The number of women benefiting from the government's social and economic support service has so far reached 400,000, while TL 40 million has been allocated to 22 million women within the scope of the half-day work allowance. Women will continue to benefit from this service, launched to ensure women's participation in both family and business life. Under the Women's Empowerment Strategy Document and Action Plan, the government is working on five main axes, namely education, health, economy, participation in decision-making mechanisms and media.
ndonesia and Turkey signed a memorandum of understanding Monday in Jakarta to cooperate in social rehabilitation, social security, disaster management and welfare programs. The ministers also agreed to send their senior officials to study welfare programs in both countries.
This paper summarises findings from an initial scoping study, which seeks to review how child protection outcomes are captured when monitoring multi-purpose humanitarian cash programmes. The study intends to inform the development and piloting of new approaches to integrating child protection concerns into multi-purpose cash monitoring frameworks. It was conducted for the Alliance for Child Protection’s, Cash Transfer and Child Protection Task Force.
Turkey has achieved progress in eradicating poverty, reducing inequalities and addressing the needs of vulnerable groups, a senior official said on July 15. Speaking at the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development at UNheadquarters, Naci Ağbal, the head of Turkey's Strategy and Budget Directorate, said "fundamental steps" helped Turkey make that progress.