Equal City: A Strong Civic Space for Gender Equality

Welcome to Equal City!

Here, led by young women and men, civil society organizations (CSOs), local authorities, universities, and media work together to advance women’s rights, gender equality, and women’s empowerment.

The city depicts the activities and outcomes of the “Strong Civic Space for Gender Equality” project, implemented by UN Women since April 2021 with the financial support of the European Union, aiming to contribute to a stronger civic space to advance gender equality and women’s rights in Turkey.

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To be launched under the project, the Gender Equality Academy will provide knowledge and training on women’s rights and gender equality, open for everyone to access.

Civil society organizations and women’s rights activists will receive technical and financial support to participate in national and international conferences, fora, platforms and learning opportunities.

UN Women will implement joint projects together with CSOs on the following themes: ending violence against women and girls, women’s access to justice and human rights mechanisms, and women’s economic empowerment.

UN Women will facilitate dialogue between governmental and non-governmental organizations.

In addition, UN Women will create spaces for experience-sharing among civil society organizations, rights’ defenders and young activists through networks, platforms, coalitions and generation equality dialogues.

Under the project, 30  women’s organizations and women-led CSOs will benefit from small grants in order to strengthen their capacities to advance women’s rights and gender equality. In addition, these CSOs will be supported to participate in networking, dialogue and solidarity platforms.

Capacity-development programmes focused on gender statistics will target CSOs, media professionals, university students in statistics and women’s studies departments. These will focus on technical skills for the production and analysis of gender data and developing data literacy.

Under this project, UN Women will carry out communication and advocacy initiatives to transform gender-based stereotypes.

Learning and capacity-development programmes will be developed for CSOs on gender-responsive climate action and disaster risk reduction.

Comprehensive research will be carried out on women’s access to justice, as well as the needs and priorities of rural women and women with disabilities. This will help fuel evidence-based advocacy and policymaking.

UN Women will provide financial and technical support to CSOs to strengthen their institutional capacities.

The goal: a strong civic space for gender equality!