The study visit was organized between 24 and 29 May 2009, in order to visit Sweden with 16 women attending Schools of Politics in 2008-2009 period, in order to closely monitor the women’s movement and parliamentary work there and to understand the place of women in politics with international experience and perspective and to provide

KA.DER has organized Schools of Politics between 2003 and 2015 for 12 years, in order for ensuring equal representation of women within decision-making mechanisms that were participated in by elections and assignments. The main objectives of Schools of Politics can be summarized as follows: To increase the number of women candidates and of elected women

This project, which was funded by United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF), aimed to raise the awareness among women’s organizations in Turkey and women’s rights activists on enjoyment of rights and to strengthen their capacity to make rights-based policy. Within this project, the trainings of trainers on “human rights of women” were held for the representatives

The main objective of the Schools of Politics project, which was held with the support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) during the 2011 general election, was to increase the number of woman candidates and of elected women in the general elections; and to ensure all the participants to meet on “common ground

Association for Support and Training of Women Candidates has conducted “Strengthening Female Citizens and Activists as Voters and Active Citizens Project” which was funded by European Instrument for Democracy & Human Rights (EIDHR) fund. With the project, it was aimed at promoting active and participatory citizenship and encouraging active long-term participation of women in politics,

The objective of the project funded by the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives is to inform young women in different political parties regarding the field of gender equality. At the same time, with the project, it is aimed to integrate gender mainstreaming into the agenda of local municipalities by creating a pool of gender experts

Women in our country have the right to be elected to the headmen and councils of the elders with the amendment of the village law on October 26, 1933. The women in Turkey obtained their right to vote and to be elected as mukhtars and councilor with the amendment made in Village Affairs Act on

As KA.DER, we have recently launched Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) study together with municipalities in local governments. With the purpose of incorporating the perspective of gender equality into the planning and budgeting processes, as KA.DER Head Office, we carry out a series of discussions together and we promote KA.DER’s project on this subject while at

The women in Turkey obtained their right to vote and to be elected in the local governments with the adoption of Municipal Law on 3 April 1930 prior to the women of various western countries. However, despite the fact that this happened 87 years ago, it is observed that the representation of women in local