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Final Report of International Youth Leadership Academy
2010 - 2013
Prepared by Elif Kalan and IYLA team
November 2013, Istanbul
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Content
Foreword ................................................................................................................................................. 4
IYLA’s Approach and Vision ..................................................................................................................... 6
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 7
Local and National Partnerships.............................................................................................................. 8
Global Partnerships .............................................................................................................................. 11
Training Curriculum .............................................................................................................................. 13
National Program .............................................................................................................................. 14
International Trainings ....................................................................................................................... 20
Comments from trainees… .................................................................................................................. 21
International Attention .......................................................................................................................... 25
Madam Ban’s Visit .............................................................................................................................. 26
Dream Photo ......................................................................................................................................... 27
Results in numbers ................................................................................................................................ 31
Results ................................................................................................................................................... 32
Profiles ............................................................................................................................................... 33
Information and Communication .......................................................................................................... 34
ONline UGLA. ...................................................................................................................................... 34
Facebook: Uluslararası Genç Liderler Akademisi - Ugla/Iyla ............................................................ 34
Project Partners .................................................................................................................................... 35
Habitat Center for Development and Governance (Habitat) .............................................................. 35
Save the Children (Netherlands)....................................................................................................... 35
UNICEF ............................................................................................................................................. 36
United Cities and Local Governments, Middle East and West Asia Section (UCLG-MEWA) ........ 36
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Foreword
The International Youth Leadership Academy (IYLA) was coordinated by Habitat between
September 2010- September 2013. From the very beginning, it has been witnessed thatthe academy
waswelcomed by many young people and more importantly owned by them together with
continuous support of all partners. As a coordinator, I would like to express my gratitude to all
volunteer trainers who have been organizing local trainings all around the country and I am very
happy to have met with them. Without their willingness and excitement, none of these activities and
trainings could have been done. In addition to our volunteer trainers, I also appreciate the volunteer
support of our partners in developing the curriculum of the training topics: Sabancı University CAR
Program, Bilgi University Child Studies Department and Center for Research and Implementation of
Human Rights Law, BABİL Documentary Movie Association, Başkent University Communication
Department “Hate Speech” Working Group, Lawyer Özlem Kara, and EKO-IQ. Lastly, I also would
like to thank the team at Habitat Office: Tunç Karaçay, Dilara Gök, Dilan Kaya, Zeynep Arslan, Ayşe
Taşpınar, as well as Anıl Gökrenk, Sait Çetin, İlhan Ermiş, İdil Şerifoğlu, Mustafa Özer, Bora Caldu,
Cihan Kaplan, Serdil Demir, Başak Saral and Sezai Hazır. We have believed in this project together
and I am very sure that we will keep continuing and expanding our trainings as well as continue
cooperating and sharing with today’s partners.
Last but not least, IYLA had been developed within a partnership between CORIO and Save the
Children Netherlands, UCLG-MEWA and WALD, and UNICEF-Turkey. Each partner had a specific
role and provided support which contributed to the gradual development of IYLA in its focuscities
and regions. Therefore, we would like to congratulate our partners in taking social responsibility by
investing in people and more specifically youth.
IYLA project aimed to empower young people in Turkey and neighboring regions ,(such as South
East Europe, Caucasus, MENA and Central Asia) to enable them to be local leaders with equipped
knowledge, skills and attitudes they need. Therefore, we proudly say that 147 young volunteer peer
trainers have been empowered through national training programs and they accomplished to expand
their knowledge to more than 4590 disadvantaged youth in 41 cities. In addition to this, through
international trainings, youth organizations and young people themselves from 26 countries have
been empowered on youth and child rights and participation, conflict resolution methods and
approaches together with UNICEF Turkey and Sabancı University CAR Program leadership. IYLA
with growing demand has become a significant venue for young people and youth organizations who
believe in youth capacity and leadership.
During this academy project, that the student feedback we have received was:
- “IYLA is my second home”
- “I realized that discrimination is very serious problem. I think this training should be
generalized all around Turkey in order to get rid of hate speech”,
- “This training made a contribution to my social and business life. After this training, I decided
to improve my attitude towards conflict resolution”
- “The simulation games about negotiation and mediation taught us many significant insights
related to conflict resolution. Additionally, I learnt something about active listening and
dialogue”
- “After this training I will give more importance to art in my life”
- ”I did not care about discrimination and hate speech before. But now I know it is important
to think about this topic. This training changed my perspective and motivated me to
eradicate my prejudices”.
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Many comments and feedbacks from young people all around the world prove that we are on the
right way but also remind us that we need to work harder to keep this energy alive.
Subsequently, three years of IYLA has finalized by September 2013. However, IYLA network both in
Turkey and in the region has been growing and expanding with volunteer power and willingness of
youth. This final report presents accomplishments and displays activities of IYLA within its period.
Elif Kalan – Project Coordinator
Dilara Gök – Project Assistant
Tunç Karaçay – Project Assistant
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IYLA’s Approach and Vision
For IYLA young leader is a person who
is aware of discrimination and take
necessary measures to eliminate
discrimination; respects and protects
others’ rights as well as her/his;
advocates for those rights; uses
peaceful means to resolve conflicts; is
environment-friendly; uses right-based
approach in his/her activities.
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Introduction
The joint project of International Young Leadership Academy (IYLA) began under the coordination
of Habitat Centre for Development and Governance (Habitat), with support of United Cities and
Local Governments Middle East and the West Asian Regional Section (UCLG-MEWA), CORIO
which is a Dutch company, and with the partnership of Save the Children Netherlands office in
September 2010. World Academy of Local Governments and Democracy (WALD), and UNICEF
provided valuable support and technical assistance for the development and improvement of the
academy and training curricula. CORIO, as a partner, financially supported IYLA. Save the Children
Netherlands office assisted the communication and management of the IYLA and provided training
sessions for IYLA students. UCLG-MEWA as an international organization provided the venue for
IYLA within the protocol signed among Habitat, WALD, and UCLG-MEWA. UNICEF supported the
project to reach young people through its regional offices and to invite international experts on child
and youth rights and participation for international and national trainings.
IYLA was established with an aim to set up a contemporary youth leadership training center and
international training school to provide a suitable environment for non-formal education, capacity
building and the enhancement of leadership skills among young people. This center, within the
protocol and partnership with UCLG-MEWA, was renovated by the financial support of CORIO.
Therefore, before kicking off the trainings, a renovation process took place for 3 months in the
center building located in Istanbul.
To realize this aim and empower youth, IYLA has provided several trainings on Information and
Communication Technologies, Computer Literacy, Communication, Project Management, Good Governance,
Participation to Decision-Making Processes, Financial Literacy, Discrimination and Hate Speech on New
Media Environment, HIV/AIDS, Documentary Movie Making and Social Responsibility, Negotiation and
Mediation and Child and youth Rights and Participation, and Climate Change.
Further, the aim of the program was to reach over 3000 youth (between 15 and 30 years old) within
3 years (2010-2013) through IYLA trainings . Trainees invited not only from Turkey but also from the
neighboring countries of Turkey (Southeastern Europe, Caucasus, Mediterranean, Middle East, North
Africa, and Central Asia). Therefore, IYLA has an enormous effort and ambition to serve as a
regional training center for young people .
Based on peer education methodology, volunteer trainers facilitated the local trainings and
workshops in 41 cities.
In addition to local trainings, international trainings were held with support of Save the Children and
UNICEF. The first international training was organized in September 2011 with the participation of all
partners from the Netherlands and Turkey. At this training, the mayor of Istanbul, who is also the
head of UCLG Kadir Topbaş and Istanbul governor participated along with the CEO of CORIO,
general manager of Save the Children, president of Habitat deputy representative of UNICEF and
young participants from South East Europe, Caucasus, MENA and Balkans.
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Local and National Partnerships
IYLA aimed to expand its knowledge and skills through developing partnerships with local instutions:
schools, municipalities, governorates, local NGOs and public institutions. Having said this, IYLa
trainings were organized at high schools, universities, local youth centers and councils. Hereby, you
can see the list of institutions and schools which engaged with IYLA activities and hosted IYLA
workshops:
Şişli Governorate (District of Istanbul)
TEGV – Turkish Educational Volunteers Foundation (Samsun, Yalova, İstanbul, İzmir, Denizli…)
Hayat Sende Akademisi Youth Association- Ankara
Korunmaya Muhtaç Çocuklar (KORUNCUK ) Foundation - Bolluca Orphanage Village- İstanbul
Türkiye Çocuklarına Yeniden Özgürlük Vakfı – Re-Autonomoy Foundation of Turkey
Yaşayarak Öğrenme Youth Center (YAŞÖM)
Sivas Cem Foundation – Sivas
Gençlik Kozası – Çanakkale
Turkish Medicine Students Association - Balçova-İzmir and Ankara
Young TEMA - Sivas
Aydın Youth Center
Bingöl-Solhan Education Association
Eskişehir Red Crescent Youth Wings
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Alternatif Youth Association – Gaziantep
Siirt GAPGENÇ Festival 2012
Adıyaman Youth and Culture House
Batman Youth and Culture House
Diyarbakır Youth and Culture House
Gaziantep Youth and Culture House
Şanlıurfa Youth and Culture House
Siirt Youth and Culture House
Kilis Youth and Culture House
Adana Youth Council
Van Youth Council
Denizli Youth Council
Alanya Youth Council
Düzce Youth Council
İzmir Kent Konseyi Youth Council
İzmir Karabağlar Youth Council
Denizli Youth Council
Diyarbakır Youth Council
Adapazarı TES-İş Anadolu High School
Ordu Endüstri High School
Muş Ağaçlık Secondary School
Tavas Anadolu High School
Tavas Bekir Güngör High School
Kahramanmaraş Baydemirli Boybeyli Secondary School
Silifke Taşeli Schools
Şişli Yunus Emre High School
Şişli Ahi Evran High School
İstanbul Açı High School
Niğde University
İstanbul Bilgi University
Galatasaray University
Cumhuriyet University
Kocaeli University
Harran University
Özyeğin University
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Global Partnerships
Together with its global partners Save the Children and UNICEF, IYLA accomplished to reach out
disadvantageous young people through developing partnerships with local youth and development
civil society organizations in neighbouring regions of Turkey.
International trainings focused on youth participation/empowerment and conflict resolution with an
aim to develop not only the capacities of young people but also the local institutions working on
rights and advocacy.
Here is the list of organizations that took part in IYLA international trainings:
Center for Children's Rights of Montenegro (Montenegro)
Save the Children (Libya and Iraq)
NGO PEN (Peer Educators Network) / Unicef Innovations Lab (Kosovo)
Anima Polis Association (Romania)
PARTNERË PËR FËMIJËT (Albania)
Association of citizens “Sane Childhood” (Macedonia)
Human Rights and Conflict Research Institute (Armenia)
ASDAA association for Deaf (Egypt)
Academy for Peace and Development (Georgia)
Bina Movement Foundation (Tunisia)
Young Leaders Public Union (Azerbaijan)
Youth Development AIDA (Jordan)
Algerian Red Crescent Association (Algeria)
Interkulturni Susreti (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
AXIOS-MISION MUJER (Mexico)
ALFA GENERATION (Romania)
Youth movement REVOLT (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Model Organization of Islamic Cooperation (Egypt)
Action Aid Denmark (Jordan)
Association of law students and young lawyers Pavel Satev Kocani (Macedonia)
Regional youth Office-Uzice (Serbia)
Association of culture and art "Pejo Markovic" (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Youth In Action Association (Afghanistan)
PIC: Peace International Center (Tunisia)
NGO "Public Advocacy" (Georgia)
Gjakova Youth Centre (Kosovo)
Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports – Gençlik ve Spor Bakanlığı (Kosovo)
Sri Lanka Islamic Student Movement Sri Lanka. (www.slism.org)
Obdusdman for Children (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
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Armenian Community of Georgia (Georgia)
Children Charity Club (Kazakhstan)
Qiriazi Center (Kosovo)
Krik Juravlya (Kyrgyzstan)
Day care center for children and youth (Montenegro)
"Kamolot" - humanitarian movement of youth (Uzbekistan)
"Romaversitas" (Macedonia)
Legebitra (Slovenia)
Handicap International (Tajikistan)
Center for Interethnic Cooperation (Russia)
NGO Alternativa (Moldova)
Tema, Turmepa and President of Koç University Volunteers Environment Community (Turkey)
Alternative Youth Association (Turkey)
Şişli Youth Council (Turkey)
Kumbara Sanat (Turkey)
İzmir Youth Council (Turkey)
Red Crescent Eskişehir – Youth Wings (Turkey)
National Youth Parliament (Turkey)
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In total all IYLA Trainings conducted within the program have reached 4590
young people through 147 young volunteer peer trainers who have organized
local activities and trainings in 41 cities between September 2010-2013. In
addition to IYLA national training curriculum, IYLA also organized and
supported trainings on ICT, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship trainings.
Our volunteer trainers from 41 cities as well as from various NGOs
facilitated local trainings. With international trainings and our
international networking training, 111 young people from 29
countries have also been reached.
Training Curriculum
Trainings under IYLA were organized at three levels: training for trainers, local trainings and
international trainings. Since the beginning, trainings were organized and coordinated by Habitat.
Five main training topics at the national level which are Discrimination and Hate Speech, Negotiation
and Mediation, Climate Issues and Environment, Child Rights, Active Volunteerism, and Documentary
Movie-making and Social Responsibility have been developed together with our partners and our
supporters as well as academia and civil society organizations in the context of a national program. In
addition to these topics, ongoing trainings on ICT, Financial Literacy, Entrepreneurship and etc have
been organized under the support and coordination of IYLA. Therefore, we managed to empower
more young people than targeted. Besides the national program, four international training sessions
have been organized to expand knowledge and approach of IYLA in targeted regions.
Documentary Movie Making
and Social Responsibility;
224; 5%
Discrimination and Hate
Speech on New Media; 508;
11%
Negotiation and Mediation;
1874; 41% Financial Literacy; 99; 2%
ICT Literacy; 28; 1%
Technology and Entrepreneursh
ip; 53; 1%
Child Rights and Youth
Participation; 653; 14%
Volunteerism; 609; 13%
; 542; 12%
Trainees
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National Program
National curriculum was developed partnership with academia, NGO and local institutions. Five new
training curriculum was developed and applied in 41 cities with volunteer young trainers. Below, you
can see the detailed information about the trainings and numbers.
Active Volunteerism
Supporters and contributors Active Volunteer-ism
United Nations Volunteering Program (UNV)
Reach out 13 cities
609 children and youth beneficiaries
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Information
Training of trainers was conducted on Active Volunteer-ism in
December 2012 in partnership with UNV Turkey office. A tot
was organized in order to raise awareness on volunterism,
undertsnading of volunteerism; to increase the capacity of local youth
NGOs on volunteer management; to enable youth in advocating
volunteer initiatives. Therefore, young people who participated in this
training were volunteer or professional youth workers who would
contribute to the development of volunteerism culture.
Content:
Understanding volunteerism – Who/what is a volunteer?
Volunteerism- as a tool for sustainable development
Stakeholder in advocacy
Volunteer Management
Volunteer Policy
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Child Rights and Participation
Supporters and contributors Bilgi University Child Studies Program
Reach out 11 cities
653 children and youth beneficiaries
40 local trainings and workshops
Information
Third Trainer of Trainers (TOT) was conducted on Child
Rights and Participation on 15-20 July 2012 in Istanbul,
together with Child Studies Development of Bilgi
University, TOT was organized in order to raise awareness
on child rights and participation and to implement “Child
Rights” game with 11-14 years old children.
This training was specifically targeted children between 11-
14 years old
Content
Introduction to Child Rights
Child Rights Convention
Child Rights Principles
“Child Rights” game
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Documentary Movie Making And Social Responsibility
Supporters and contributors Babil Association of Documentary Movie Making
Reach out 6 cities
224 children and youth beneficiaries
8 local trainings and workshops
Information
Training of trainers was conducted on Documentary Movie
Making and Social Responsibility on 11-15 February 2011 in
Istanbul, together with Babil Association of Documentary
Movie Making. TOT was organized in order to raise
awareness on documentary, youth and methods to develop
advocacy movies on social responsibility.
Content:
Art
Cinema and Documentary Cinema
Verbal History
Social Responsibility and Cinema
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Conflict Resolution: Negotiation and Mediation
Supporters and contributors Sabancı University Conflict Analysis and Resolution Master’s
Program: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nimet Beriker , students - Ayşe
Taşpınar, Cihan Ak, Nihan Sakarya ve Tunç Karaçay as well
as Safiya Nuryyeva, Jubjam Vila, Süheyla Nurlu,
Pelin Çiftçi, Arjola Balılaj, Azat Nuriakhmetov, Sena Tek,
Hatice Özen, Ismail Aliji, Gülcihan Çiğdem.
Reach out 34 cities
1570 youth beneficiaries
79 local trainings and workshops
Information
Two TOTs were conducted on Negotiation and Mediation.
First one is in May 2011 and the second one was held in May
2013. The content was developed by the MA students at
Sabancı Uni CAR program together with the supervision of
Assoc. Prof. Nimet Beriker. The aim of these trainings was
to empower youth on negotiation and mediation knowledge and
enable them to gain skills on methods through interactive
practices.
Content:
Negotiation: Methods/Types – Simulations
Mediation: Methods/Types – Simulations
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Discrimination And Hate Speech On New Media
Supporters and
contributors
1st phase: Attorney Özlem Kara, Prof. Mutlu Binark –, Doç. Dr.
Günseli Bayraktutan Sütçü (Başkent University), Tuğrul Çomu –
Ankara University
2nd phase: Gökçeçiçek Ayata, Burcu Yeşiladalı - İstanbul Bilgi
University Human Rights Center, Assistant. Prof. İdil Işıl Gül and Ulaş
Karan (PhD)– Bilgi University Law Faculty, Assoc. Prof. Kenan Çayır –
Bilgi University Sociology Department
Reach out 14 cities
508 youth beneficiaries
24 local trainings and workshops
Information Two TOTs were conducted on Discrimination and Hate Speech topic.
First one is in February 2011 and the second one was held in
December 2012. The aim of these trainings is to empower youth on
discrimination and hate speech content, to raise awareness on discrimination
practices in daily life, to introduce mechanisms to fight with discrimination
and hate speech on media and daily practices and finally to enable the
beneficiaries to experience cases through interactive practices.
Content 1:
Human Rights
Themes and Concepts of Discrimination Law
National and International Law on Discrimination
Precautions to stop Discrimination
Content 2:
From prejudges to discrimination
Discrimination and International Law
The role of CSOs in fighting against Discrimination
Hate Speech on New Media
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Climate Teams
Supporters and contributors EKO-IQ
Ayşe Bilge Dicleli / Barış Doğru
Reach out 11 cities
542 youth beneficiaries
17 local trainings and workshops
Information Training was conducted on focusing Climate and
Environment Challenges and Local Youth Initiatives on 26-
30 September 2012 in Istanbul. This TOT was organized
in order to raise awareness on local climate and environment
problems and issues by youth among local citizens. Hereby,
training is planned to establish local youth climate team
members who lead local advocacy campaigns, write on offline
and online media on issues and increase knowledge on climate
change. At the end of the TOT, a blog was established:
http://iklimtakimlari.blogspot.com/
Content:
What is Habitat?
Global Climate Change and its effects
Solutions at the personal and city level
Consumption Behaviors in combating
environmental problems
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Thousands of
applications were
received from more
than 80 countries in
for international
trainings of IYLA and
only 117 selected
for the trainings
from 29 countries.
Three international
trainings were organized
with a focus of
empowering youth
leaders in rights,
participation, citizenship
and social responsibility.
to join All trainees also
were informed about
youth participation for
post 2015. We have
worked with Ravi
Karkara who is a master
trainer on youth
participation. Ravi is also
a person who not only
encourages, and
supports youth; he is
also a strong defender
of youth rights at all
levels, and in any location.
Training on conflict
resolution: negotiation
and mediation was
organized in partnership
with Sabancı University
CAR program students
in supervising of Assoc.
Prof. Nimet Beriker.
The training aimed at
increasing conflict
resolution skills and
knowledge of the
trainees whom from
post conflict countries.
Therefore, it foreseen
that training would empower youth in
resolving conflicts in a
peaceful way.
Participants’ countries: Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Croatia
Egypt
Georgia
Iraq
Jordan
Kyrgyzstan
Kazakhstan
Kosovo
Libya
Macedonia
Mexico
Macedonia
Montenegro
Moldova
Morocco
Romania
Russia
Serbia
Sri Lanka
Syria
Slovenia
Tajikistan
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Yemen
More thoughts
from our leaders:
Why attend an
IYLA training?
“We are not only young
people. We were only 29 youth
from 17 different countries.
We can now reach hundreds,
and thousands of people. And if
more youth take part in this
training, they can also reach
thousands of people.
Therefore, we can reach
millions of people. More Youth
for a Better Future!”
What is your plan
of action?
“I will organize many meetings
within my school and
organizations. I will inform the
students and youth about their
rights, human rights, and the
rights of children with
disabilities. After the meetings, I
will create a group that wants
to improve the lives of youth
and work on these topics. Then
I will organize some campaigns
to get support from the local
government.”
-- Ihsan Mercan, Turkey
International Trainings
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Comments from trainees…
From international trainings...
“It was very good training. I’ve learned a lot. Programme content was very beneficial for me. I had
too much information about the world we want, 2015 guide etc. Trainers were very kind and ,
creative. They taught many methods to use. I expected some follow up, follow a project. But I’ll do
my best with my own” (25, Male)
“The training was of a great use to me all the knowledge received will certainly be helpful for me to
realize my future initiatives. Thanks to Ravi for the greatest inspiration. I am proud to become a
better world agent now.
Conflict resolution session was absolutely helpful as this is a part of what I am studying and really
interested in” (24, Female)
“If I have another chance I’ll not hesitate to participate again” (25, Male)
“Thank you very much for all the work done which is very helpful in our lives. I, became more self-
confident and it was very interesting to hear all these ideas from participants especially when you are
coming from different countries.
I’d like to receive all the materials, presentations because I really want to share them with the people
(youth, adults, teenagers) in my home country. Thank you ” (22, Female)
“A beautiful experience that has motivated me for further work, to become an even more active
citizen and to give back to the world. Made some amazing friends (pampis), learned few words from
other languages, and gained a huge knowledge on these topics. Special thanks to Elif. She was our
biggest support and she made an amazing workshop. Overall,I enjoyed every second and I hope that
we will stay in private and business touch” (18, Male)
“This was my first experience abroad. For this reason I tried to be reserved. But the outcome of this
training is incredibly valuable. I gained a lot. I realized my strengths and weakness. Overall, I achieved
my goals. This event was a milestone in my life. It helped me to choose my future career.” (22, Male)
“It was a great experience!!! Not only professionally, but also personally”(22,Female)
“I would have liked that we had more time on discussing discrimination. This is a really important
thing. I was shocked to realize that I am discriminating people. Thank you a lot for helping me, to
know, to explore myself, and have a chance to change!” (20 Female)
“These projects should continue.” “Focusing on Youth is very important cause we are the future's leaders.ı liked that specially middle east ,NA,Caucas, and Balkan have a lot of similarities in cultures .”
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“You can organize additional trainings for all participants .” “I would like to participate in more role plays , they are really effective to understand global issues.
the training was great and ı am truly thankful for it.” “I will use all gained skils and knowledge that ı got here for my future project on HR education.”
“Building a network in the region is a good idea.” “This is a good training because it brought together people from different cultural and educational backgrounds and from 3 continents.” “It is one of the best training that I have ever got cause it was international and it was not like going school and attending a class.ı have had fun ,learned about human rights (especially children),heard about NGOs .”
Some comments from national trainings…
“I realized that people who are perceived as not one of us are actually one of us.” “This training provided me to realize that how much I have contributed to discrimination acts and shared posts including hate-speech on new media and made me to think who I am” “I become more conscious about who I am and who might I be.”
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“I realized myself. I found answers to the question of Who am I. I saw that there is no ‘other’, but just ‘we’.” I realized that I have been part of “Hate Speech” from time to time. We have been informed about how we can fight against discrimination and hate speech. I have noticed that we have not spent time to eliminate discrimination at our work.” “This training is more than I expected. I have noticed my prejudiges of myself.” “This is a very important training in the sense that it is the first time such training was held on this very crucial topic.” “This training provided me to face myself and understand my prejudices.” “One of very important thing about the training was that participants came from different cultures and cities.” “It was great to be trained by a disabled trainer.” “I had a chance to understand and get to know individuals from LGBTT societies, people from different ethnicities and backgrounds.” “I have seen that how discrimination has naturalized in our daily life. During the training, I have asked myself many times ‘Did we really do such things?’ “Although I have been faced with discrimination many times in my life, with this training, I realized that I have also discriminated people on different basis."
“Training was more than I expected.” “I very much liked the idea of ‘internalizing the documentary movie.’” “The most interesting session was ‘Oral History’ practice.” “I have very much enjoyed visiting the exhibition of Frida Kahlo.” This training seriously changed my point of view about life. “ “The theoretical part of the training was amazing.” “I have realized that “oral history” is much powerful than “written history”.” “I have realized that it is not only related to the object that is being shot but rather the music, color, and initial idea.”
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“I can recognise if there is a negotiation happening around me.” “I can name it if there is a negotiation happening around me.” “I am a good negotiator.“ “I know lose-win results of the negotiations.“ “I am well aware of the relation between negotiation and mediation.” “I can easily figure it out if there is a conflict or not.” “I can easily spot the mediator during a conflict.” “I can easily name it if there is a mediation happening around me.” “I can differentiate the mediator around me.” “I frequently experience mediation.” “I know the stages of mediation.” “The trainers from Sabancı University were very successful. This was the most successful training I have ever participated in.” “At the end of the training, I have felt that this training enabled me to develop my theoretical understanding on the topics.” “Training topics were very good. It could have been less theortical and more practical. But again, it was very good training.” “If we could have more time, we could have more practical simulations. It would help us to understand the content.” “I understood that to be a good mediator, you need time and experience.” “I realized that negotiation and mediation are the processes that we already have experienced in our daily lives.”
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International Attention
The academy was opened by the
participation of all high-level executives of all
partners as well as the mayor and the
governor of Istanbul.
Together with our Dutch partners, Save the
Children and CORIO, the academy was
officially opened for young people to benefit.
Dutch partners also supported the visibility of the academy in the Netherlands. Within this, one of
our trainers with disadvantaged backgrounds opened the Stock Exchange in the Netherlands in
October 2012.
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Madam Ban’s Visit
United Nations General Secretary Ban-ki Moon’s wife Madam
Ban, visited IYLA on the 6th of June 2012. During her visit,
Madam Ban had the opportunity of meeting IYLA’s partners
CORIO, Habitat, UCLG-MEWA, UNICEF, WALD and the
trainees and trainers of IYLA’s trainings. In addition, after
learning in great detail about IYLA’s work, Madam Ban
emphasized the importance of young people’s participation in
such activities. She also congratulated IYLA’s partners for their
support.
Students of the Şişli Nuri Akın High School, Yunus Emre High
School and Şişli Ahi Evran Vocational Trade High School
participated in the visit of Madam Ban and had the opportunity
to discuss a number of topics with her.
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Dream Photo
Güven Uyanık is 22 years old and he has been on wheel cheer since he was 14. He has
multiple sclerosis disesase. His sister has the same disease. He lives in Ümraniye which is
also a district of Istanbul in which immigrants from Turkey live. He is originally from Bitlis.
He is at the high school and tries to follow the courses from home.
Güven Uyanık is dreaming of connecting to the world with his computer at home. Being
aware that he is disabled, he knows that he cant move as he wants due to the lack of
environmental and physical regulations around him. However, he thinks that through using
internet and social media, he can be where he wants to be. In addition to this, he also thinks
that he can make monet out of this. When we look at his photo, we see that he is
connected to the city behind him with the lap top he has on his laps.
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Gizem Büyükduran is 18 years old. She is studying Economics in English at Istanbul
University. She is a member of Beşiktaş Youth Council. She is an active volunteer there.
Gizem Büyükduran is dreaming of becoming a writer. She is interested in writing poems
and essays. She says: “When I write poems, essays; I can actually see different worlds, touch
nice ideas , and even smell them if I want to. That's my dream! :) I've shared so much
together with my poems, essays. I can't live without literature! :)”
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Dilan Kaya is 21 years old young woman lives in Istanbul. She is studying urban and regional
planning at Istanbul Technical University. She has been volunteering at Habitat for 3 years. She
began working as a volunteer at Diyarbakır Youth Council when she was in Diyarbakır. She is
originally from Diyarbakır.
Dilan Kaya is dreaming of flying. She has been very active and taken part in various projects.
However, she said that since she was a kid she wanted to fly. In th photo, she is on the little
island called meadien’s tower. She tries to fly from there while she admires of birds flying
above her. These birds are the symbol of bosphores and they company the ships going around
the Bospohores.
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Barış Yılmaz is a high-school student at 17 years old. He is at the last year of high shcool
and he has been studying for university exam. He is a volunteer at Sultangazi Youth Council in
which Sultangazi district of Istanbul which is mainly populated by domestic migrants from
different parts of Turkey. He is one of them.
Barış Yılmaz is dreaming of becoming an actor. When he came to trainings at the Academy
in summer 2011, he mentioned that he’d like to be either a lawyer or actor, yet he is now
decided to become an actor. We can see on his picture that he would like to be on the stage
and ready with his make-up.
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Results in numbers
Sinem Akbulut is 23 years old. She dropped out of the university where she was studying Physics in Muğla. She came to İstanbul to settle and study photography. She is interested in
photography professionally. She works part-time jobs to save some money for her education.
She will take the university exam this year.
Sinem Akbulut is dreaming of being a photographer and seeing different part of the world with
only one backpack. Her photo was taken in one of the very crowded streets where you can find
people from all over the world. So, for now, she has been lost in this crowd with her camera.
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Results
IYLA team conducted trainings on various topics. In addition to IYLA cirriculum, IYLA also supported
and operated trainings on following topics. These are the number of the trainings and trainees who
attended the trainings.
Documentary Movie Making
and Social Responsibility
4%
Discrimination and Hate Speech on New Media
11%
Negotiation and Mediation
41% Financial Literacy 3%
ICT Literacy 1%
Technology and Entrepreneurship
1%
Child Rights and Youth
Participation 18%
Volunteerism 14%
7%
Trainings
Documentary Movie Making
and Social Responsibility;
224; 5%
Discrimination and Hate Speech on New Media;
508; 11%
Negotiation and Mediation; 1874;
41%
Financial Literacy; 99; 2%
ICT Literacy; 28; 1%
Technology and Entrepreneurship
; 53; 1%
Child Rights and Youth
Participation; 653; 14%
Volunteerism; 609; 13%
; 542; 12%
Trainees
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Profiles
IYLA trainings at the local, national and international level mainly reached out to young people
between 15-30 years old. Young people who have disadvantaged background or who live in
underserved communities specifically were targeted in the local trainings. In order to do those local
trainers develop partnership with education administrations, orphanage houses, local authorities.
Therefore, IYLA trainings reached out to the students living in very rural areas such as Bingöl, Solhan,
in villages such as in Kahramanmaraş, as well as underserved districts such as Kuştepe in Istanbul.
Together with this, many young people who attended IYLA trainings are university students who
have lack of opportunities to take part in such non-formal education; therefore, local trainers also
focused on universities and cooperated with university clubs. Lastly, as it can be seen, young
individuals who either heard from friends or through social media applied to take part in the local
trainings. Therefore, IYLA network has increased immensely.
See impact assessment reports on web: http://www.uglakademi.org/upload/mce/tr_iyla_report.pdf
Student 86%
Full-time 7%
Unemployed 4%
Part Time 2%
Seasonal
1%
Occupational Profile
Female 58%
Male 42%
Gender
Individuals
63%
Youth NGO 16%
Youth Council
8%
University Club
13%
Institutional Profile
University
71%
High school 29%
Graduate
0%
Education
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Appendix 1 Project Partners
Project Partners
Habitat Center for Development and Governance (Habitat)
Habitat International Network was established at the Copenhagen Social Development Summit in
1995, and has approximately 300 members in nearly 100 countries, Habitat was founded as an
association by engaged youth of the United Nations Human Settlements (Habitat II) Conference,
which was held in 1995 in Istanbul. The purpose of the association was to improve the capacities of
youth and to support the participation of local and national decision-making processes. Habitat has
undertaken various projects and programs, during a 15-year period, with different social groups,
including children, youth, women, and disabled people. With the partnership of Women, Youth,
Children Councils, and Councils of Disabled People configured all under the umbrella of the National
Youth Parliament and City Councils, Habitat contributes to The United Nations’ Millennium
Development Goals with the creation of urban policies on the basis of rights, access to information
and effective use of communication technologies, awareness of social gender and sexual
health/reproductive health, development of entrepreneurship and financial knowledge and skills, and
ensuring environmental sustainability.
Habitat’s mission is to support children, youth, women, and the disabled in terms of sustainable
development and participation in decision-making processes through developing the capacities of
young people.
CORIO
Corio N.V. is a Dutch-based commercial real estate investment company which owns and
manages shopping centres. Headquartered in Utrecht, the Netherlands the firm primarily consists of
a portfolio of retail properties worth €7.2 billion in the Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, Germany,
and Turkey.[1]The company was formed in 2000 by the merger of the property funds VIB and
WBN,[2] initially also investing significantly in office buildingsand other commercial property. These
activities have since been scaled back in favour of retail real estate. At the end of 2010 around 4% of
Corio's holdings were in properties other than shopping centres, down from 47% in 2000.[1] The
company is listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange and Euronext Paris and is a constituent of the
benchmark AEX index since March 2008.
Save the Children (Netherlands)
The Save the Children Fund,[1] commonly known as Save the Children, is the largest internationally
active non-governmental organization that promotes children's rights, provides relief and helps
support children in developing countries.[2] It was established in the United Kingdom in 1919 in order
to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and protection, as well as
providing emergency aid during disasters,.
In addition to the UK organisation, there are 29 other national Save the Children organisations who
are members of Save the Children International, a global network of nonprofit organisations
supporting local partners in over 120 countries around the world.
Save the Children promotes policy changes in order to gain more rights for young people[3] especially
by enforcing the UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child. Alliance members coordinate
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emergency-relief efforts, helping to protect children from the effects of war and violence.[2] Save the
Children has general consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
UNICEF
UNICEF is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to advocate for the protection of
children’s rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full
potential UNICEF is guided by the Convention on the Rignts of the Child (CRC) and strives to
establish children’s rights as enduring ethical principles and international standards of behaviour
towards children. UNICEF insists that the survival, protection and development of children are
universal development imperatives that are essential to human progress.
UNICEF mobilises political will and material resources to help countries, particularly developing
countries, ensure a ‘first call for children’ and to build their capacity to form appropriate policies and
deliver services for children and their families. UNICEF is committed to ensuring special protection
for the most disadvantaged children - victims of wars, disasters, extreme poverty, all forms of
violence and exploitation, and those with disabilities. UNICEF responds in emergencies to protect
the rights of children. In coordination with United Nations partners and humanitarian agencies,
UNICEF makes its unique capabilities for rapid response available to its partners to relieve the
suffering of children and those who provide their care. UNICEF is non-partisan and its cooperation is
free of discrimination. In everything it does, the most disadvantaged children and the countries in
greatest need have priority. UNICEF aims, through its country programmes, to promote the equal
rights of women and girls and to support their full participation in the political, social and economic
development of their communities. UNICEF works with all partners towards the attainment of the
sustainable human development goals adopted by the world community and the realisation of the
vision of peace and social progress enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations.
United Cities and Local Governments, Middle East and West Asia Section (UCLG-
MEWA)
As one of the eight regional sections of UCLG World Organization, United Cities and Local
Governments, Middle East and West Asia Section (UCLG-MEWA) continues its activities
from its headquarters in Istanbul.
International Union of Local Authorities, Section for the Eastern Mediterranean and
Middle East Region (IULA-EMME), as the predecessor of UCLG-MEWA, was established in
Turkey in 1987 as one of the regional sections of International Union of Local Authorities (IULA).
IULA-EMME has been transformed into UCLG-MEWA in 2004, in parallel with the creation and
restructuring of the UCLG World Organization.
Since its establishment, UCLG-MEWA continues its activities for cities and local governments in the
region, from its headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey, serving the main principles of democracy, human
rights, local self-government, international solidarity, accountability and transparency, and sustainable
development.