, Sadrettin Karahocagil, the president of GAP Regional Development Administration, gave thank you plaques to all stakeholders which have been supporting the project until today.
After the ceremony, Argande 2013-2014 Fall/Winter Collection was showcased with the choreography of Bilge Tuğsuz.
Şanlıurfa, Mardin and 19 May ÇATOM atelier in Batman where Argande products are manufactured were visited by project partners.
The meeting of workers at the atelier who were manufacturing new Argande collection and the fashion designers who support the project by designing Argande products had widespread regional and national media coverage.
While project partners visited Batman, the catalogue shooting for Argande 2013-2014 Fall/Winter Collection was held in Mardin.
Models including Sema Şimşek who is the face of the brand, posed with new Argande designs to photographer Gencer Bavbek.
Photo: Billur Saatçi
The fund is implemented by the cooperation of Anadolu Efes, Ministry of Culture and Tourism and United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in order to support the local economy and development through sustainable tourism
The fund attracted intensive attention from all around Turkey.
More than 250 fund applications were received from 60 provinces to the call for proposal.
The projects which are found successful entitled to participate to Sustainable Tourism and Project Development Workshop on 29-30 May in Istanbul.
These projects are:
For detailed information, visit www.gelecekturizmde.com
The GAP EEIC will be located in the premises of Gaziantep Organized Industrial Zone.
It will not only be a centre that will embrace the incumbent Energy Efficiency Consultancy Companies (ESCOs), but will also be a centre of excellence that will provide consultancy services for assessment of energy efficiency potentials and development/deployment of energy efficiency measures in industrial facilities, public buildings, private residences and service sector buildings.
Upon completion of the legislative formalities, selection of the incumbent ESCOs and refurbishment, the centre will be established and made operational in the second fortnight of 2013.
More favorable business environment for entrepreneurs with the centre
Coordinated by the GAP Regional Development Administration through the technical assistance of the UNDP, one of the priorities of the Utilization of Renewable Energy Resources and Increasing Energy Efficiency in Southeast Anatolia Region (REEE) Project is to facilitate establishment of ESCOs in the Region.
Currently there are no ESCOs established in the Southeast Anatolia Region, where ESCO services are rendered by companies, established in other provinces of Turkey.
One of the main reasons behind non-existence of ESCOs in the region is the high cost of testing and measurement equipment that such companies need to have in their possession.
Thus establishment of the incubation center, at which prospective ESCOs can access to the required testing equipment at affordable cost, is considered to be a solution that would create a more favorable business environment for entrepreneurs in the region.
As such, the budget of the project included sufficient funds for the establishment and operationalization of the incubation center and covering some operational costs for a certain period of time until the financial sustainability of the center is secured.
“Beginning her second four-year-term as administrator of the lead agency in the UN development system, Clark sits atop a US$5.8 billion annual budget and a staff of 8,000 in 177 countries. Her solution to sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction includes big investments in gender equality and reproductive health,” it said. “Before becoming UNDP's first female head in 2009, Clark was the first elected female Prime Minister of New Zealand.”
Helen Clark was ranked 21st on the list of 100, which includes German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Gates Foundation co-chair Melinda Gates, US First lady Michelle Obama, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in the top spots.
In April, the United Nations General Assembly confirmed her appointment by the Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, as UNDP Administrator for a second four-year term.
Helen Clark took up her post as Administrator of UNDP in April 2009 after serving three consecutive terms as Prime Minister of New Zealand.
She is the first woman to lead the UN's global development network and chairs the UN Development Group.
“During my second term, sustainable human development and poverty eradication will continue to be at the heart of what UNDP does,” she said at the time of her reappointment.
“I will remain firmly focused on MDG achievement and on accelerating efforts up to 2015 and beyond. I look forward to implementing this vision and to making UNDP an ever more transparent, accountable, and effective organization.”
Foreign Policy magazine, in its May-June 2013 issue, included Helen Clark in “The FP Power Map: The 500 most powerful people on the planet”, while American University this week ranked her among its top 20 Women Changing the World.
“No musical art form is more powerful as a diplomatic tool than jazz,” said the Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Irina Bokova in her message for the International Day, observed each year on 30 April.
“For over a century jazz – the universal language of passion and benevolence – has united people of disparate cultures, religions, and nationalities, fostered and strengthened communication and partnerships among heterogeneous groups,” she said, adding that jazz has also enhanced the peace-making process and demonstrated just how much all people have in common.
Born in the city of the United States city of New Orleans at the beginning of the 20th century, jazz is rooted in African traditions, draws from European musical forms, and has evolved into various styles across the globe.
International Jazz Day events, which are organized by UNESCO and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, seek to spotlight the historic influence the genre has had in connecting people and igniting social change.
Famous pianist and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Diane Reeves, Marcus Miller, Al Jarreau, Joss Stone, Terri Lyne Carrington, Hugh Masekela and many other musicians took part in the concert in Istanbul which is directed by John Beasley.
Ban said in his message for the International Day for Biological Diversity: ‘Although seemingly abundant, only a tiny amount of the water on our planet is easily available as freshwater. We live in an increasingly water insecure world where demand often outstrips supply and where water quality often fails to meet minimum standards. Under current trends, future demands for water will not be met.’
“Biodiversity and the ecosystem services it provides are central to achieving the vision of a water secure world,” Mr. Ban said, noting the mutually supporting roles of forests, wetlands and soil biodiversity.
“Integrating nature-based solutions into urban planning can also help us build better water futures for cities, where water stresses may be especially acute given the rapid pace of urbanization,” he added.
This year’s theme for the Day is ‘Water and Biodiversity’, which coincides with the UN designation of 2013 as International Year of Water Cooperation.
FAO’s Food Price Index, which measures monthly changes in international prices of a basket of meat, dairy, cereals, oils and fats, and sugar, rose two points to 215.5 in April, up one percent from March.
The slight boost was driven mainly by a spike in dairy prices due mainly to a lull in milk production in New Zealand, the world’s largest producer.
The FAO Cereal Price Index slipped 10 points or 4.1 percent in April to 235 points, but it still 11 points higher than in April 2012.
The rising trend for cereals is forecasted to last throughout the year, barring unusual weather conditions.
Coarse grain production is expected to set a new record at 1.266 million tons in 2013.
The Rome-based agency predicts that global wheat production will reach 695 million tons, up 5.4 per cent from last year’s harvest and just short of the 672 million record level in 2011.
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Global Employment Trends for Youth 2013: A generation at risk attributes that high number to persistent unemployment, a proliferation of temporary jobs and growing youth discouragement in advanced economies; and poor quality, informal, subsistence jobs in developing countries.
The report emphasizes that the long-term impact of the youth employment crisis could be felt for decades and calls for creative and wide-ranging policy solutions to address the problem.
The report, published by the International Labour Organization (ILO), states that the weakening of the global recovery in 2012 and 2013 has further aggravated the youth jobs crisis and the queues for available jobs have become longer and longer for some unfortunate young jobseekers.
“So long, in fact, that many youth are giving up on the job search. The prolonged jobs crisis also forces the current generation of youth to be less selective about the type of job they are prepared to accept, a tendency that was already evident before the crisis”, says the report.
Youth unemployment rate to be 12.8% in 2018
The global youth unemployment rate, which had decreased from 12.7 per cent in 2009 to 12.3 per cent in 2011, increased again to 12.4 per cent in 2012, and has continued to grow to 12.6 per cent in 2013.
A positive trend was observed in Turkey where the youth unemployment rate in 2012 was 17.5 per cent compared with 25.3 per cent in 2009 and 20.0 per cent in 2007.
By 2018 the global youth unemployment rate is projected to rise to 12.8 per cent, with growing regional disparities, as expected improvements in advanced economies will be offset by increases in youth unemployment in other regions, mainly in Asia.
In this part, we talk about "Let’s Do It" campaign organized every year in all around the world, including Turkey, for a huge clean-up event in one day.
UNDP Turkey: This is the New Horizons podcast of United Nations Development Programme in Turkey. In this programme, we will talk about ‘Let’s Do It’ campaign organized every year in Turkey and all around the world for a huge clean-up action in one day. And our contributor is Can Yalvaç. Welcome.
Can Yalvaç (C.Y.): Thank you.
UNDP Turkey: You are a member of ‘Let’s Do It Turkey’ group and a United Nations volunteer, thus as member of United Nations Volunteers (UNV), you are a part of this campaign. Let’s talk about the “Let’s do it” campaign. It is estimated that there are 100 million tons of solid waste in the world to be collected and recycled and this campaign has been organized since 2008. Well, how and where did this campaign start? What were the main purposes of the campaign?
C.Y.: Of course. This campaign was first organized in Estonia in 2008. Approximately twenty volunteers started this campaign, but then in a very short period, 50 thousand people mobilized in five hours to clean up the country.
UNDP Turkey: So it began with approximately twenty volunteers and 50 thousand people volunteers participated to the campaign. Is the campaign organized on 11 May every year?
C.Y.: Every year, every country organizes this campaign on different days. Since 2008, approximately 96 countries have organized 115 activities with around 7 million volunteers.
UNDP Turkey: It is important to emphasize that the campaign first started in Estonia. And for five years, this campaign has been organized in so many countries and millions of volunteers have taken part in it. What were the outcomes after these activities?
C.Y.: In Estonia, a clean-up activity which would cost 22,5 million Euro and would take three and a half years, was achieved in five hours costed only 50 thousand Euro.
UNDP Turkey: With 50 thousand volunteers…
C.Y.: And also it costed only 50 thousand Euro.
UNDP Turkey: Only 50 thousand Euro.
C.Y.: Yes. And additionally, it is realized that the waste collected in the campaign can be used in producing energy and for smart agriculture methods.
UNDP Turkey: Again, it should be noted that ‘Let’s Do It’ campaign started in Estonia in 2008. On 3 March 2008, 50 thousand people came together and collected the waste in their neighborhood which costed only 50 thousand Euro, instead of 22,5 million Euro.
C.Y.: And it took 5 hours instead of three and a half years.
UNDP Turkey: So, normally collecting that amount of waste would take three and a half years. But it was realized with 50 thousand volunteers and 50 thousand Euro.
C.Y.: In one day.
UNDP Turkey: And tons of waste was collected in a couple of hours. In this sense, we can understand the purpose of the campaign. It aims to show how a social and environmental difference can be made in a one-day activity with volunteers and a common action. How about Turkey? How did Turkey join this campaign?
C.Y.: In Turkey, the first activity was organized in five different cities with 500 volunteers in 2012. Three tons of waste were collected and one ton of them is recycled. Moreover, this year, the campaign will mobilize more than 1,500 volunteers in more than five different cities, one town. More than sixteen cities will join the campaign and this number is increasing day by day as well as more volunteers, more non-governmental organizations, companies and municipalities are supporting the campaign.
UNDP Turkey: So starting with five cities, the campaign is now organized in sixteen cities. And we can say that the number of volunteers is increasing significantly. At this point, it should be emphasized that United Nations Volunteers (UNV) starts supporting the campaign this year in Turkey, doesn’t it?
C.Y.: Yes. This year, United Nations Volunteers (UNV) supports the campaign by organizing an activity in Ankara and Ankara Metropolitan Municipality and ITC company support the process of recycling the waste collected within the campaign.
UNDP Turkey: The clean-up action will take place in Ankara on 11 May on Saturday. It is organized by United Nations Volunteers by the cooperation of Ankara Metropolitan Municipality and also by ‘Let’s Do It Turkey’ group. Can you tell us about the activity in Ankara? What will happen during day?
C.Y.: Of course. A general clean-up activity which is organized by volunteers, companies and Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, will take place in Mühye village on 11 May. Although the general activity will be organized in Mühye, there will be other activities within the campaign in Ankara on the same day. The activity in Mühye will start on 11.00 and Municipality will provide a shuttle service which will take off on 10.00. The activity is not time-limited. You can spend as much time as you want. You can stay just for one hour or for the whole day. The aim is to collect waste and transfer them to recycling facility with the help of Municipality.
UNDP Turkey: Yes. Actually the campaign is not about only mobilizing, collecting waste and cleaning up the neighborhood. It also aim to stress the importance of volunteerism. This campaign is organized once in a year. It took place in five different cities, such as Üsküdar and Adalar in Istanbul, Burdur, Mudurnu which is a province of Bolu and Amasya. 1,300 people participated to last year’s activity and they collected 13 tons of waste. These data belong to 2012, but in 2013, a group of volunteers keep preparing the activity. Which cities are joined this year to the campaign?
C.Y.: This year, Greece, Mongolia and Ukraine will join the campaign. As I said, 96 countries have already organized activities within the campaign. I think Turkey has the potential to organize an event that could make a difference as much as the total of these five countries.
UNDP Turkey: If it can be well organized and volunteers can be mobilized.
C.Y.: Definitely.
UNDP Turkey: To get more information about and participate in ‘Let’s Do It Turkey’ campaign, you can visit letsdoitturkiye.org or follow on facebook.com/letsdoitturkiye. Those who want to contribute this conversation can share their opinions by using #haydiyapalim and #yeniufuklar hashtags on Twitter. What do people have to do to participate in the campaign and organize clean-up activities in their communities? How can they connect to you?
C.Y.: It is so easy. As you mentioned, if they visit www.letsdoitturkiye.org, they find three options. One option is ‘be volunteer’ and you can register to support us and everybody. The second option is ‘waste map’ to identify the place you want to be cleaned.
UNDP Turkey: One more important thing to be noted is that it is estimated that there are approximately 100 million tons of waste around the world. And it should be accepted as an issue not only related to aesthetics, but also health, natural life, solidarity and responsibility. This waste should be seen as resources waiting for being utilized. In this sense, the relation between the purpose of the campaign and sustainable development becomes more obvious. Which new cities in Turkey will join the campaign?
C.Y.: Lots of cities including İzmir, Trabzon, Ankara, İstanbul, Edirne and Bursa.
UNDP Turkey: Yes, these are some of the cities which will join the campaign this year for the first time. The campaign which is organized by ‘Let’s Do It Turkey’, will take place on 11th of May on Saturday. Those who want to join this campaign supported by United Nations Volunteers can get more information on letsdoitturkiye.org and facebook.com/letsdoitturkiye. We have talked about ‘Let’s Do It’ campaign in this programme and our contributor is Can Yalvaç, a volunteer of ‘Let’s Do It Turkey’ group and United Nations Volunteers. Thank you so much to join our programme.
C.Y.: Thank you.
UNDP Turkey: And we have come to the end of this episode of New Horizons which is prepared by United Nations Development Programme UNDP Turkey. This program has been recorded at the studio of Radyo İlef of Ankara University Communications Department. You can follow our program on iTunes under podcasts, on FM frequency in İstanbul, on Açık Radyo (Open Radio) on internet, on nearly fifty Police radios and also on university radios in our broadcasting network and on undp.org.tr. Our user name for social media is undpturkiye. Hope to see you soon, good bye!
In this part, we talk about the success story of “Innovations for Women's Empowerment in Southeast Anatolia” project and of regional textile design brand ‘Argande’ which was created within this project.
UNDP Turkey: This is the New Horizons podcast of United Nations Development Programme in Turkey. In this programme, we will talk about success story of “Innovations for Women's Empowerment in Southeast Anatolia” project implemented jointly by Southeastern Anatolia Project Regional Development Administration, UNDP Turkey and Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. The project completed its first phase and started its second phase in July 2012. The brand “Argande”, which was created within this project, has been changing so many women’s lives. (Music). Since its establishment, Argande appeared on the fashion weeks organized in Istanbul, however, in May 2013, for the first time Argande organized a runway show in Şanlıurfa where the brand was born. We will talk about this runway show hosting the music we are hearing now. Argande has been providing the chance of earning income for many women working in the production process and thus, women have been empowered socially. Between 2008 and 2012, with the activities supported by the project 3,700 women earned income. After its establishment, Argande provided employment opportunities for 40 women and more than 150 women earned money with pieceworks. The project provided support for 44 Multifunctional Community Centers (ÇATOM) and 10 local initiatives in realizing capacity building and market connections and buying equipments and raw materials. The Argande collections were designed by the leading fashion designers in Turkey. Şükran Altun, the director of Yeşeren Düşler Company, tells the major changings happened in Batman after the implementation of project.
Şükran Altun (Ş.A.): Before this project, I firstly started to work in ÇATOM. In 2009, we established the company and atelier of Argande and then we assembled an education line with 50 women to teach the manufacturing process. After they learned the process, they started to work at the atelier. They manufactured so many beautiful textile products. With the end of this production period, we decided to start contract manufacturing. Gönül Sulargil supported our decision and an investor came to Batman with reference to her efforts. This is how we established the first factory in Batman with the investor. Then women who worked at atelier and ÇATOM, started to work in this factory.
UNDP Turkey: Recently women are manufacturing the 2013-2014 Fall/Winter collections of leading fashion designers. How many women have been employed in this atelier? What is the major contribution of this atelier to economy of region? Şükran Altun answers these questions:
Ş.A.: The atelier of Argande was established to provide employment opportunities for women. Until now, 5.000 people including both women and men have the chance of having a job. I say both women and men because not only women but men also have been participating in our trainings. We need men workers to carry out the hard work or ironing. It is a very importing thing to give employment opportunities for 5.000 people. When we firstly established the atelier, there were not any atelier or any other establishment for texile production in Batman. But today, almost 18 textile factories and almost 60 textile ateliers were founded. They demand personnel from us and we employ groups of people for a period of three to six months to work at education line and learn the manufacturing process and then start to work in these factories. Thus, as we improve our brand Argande, we took the initiative to create more employment opportunities for women.
UNDP Turkey: For women in Southeast Anatolia, the ateliers of Argande are not only the places for earning income while project has improved the lives of these women as they are empowered socially by the project which makes their dreams come true. Fatma Şimşek who moved to her hometown Batman from Istanbul with her children after she divorced with her husband, tells us that her life has been changed and now she has the power to shape her own life.
Fatma Şimşek (F.Ş.): So many things have been changed in my life after I started to work for Argande. The most important change is that I can send my children to school now. I started to live in my own apartment. It is almost impossible for a woman in East to earn money and live alone with her children. But I believed I can make all these things happen. I say that I will make it, I will succeed it and I will stand on my own legs with getting support. The supports encourage people to gain self-confidence and strength to move on. I overcame all these difficulties and now I send my children to school and live in my own apartment.
UNDP Turkey: Şükran Altun, director of ÇATOM in Batman and Yeşeren Düşler Company, tells the story of a woman whose life has been changed by Argande:
Ş.A.: There was a girl who was so introvert and her father and mother never led her go out and treated her like a dirt. After she joined Argande, I sent her a literacy course for a month. After she saw the women who work in manifucturing process and earn money and stand on their own legs, she wanted to work at atelier. After she completed the one-month training, she started to work and earn money. She gave her first wage to her father and he bought a wardrobe to put their clothes as they did not have any wardrobe in their house. Then, they had a very old and monochrome television and they bought a new television with her wages. She told me that she wants to thank me and kiss my hands. I asked her why she wants to do these and she told me that with my help, she brings money to her house and her father started to ask her opinions to take advice. She said that her father started to appreciate her and set her above her brothers. Her life has been changed largely and we see these changes in family relations as family members start to respect the women in the family. As a matter of fact, women who apply to us for support, are the ones who are subjected to violence or divorced or belittled at home. And with our support, they start to earn money, stand on their own legs and gain their self-confidence.
UNDP Turkey: We listened Şükran Altun from ÇATOM in Batman. You can get more information about Argande project and follow the recent developments on http://www.argande.com/. The next question is that how are the women whose lives are changed with the project treated in society? Fatma Şimşek tells:
F.Ş.: Men are surprised and say “What happened to you that you gain the right to speak”. It is unusual that a woman can express her thoughts against other men, but now she believes that she has the right to say what she wants and what she think to her husband, to her father, to her brother and to her family.
UNDP Turkey: Therefore, the initiatives supported by “Innovations for Women's Empowerment in Southeast Anatolia” project and Argande make women hold on to the life. Şükran Altun shares a crucial information that reflects the impacts of these kind of projects on women in Southeast Anatolia:
Ş.A.: Between 1997-1998, the rate of suicide attempts was very high in Batman. In these times, every ÇATOM center served for nine districts and no suicide attempts were happened in these districts while the women who attempt suicide, suffer depression or have no self-confidence came to us. We convinced them to move on their lives by giving them their economic freedom and supporting them to become socialized.
UNDP Turkey: The clothes manifuctured by women in Batman are designed voluntarily by famous fashion designers working in Istanbul. Hatice Gökçe, Özgür Masur Gamze Saraçoğlu, Mehtap Elaidi, Gül Ağış ve Nihan Peker are among these famous designers. As its Fall/Winter collection was displayed on the runway during Mercedes-Benz Istanbul Fashion Week, Argande organized its last runway show in the beginning of May in Şanlıurfa.
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UNDP Turkey: You listened a part from the music of Argande’s runway show in Şanlıurfa. Argande collections are put up for sale via Mudo Stores and online sales channel Markafoni. Gamze Saraçoğlu, one of these volunteer fashion designers who support the project, also participated in the runway show in Şanlıurfa. Gamze Saraçoğlu tells the design process of Argande collections:
Gamze Saraçoğlu: Actually the most important thing is designing marketable products to support these women who manufacture these clothes as these products should be sold to manufacture new products and provide more labour power. To design marketable products, I prefer to design the most saled products of my collection with more comfortable fabrics for Argande because I think the main aim is here to sell these clothes to maintain income for the women and thus there is no need for us to prove our talent by design extraordinary things. In this sense, designing marketable and also stylish clothes with comfortable fabrics that can provide employment opportunities for women is the most important thing for me. That’s why I look at the sales report of my collection and I choose the most saled products to prepare a new collection for Argande.
UNDP Turkey: With these statements of Gamze Saraçoğlu we have come to the end of this episode of New Horizons which is prepared by United Nations Development Programme UNDP Turkey. We talk about “Argande” project which aims to empower women both economically and socially. To get more information about project, you can visit the project website http://www.argande.com/. You can also follow the project with user name ‘argende’ on Twitter. You can share your opinions about project by using #argande and #yeniufuklar hashtags on Twitter. This program has been recorded at the studio of Radyo ILEF of Ankara University Communications Department. You can follow our program on iTunes under podcasts, on FM frequency in İstanbul, on Açık Radyo (Open Radio) on internet, on nearly fifty Police radios and also on university radios in our broadcasting network and on undp.org.tr. Our user name for social media is undpturkiye. Hope to see you soon, good bye!
In this part, we talk about 2013 Human Development Report which was published by UNDP and launched on 14 March in Mexico.
UNDP Turkey: This is the New Horizons podcast of United Nations Development Programme in Turkey. In this programme, we will talk about the 2013 Human Development Report which was published by UNDP and launched on 14 March 2013 in Mexico. Our contributor is Berna Bayazıt, Programme Manager at UNDP Turkey. Welcome.
Berna Bayazıt (B.B.): Thank you.
UNDP Turkey: The 2013 Human Development Report, which is published annually, launched on 14 March in Mexico. The title of this year’s report is ‘The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World’. The 2013 Human Development Report identifies more than 40 developing countries, including Turkey, with human development gains that significantly outpaced global norms in recent decades. Khalid Malik, the lead author of the Report, said “The Industrial Revolution was a story of perhaps 100 million people, but this is a story about billions of people.” In this sense, what is this global change emphasized by the Report?
B.B.: The 2013 Report addresses the change of balance of power in a way. As we know, there are north countries which are developed. These are Nordic, Scandinavian, European countries and Canada and America and so forth. On the other side, there are developing and least developed countries. This is a traditional classification. But the report focuses on the period of 2000 and 2012 where all countries included in the human development index gained a higher place in the index, some countries have achieved a much greater success than the others. On the other side, it is realized that the economies of developing countries were not affected so seriously from the financial crisis in 2008 as the other countries. And these success stories pave the way to the questions about the practices enacted by the developing countries and the changes in the indicators which are addressed by the report. When we look at the numbers, these countries have made a serious progress in issues such as human development, life expectancy, education and also economic issues such as trading volume. For example, the report says that the share of countries of the South in world trade increased from 25 percent to 47 percent between the years 1980 and 2010. Additionally, the trading volume between the South countries increased from 8.1 percent to 26.7 percent. These numbers reveal a serious increase in trading volume. Moreover, according to a projection, it is expected that until 2020 the total economic production of Brazil, China and India will exceed the total economic production of six biggest economies which are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, England and America. A serious change is being observed.
UNDP Turkey: We talk about a serious paradigm shift.
B.B.: Exactly.
UNDP Turkey: We talk about the rise of developing countries, in other words the rise of the South. I want to give some more information from the report. The report says that the living conditions are getting better in the large part of the South. The rate of people living in extreme poverty in the world decreased from 43 percent to 22 percent from 1990 to 2008. More than 500 million people escape from poverty only in China. This change in the South has become a driving force for human development and struggle against poverty. You said earlier that the numbers shows us the paradaigm change and the positive impact on the lives of people that the rise of the South entails. To be more concrete, how have rise of the South affected the pace of human development in the world?
B.B.: As we mentioned before, there are some basic components of human development index such as income, education, health and life expectancy. In line with these components, an increase in human development index means an increase in life expectancy at birth, a decrease in infant mortality or an increase in mean years of schooling and expected years of schooling, schooling rate and a decrease in the gap between educational attainment of boys and girls.
UNDP Turkey: And also the income per capita...
B.B.: Yes, income per capita. An increase in human development index indicates an increase in both income and non-income indicators and this increase affects all areas of life.
UNDP Turkey: On the other hand, the countries of the South also face some long-term problems that industrialized countries of the North are already suffering from. Population aging, some environmental pressures, inequalities, social inequalities, inconsistency of education and job opportunities and the need for meaningful civil participation are some of these problems. What kind of solutions for these problems are recommended by the report?
B.B.: It is obvious that these countries of the South suffer from the same problems of the countries of the North. By analyzing the experiences of the South, the report shows that the governments of these countries have prioritized development. And the governments should continue to prioritize the development policies in order to make this period of positive progress continue. It is seen that global markets have been used actively and trade has been operated to a high degree. These are also seen as a positive developments for the countries. Social policy and innovative approaches to social policy are also strong contributions for these countries of the South, differently from the other countries. However, the continuation of the development depends on the provision of some specific issues. For example, the inequality is still persisting in these countries and equality and especially gender equality should be maintained for a sustainable development. Again the participation of citizens, political participation and participation to society in any sort of way should be scaled up. Environmental factors, the continuation of environmental sustainability should be provided and especially issues such as aging and demographic changes should be managed in one way. Thus, these are the issues that the countries of the South should be considered in the following period.
UNDP Turkey: We talk about the 2013 Human Development Report with our contributor Berna Bayazıt. You can download the report from undp.org.tr. You can find a Turkish summary of the report from our website. You can find the indicators of the report from hdr.undp.org and it is also possible to make new indexes by using a different kinds of combinations of these indicators provided in this website. Those who want to contribute to this discussion may share their opinions by using #yeniufuklar or #insanigelişme hashtags on Twitter. Let’s more talk more about Turkey as one of the countries of the South that is analysed in the report. How does the report talk about Turkey?
B.B.: Turkey is indeed one of the most prominent countries among fourty countries of the South. Thus, Turkey is one of the first five countries after China, India, Brazil and Mexico. Increase in trading volume and providing sustainable economic growth are the prominent aspects for the case of Turkey. Moreover, Cevdet Yılmaz, Turkish Minister of Development made a contribution to the report talking about the health system reform. He talks about the social policy measures taken to decrease poverty rate such as how social security and health system is reformed, social provisions and employment policies implemented are emphasized and more information is given about and the implementations for the access to universal health system. Turkey is listed among the countries which set the best examples of good practices in that sense.
UNDP Turkey: The report also shows that between the years 1980-2012, Between 1980 and 2012, Turkey’s life expectancy at birth increased by 17.7 years, mean years of schooling increased by 3.6 years and expected years of schooling increased by 5.5 years. Furthermore, Turkey’s GNI per capita increased by about 133 percent between 1980 and 2012. However, in the 2013 Human Development Index, Turkey ranked as 90th country out of 187 countries and regions and thus, Turkey is far behind from European Union members and OECD countries. In other words, Turkey is among the first twenty major economies, however, it is ranked as 90th country in the Human Development Index. How can this situation be interpreted?
B.B.: There are some analyses related to this situation and these are made in every countries. As I said before, income, health and education are the components of Human Development Index. The components are largely related to the participation in social life. Turkey has made a great progress on income component. And it also has made positive progress on health indicators such as life expectancy at birth or access to health services. Progress on income and health reflect the positive developments in Turkey. But the main reason of Turkey’s ranking as 90th country is education. Therefore, because of failure of providing equality in education, extending years in education and educational attainment, decreasing the gap between school enrollment of boys and girls and the inequality between men and women in attainment to high schools and universities, Turkey is ranked 90th.
UNDP Turkey: Then it is about education and the years of enrollment in school.
B.B.: We can say education and the years of enrollment in school and quality of education and on the other hand, gender inequality issue is also one of the factors that causes Turkey ranked 90th in Human Development Index.
UNDP Turkey: My last question is about the other indexes provided in the report. Gender Inequality Index is one of them. In this index, Turkey is ranked 68th out of 148 countries and regions. Which components are analysed in the Gender Inequality Index and how do we interpret the ranking of Turkey in this index?
B.B.: This Gender Inequality Index is comprised of five components. In Turkey, the main problems are generally related to political participation, women’s representation in the parliament and especially in labour market as Turkey falls behind. These problems bring down the ranking of Turkey in the index. This is already a prominent problem of Turkey in development issues for years and this report confirms this situation. Therefore, it seems that gender inequality is a real obstruction for Turkey.
UNDP Turkey: It is obvious that we have still a long way to go. Thank you so much, Berna Bayazıt. We talked about the 2013 Human Development Report with Berna Bayazıt, Programme Manager at UNDP Turkey. You can download the full report, an executive summary of the report and an extensive Turkish summary of the report from undp.org.tr. And we have come to the end of this episode of New Horizons which is prepared by United Nations Development Programme, UNDP Turkey. This program has been recorded at the studio of Radyo ILEF of Ankara University Communications Department. You can follow our program on iTunes under podcasts, on FM frequency in İstanbul, on Açık Radyo (Open Radio) on internet, on nearly fifty Police radios and also on university radios in our broadcasting network and on undp.org.tr. Our user name for social media is undpturkiye. Hope to see you soon, good bye!
In this part, we talk about the impact of migration on development policies of developing countries which have recently become immigrant-receiving countries.
UNDP Turkey: This is the New Horizons podcast of United Nations Development Programme in Turkey. In this programme, we will talk about the impact of migration on development policies of developing countries which has gradually become receiving countries, in a period where increasing migration rate between countries. And our contributor is Yasemin Akis, research assistant and postgraduate student of Sociology Department at Middle East Technical University. Welcome.
Yasemin Akis (Y.A.): Thank you.
UNDP Turkey: You are studying this topic and you will publish a research on the topic soon. So that is the reason we prefer to talk about the migration issue with you. 40 years ago, 70 million people were migrating. In 2012, this number raised to 200 million people. These indicators indeed show that the link and global dependency between countries are not restricted to technology and internet. Additionally, the structure of migration has also been changing. As a result of economic and social development of the developing countries, in other words the South, these countries have become immigrant-receiving countries and Turkey is one of these countries. Can you please explain us the recent global situation? There is an increase in the number of migrant people but specifically what has been changed in recent years?
Y.A.: Previously, the globalization, at first, meant rapid information and capital flow for people. Today, the meaning of globalization is not limited to these activies. Especially in recent years, as you mentioned, the economic and social structure of the South countries have been changed and this gave birth to so many new activities in the realm of globalization. When we look at some statistical results, we see that while the share of developing countries in total economic production was only 25 percent in the 1990s, this number increased to 47 percent in 2010. Thus, during the last 20 years, developing countries almost doubled their share in total economic production. In other words, the production shifted to the countries of the South and centred on specific regions.
UNDP Turkey: There is a paradigm shift.
Y.A.: Exactly. This shift has definitely affected the movement of people and the direction of this movement all around the world. People living in developing countries started to move not only to developed countries, named as the countries of the North, but also to developing neighboring countries to escape from the conditions of poverty and unemployment in their homelands. Thus, the risk and distance have decreased as well as the variety and direction of migration has been changed.
UNDP Turkey: You mean the migration between developing countries as known as South-South migration.
Y.A.: Yes. As you mentioned, at this point, these are the results of an increasing trend over 50 years. However, when we talk about the effects of globalization, the negative effects should also be considered as there are some countries suffering from negative effects of globalization such as increase in the level of unemployment. For example, the former Soviet republics suffered from 70 percent unemployment rate in the 1990s.
UNDP Turkey: According to the 2013 Human Development Report, launched in March, migration between developing countries recently surpassed net migration from South to North. As you mentioned before, what is the impact of this change on development policies of developing countries and what do you think about the possible future effects?
Y.A.: According to the last data, the half of the remittances send by migrant families to developing countries are transferred from the other countries of South. And this shows that the international migration has now affected mostly the economic growth in the countries of the South.
UNDP Turkey: Remittances are very important indicators to measure the migration, aren’t they?
Y.A.: Yes, exactly.
UNDP Turkey: And also to measure the effects of migration, am I right?
Y.A.: You’re right. It is actually one of the most important indicators of economic growth. But there is a missing issue which should be mentioned at first. When we say economic growth, we, at first, think about money transfer. However, as long as the economic growth is not people-oriented and is not used to solve the structural problems in the areas of employment, education or health, its effects would be temporary and it could not maintain a permanent effect on the countries regarding to development.
UNDP Turkey: Turkey is a developing country and in this sense, it is a country that we can observe the changes in the models of migration, based on the rise of the South. At the same time, it is both a sending and a receiving country which is also a country of transit for migrants. The money sent home by migrants living in Turkey was 205 million dolar in 2011. When did the process turning Turkey into a receiving country begin and mostly which countries do migrants come from?
Y.A.: When we think about migration and Turkey together, the first thing come to our minds is the migration of Turkish ‘guest workers’ to Germany. However, Turkey is not only a sending country, it is also a receiving country for years. The last years of the Ottoman Empire, Turkish speaking Muslims were accepted as migrants. Also during the history of Republic, people with Turkish origin came to Turkey as migrants. But your question is probably about the migrants without Turkish origin. In this respect, after the 1990s, we see a rapid increase in migration accelerated by globalization. Therefore, as you said, Turkey is not only a sending country but also a receving and a country of transit.
UNDP Turkey: This development is indeed linked to the economic growth over the past 20 years.
Y.A.: Exactly and also linked to the globalization. In this context, Turkey has emerged as a destination for migrants from the Near and Middle East countries such as Iran, Iraq, Syria, Bangladesh and India, and from contiguous Black Sea countries, former Soviet republics in the north and African countries in the south. Of course not all those migrants are regular. The irregular migrants who have temporary resident permits should be also included in this group of people migrating to Turkey. And lastly, the retired people who worked professionally in Europe before came to Turkey should also be counted in this group.
UNDP Turkey: In this episode, we talk about the effect of migration on development policies in the developing countries. Our contributor is Yasemin Akiz from Middle East Technical University. If you want to join our discussion, you can share your questions, opinions and comments by using #yeniufuklar hashtag on Twitter. And now I want to ask my next question: The remittances migrants send to their homes still really matter to the countries of the South. For example, in the year 2010, 25 countries of the South reported that the remittances they received contitute more than 10 percent of their GDPs. And in 2011, the total amount of remittances sent to the developing countries was around 372 billion dolar. Turkey received almost 1 billion dolar as remittances in 2011. Well, in line with these numbers, how does this amount of money sent by emigrants to Turkey affect economy and development in Turkey regarding the size and the scale of the money?
Y.A.: The numbers you mentioned are definitely very high and as we consider that these amounts do not bring a huge amount of cost to Turkish economy, I think that nobody wants to stop using international remittances. On the other hand, there is also a situation we should consider seriously that it is too wrong to accept international remittances as the basic foundation for the development of the countries because the remittances can be obstructed as the situation of migrants can be changed. An economic crisis would seriously affect this money flow. Besides, these remittances should be invested in the country in order to affect development positively. According to a research explored the situation in Turkey, 70 percent of Turkish engineers who live abroad do not make any investments in Turkey. 16 percent of them have only fixed property. And even if the money sent by this group of engineers may provide better life standards for their families, it does not directly contribute to the country development and thus, cannot obtain long-term effects.
UNDP Turkey: 2013 Human Development Report points out that international society should find solutions for global issues such as trade, climate change and also migration. Report says that migration should be evaluated especially within the framework of models of multilateral cooperation. What do you think about it?
Y.A.: This model you mentioned includes the agreements based on cooperation between states and institutitons at international level. Easing to find employment opportunities for migrants in abroad, decreasing the costs of international remittances, increasing the investment opportunities in the countries they live in and also encouraging them to invest in their homelands are some examples of the models. These are beneficial equally for migrants and also for the receiving and sending countries as they contribute the economic growth. Again, it is so important to emphasize that addition to the economic dimension, there are also social and cultural dimensions of development. While these economic growth is sustained, social participation of migrants and the necessity of developing the conditions in their homelands to not to leave the idea of migration as a legacy for next generations should be considered carefully in the planning process. Otherwise, all these efforts cannot go beyoond just being short-term economic contributions. And to provide long-term results, it is necessary to implement correct policies not only by countries themselves but also between countries and institutions.
UNDP Turkey: You say that prepation and promotion of a migration policy touching many sectors is needed.
Y.A.: Yes.
UNDP Turkey: Thank you so much to join our programme.
Y.A.: Thank you.
UNDP Turkey: We talk about the effect of migration on development policies in developing countries with Yasemin Akis, research assistant and postgraduate student of Sociology Department at Middle East Technical University. And we have come to the end of this episode of New Horizons which is prepared by United Nations Development Programme UNDP Turkey. This program has been recorded at the studio of Radyo İlef of Ankara University Communications Department. You can follow our program on iTunes under podcasts, on FM frequency in İstanbul, on Açık Radyo (Open Radio) on internet, on nearly fifty Police radios and also on university radios in our broadcasting network and on undp.org.tr. Our user name for social media is undpturkiye. Hope to see you soon, good bye!
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