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OUR EXPERIENCE 2003-2016 İSTANBUL BİLGİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ CENTER FOR CIVIL SOCIETY STUDIES This publication is a comprehensive activity report of the work done by the Center for Civil Society Studies, Istanbul Bilgi University between January 2003 and June 2016. The project names used in the book are the ones that are in common usage. OUR EXPERIENCE 2003 - 2016 Istanbul Bilgi University Publications 592 NGO Studies – Training Books 21 ISBN 978-605-399-486-2 1st Printing: Istanbul, June 2017 © Bilgi İletişim Grubu Yayıncılık Müzik Yapım ve Haber Ajansı Ltd. Şti. Correspondence Address: İnönü Caddesi, No: 43/A Kuştepe Şişli 34387 İstanbul Türkiye Phone: 0212 311 64 63 – 311 61 34 / Fax: 0212 216 24 15 • Certificate No: 11237 Editors Emrah Gürsel, Nurhan Yentürk, Yörük Kurtaran, Merve Seda Çevik, Özlem Ezgin Book & Cover Design Kadir Abbas Typesetting and Layout Maraton Dizgievi • www.dizgievi.com Translation Sylvia Zeybekoğlu Editing Eren Pultar Printing and Binding Mega Basım Yayın San. ve Tic. A.Ş. Cihangir Mah. Güvercin Cad. No: 3/1 Baha İş Merkezi, A Blok Kat 2 Avcılar İstanbul Türkiye Phone: 0212 412 17 00 / Fax: 0212 422 11 51 • Certificate No: 12026 OUR EXPERIENCE 2003-2016 Contents xi Preface xiii Foreword xv Acknowledgements 1 INTRODUCTION 3 A Brief History 5 Units 5 i. NGO Training and Research Unit 6 ii. Youth Studies Unit 7 iii. Child Studies Unit 9 iv. Bilgi Social Incubation Center 10 v. Social Projects and NGO Management Master’s Program A - EMPOWERMENT 15 EMPOWERMENT 17 i. Bilgi Social Incubation Center (2014 - ...) 20 ii. Purple Certificate Program (2016 - 2017) 21 iii. Things: Technology for Social Change (2015 - 2016) 22 iv. CSO Exchange Program – STDP (2015 - 2016) 23 v. Youth Life Skills Sharing Project (2014 - 2015) 23 vi. Empowering Teachers Working with Syrian Children: Research and Training Project (2014 - 2015) 24 vii. Children Have a Say Board Game and Peer Training (2008 - 2015) 25 viii. Fighting with Domestic Violence and Gender Inequality (2014) 25 ix. Children’s Rights-Oriented Critical Media Literacy Program (2013 - 2014) 25 x. Schools on the Way to Democracy in Sarıyer (2013 - 2014) 26 xi. Network: Youth and Participation Project (2012 - 2014) 29 xii. Translation and Dissemination of Compasito Project (2009 - 2014) 30 xiii. Empowering Families to Ensure the Gender Equality of Children (2012 - 2013) 31 xiv. Youth Campus for Human Rights (2012 - 2013) 32 xv. Gender Equality Research and Training Material Development Project - 1 (2011 - 2013) vi contents 32 xvi. My Rights in Drawings (2012) 33 xvii. Creative Ideas Meetings (2009 - 2010) 33 xviii. Study Visits for Youth Organizations (2009 - 2010) 34 xix. CD and Internet-based Content Production for CSO Capacity Building (2007 - 2010) 34 xx. Distant Learning-based Certificate Programs for CSOs (2005 - 2011) 36 xxi. NGO Training and Certificate Program (2003 - 2011) 38 xxii. My School is My Future (2009 - 2010) 38 xxiii. First Step to Human Right Summer Camp: I won’t do it (Rightly TV) (2009) 39 xxiv. Empowerment of Mothers Program (2008) 39 xxv. Youth and Social Rights Project (2006 - 2007) B - MODEL GENERATION 43 MODEL GENERATION 43 i. Towards Democratic Schools (DOD): Participation Practices that Empower Students and Schools (2013 - 2015) 44 ii. Children Have a Say Radio Program (2008 - 2015) 44 iii. Living Library (2007 - 2015) 46 iv. Baykuş Youth Trainings (2007 - 2008) 47 v. All Different All Equal Radio Program (2006 - 2007) C - ADVOCACY AND NETWORKING 51 ADVOCACY AND NETWORKING 51 i. Public Expenditures Monitoring Platform/KAHİP (2010 - ...) 53 ii. Volunteer Work in Laws and Policies (2012 - 2017) 53 iii. Young Voices Meetings (2015) 54 iv. Symposium on “The Role of Child Ombudsmanship in Implementing Children’s Rights” (2014) 54 v. Reinforcing the Participation of Civil Society in Preventing Violence Against Children (2013 - 2014) 55 vi. Constitution is my Constitution (2012) 55 vii. Young Status of Participation (November 2011 – May 2012) 56 viii. Magnifier to the Address (2010 - 2011) 57 ix. Youth Centers Network Project (2009 - 2011) 58 x. Sweden-Turkey Youth Policies Seminars - I and II (2009 - 2010) 58 xi. Think Purple (2008) 59 xii. GePGeNç Youth Festival(s) (2006 and 2008) 61 xiii. CSOs in the EU Accession Negotiations I and II (2005 - 2006) 62 xiv. Network Membership contents vii D - LOCAL PARTICIPATION 67 LOCAL PARTICIPATION 67 i. Youth Participation via Video Projects (2011 - 2014) 69 ii. Nilüfer Park Children’s Project (2014) 69 iii. Short Wave Youth Center (2007 - 2014) 74 iv. Children’s Festivals (2007 – 2013) E - ACADEMIC STUDIES AND PUBLICATIONS 79 ACADEMIC STUDIES AND PUBLICATIONS 80 i. Social Projects and NGO Management Master’s Program 81 ii. Courses: 81 ✓ Children and the Media 81 ✓ Child Policies 81 ✓ The Conception of Childhood throughout History 82 ✓ Social Responsibility Project 82 ✓ Ecological Social Entrepreneurship 83 ✓ Youth Policies 83 ✓ Fund Raising and Project Preparation Techniques 83 ✓ Introduction to Applied Ethics 84 ✓ Global Civil Society 84 ✓ Contemporary Issues in Environment and Ecology 85 ✓ Gender in Everyday Life 85 ✓ Ecological Literacy and Sustainability 85 ✓ Social Responsibility, Civil Society and Istanbul 86 ✓ Digital and Data Activism 86 ✓ CSO Capacity Development and Management 86 iii. Original Publications 86 ✓ Project Preparation and Budgeting Techniques for the EU and Development Agencies 87 ✓ Public Expenditures Monitoring Series 92 ✓ NGO Studies - Training Book Series 96 ✓ Network Project Publications 99 ✓ Introduction to Legislation for Youth 100 ✓ Magnifier to the Address Project Publications 101 ✓ Baykuş Youth Training Series 104 ✓ Youth Studies and Youth Policies in Turkey 104 ✓ Towards Democratic Schools Project Publications 106 iv. Translations 106 ✓ Council of Europe and European Union Youth Collaboration Training Kits 108 ✓ Network Project Translations 110 ✓ Living Library Organizer’s Guide 110 ✓ Compasito: Manual on Human Rights Education for Children viii contents 111 v. Research Publications 111 ✓ Power2Youth Research Project (2014 - 2017) 112 ✓ Status Analysis of Germany-Turkey Youth and Student Exchanges 113 ✓ Participation of Youth in the Labor Force and Youth Unemployment: Key Indicators, Policies and Approaches 113 ✓ The Experiences of Young Women in the Family-Market-State Triad: Girls that stay at home and girls that go out and work. 114 ✓ Ways of Seeking Rights from the Perspective of Children Study (2014) 114 ✓ Comparative Research Project on Youth and Media 115 ✓ Policy Recommendations for Supporting the Local Participation of Youth 115 ✓ Youth and Social Rights Report 115 ✓ University Students’ Freedom of Expression and Association 116 ✓ Housing Problems of University Students 116 ✓ The Development of Youth Policy Indicators in Turkey Based on the Problems, Needs, Desires, and Suggestions of Young People in Youth Organizations 117 ✓ Gender Perceptions of Primary School Children (2011) 117 ✓ Child Well-Being Research Project (2008 - 2010) 118 ✓ Youth Mobility Research Project 118 ✓ Youth Mobility: A Look at the European Voluntary Service 118 ✓ Monitor Report on Youth Work in Turkey 119 ✓ Istanbul Youth: Does CSO Membership Make a Difference? 119 ✓ Youth Unemployment in Turkey 119 ✓ Parents’ Perception of Gender and its Impact on Child Raising (2012-2013) 120 vi. Youth Research Fund (2015 - ...) 121 vii. Games 121 ✓ Network Board Game: A Participation Game (2014) 122 ✓ Children Have a Say Board Game (2009) 122 ✓ Why Not? Card Game (2012) 123 ✓ What if Street Card Game (2012) 123 ✓ Life is Difficult Board Game (2007) F - INSTITUTIONAL CONSULTING AND COLLABORATION 127 INSTITUTIONAL CONSULTING AND COLLABORATION 127 ✓ Youth and Employment Focus Group Study for Esas Holding (2015) 127 ✓ Education Volunteers Foundation of Turkey (TEGV) Volunteer Participation Development Project (September 2015 - August 2016) contents ix 128 ✓ Child Friendly Local Initiative (2013 -2015) 128 ✓ Support Workshops for TEGV Volunteers (2013 - 2015) 128 ✓ Children’s Rights and Children’s Rights Workshops (2009 - 2015) 129 ✓ Youth Friendly High Schools Project (2013 - 2014) 129 ✓ Expansion of Children’s Rights Training Program (2013) 129 ✓ From Peaceful Schools to Social Peace Project (2011 and 2013) 130 ✓ Rights Stage: Children’s Rights Program (2010 - 2011) 130 ✓ Assessment of the Impact of Rights in Education Project (2008) 130 ✓ Capacity Development Training and Training of Trainers- Positive Living Association (2007) 130 ✓ Capacity Development Training for Local CSOs in Zeytinburnu/ Istanbul (2006) 131 ✓ Training Program for the Ministry of the Interior, Department of Associations Capacity Development Training for Trainers (2005) 131 ✓ Social Support for the Democracy and Human Rights Project (2005) 131 ✓ Equal Citizenship, the Participation of Disabled Individuals and Disabled Women (2005) 131 ✓ Other seminars and meeting for which support has been provided G - PROJECT INDEXES AND CSOS WITH WHICH WE HAVE WORKED 137 PROJECT INDEXES 157 CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS WITH WHICH WE HAVE COLLABORATED Preface ver the past twenty years since its founding, Istanbul Bilgi University has continuously sought to be an excellent university and to make unique and 0 positive contributions to Turkey’s university system. Shoring up our en- deavors has been our objective to deliver a sound university education with aca- demics who are top notch in their fields. One of the key aspects of being a city university is being tightly intertwined with the community and the city. This gives rise to synergetic relations