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Turkey: UNDP launches innovative report on youth
Youth in Turkey: with this report the UNDP launches youth into the centre stage. Youth is the key to Turkish development & more than 4 thousand youths become UN researchers...
How easy is it for young people in Turkey to reach their ideals? How many of them are able to make their projects come true? What are the challenges they have to face? Are they aware of all the opportunities that are open to young people? The answers to these, and other, questions, can be found in Turkey?s National Human Development Report, Youth in Turkey, that will be presented in Ankara on March 21.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) issues global human development reports under various themes each year, and national human development reports every two to three years. This year the theme of Turkey?s national report is ?Youth? . This year?s report is an innovative model of human capacity building because the writing of the report was not undertaken by experts but by the subjects of the national development study themselves: youth.
The idea behind making the 4, 000 young people who participated to the report into first hand protagonists stems from the belief that nobody can be a better ?expert? about the ideals, ambitions and problems of young people than youth its self. Moreover, one of the UNDP development report?s guidelines is to encourage people to become owners of their own development, to actively participate in the solutions to their problems.
Youth in Turkey is the result of a comprehensive State of Youth Survey carried out among 3,000 15-24 year olds in 12 different regions of Turkey and twenty four focus groups with 200 young people and 30 adults. Several NGOs, 30 public institutions and more than 30 academics have supported the efforts of this unorthodox research team.
The report will be launched online on the 21st March through the UNDP website and the website of Youth Post, a youth NGO that provides services and information to young people in Turkey. Following the launch there will be a two day knowledge fair at Ankara?s World Trade Centre where Youth in Turkey will be presented to youth organisations, international institutions, universities and government officials in order to stimulate the active participation of youth and as a means of encouraging them to build cooperative relationships with each other.
To find out more:
An interview with one of the founding fathers of the human development model and an expert in human developing reporting explains what we can expect from this report.
The United Nations Development Programme in Turkey in cooperation with youth NGO's paid tribute to its partners by awarding their best practices in youth work to 20 youth projects. The projects tackle "taboo" issues such as discrimination against minorities and genders.
Online guide to Turkey?s national development report for 2008, Youth in Turkey:
