Events

We will have a number of events during the lifetime of our Project. These will be:

Stakeholder Workshops

These workshops will serve 2 purposes. We are in the process of delivering, in close partnership with the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, a workshop in each of our 5 pilot provinces – Ankara, Adana, Bursa, Istanbul and Izmir – to discuss with local stakeholders the ways in which they consider policies should be revised or strengthened, or new policies drafted, to prepare Türkiye better for the changing world of work, and to protect the rights of workers. A desk research report is prepared in advance of each workshop, and a report on the workshops’ discussions is drafted: these reports will be uploaded to this website within a few weeks of the workshop taking place.

Workshops for Studies

We are in the process of conducting a field survey on 4 topics:

  • Sector Studies – to understand how stakeholders view the trends for new skills to match the way in which their sectors will develop over the coming decade;
  • PwDs – to consider ways in which the working lives of people with disabilities can be improved;
  • Mobbing – to look at how workplace mobbing can be better monitored and reduced to protect workers;
  • Impact Assessment – to analyse the extent to which current legislation protects the rights of workers, especially female workers, and whether changes are needed which could support the greater participation of women in Türkiye’s workforce.

We will conduct 4 online workshops – one for each topic – with relevant stakeholders, prior to, or at an early stage during, these field surveys, to ensure that we are asking the right questions and that the preliminary views we have formed arising from our desk research exercises are accurate. We will then conduct 4 Ankara-based in-person workshops at the end of the surveys to present our evidence-based finding to policy-makers. Reports from all of these workshops will be uploaded to the website.

Capacity-Building

We are in the process of delivering a major capacity-building programme for staff from the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, together with staff from related institutions and social partners. Five subjects will be covered:

  • Promoting Decent Work for Women;
  • Decent Work and gender;
  • Project Cycle Management;
  • Drafting National Policies and Strategies (geared to decent work with a gender approach);
  • Drafting National Legislation (geared to decent work with a gender approach).

In all, 600 staff will participate in this training, which started on 21 February 2022 and will run through to 14 December 2022 (with gaps for Ramazan/Bayram, and for the summer holiday period). A significant volume of training material has been prepared for this ambitious programme – this will be uploaded to the website at the conclusion of each subject.

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