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WHAT SARIYER IS ABOUT KOC UNIVERSITY SOCIAL IMPACT FORUM http://kusif.ku.edu.tr 7/25/2013 This report is prepared by KUSIF SWOT Team, to understand Sarıyer from different perspectives, to be able to get to know the local area, people who live there, identify community needs and problems, and see how we could match these needs and problems with available sources. It is our priority to increase Koç University’s local impact and create social impact by working with local stakeholders in Sarıyer, since our university campus is located in this district. Prepared by SWOT Team Balam Bingül Dila Deneçli Handan Uslu İpek Akın Kübra Berberoğlu Murat Çetinpolat Nazlı Akbağ Sıla Zeka Advisors KUSIF Managing Director, Gonca Ongan KUSIF Assistant Project Specialist, Kazım Yılanlıdağ *For more information you can contact us: [email protected] I KOC UNIVERSITY SOCIAL IMPACT FORUM TABLE OF CONTENT 1. Information about KUSIF 1 2. Introduction 1 3. Methodology 2 3.1. 1st phase: Preliminary Study 2 3.1.1. Organizing the working group 2 3.1.2. Screening and collecting available data 2 3.2. 2nd phase: Face-to-face Interviews, Evaluation & Reporting 5 3.2.1. Organizing the working group 5 3.2.2. Choosing organization to have face-to-face interviews 5 3.2.3. Content of the interviews 6 4. General Information about Sarıyer 7 4.1. Social 8 4.2. Economic 8 4.3. Environmental 8 5. Stakeholders in Sarıyer 9 5.1. Governmental Institutions 11 5.1.1. Sarıyer Municipality 11 a) SAKEM (Sarıyer Municipality Women Coordination Center) 11 b) Sarıyer Disabled People Coordination Center 11 c) Micro Credit Center 12 5.1.2. Sarıyer District Governorship 12 a) Sarıyer District Food, Agriculture and Livestock Management 5.2. Non-Governmental Organizations 12 5.2.1. Associations 12 a) Disability Associations 12 KOC UNIVERSITY SOCIAL IMPACT FORUM II Six Dots Foundation for the Blinds 13 b) Educational Associations 13 Darüşşafaka Education Association 13 Lean Institute Association 13 c) Environmental Associations 14 Kilyos Kumköy Association for Protection of Natural Environment and Environmental Culture 14 5.2.2. Social Entrepreneurs 14 5.3. Educational Institutions 14 5.4. Other Organizations 15 5.4.1. Small Businesses through cooperatives 15 a) Beekeeping Cooperative 16 b) İstinye Fishery Cooperative 16 c) Sarıyer Neighborhood and Villages Women Farmers’ Cooperative Agricultural Development 16 5.4.2. Health Institutions 17 5.4.3. Local Media 17 6. SWOT Analysis of Sarıyer 17 6.1. Strengths 18 6.1.1. Ability of Offering Trainings 18 6.1.2. Capacity of Collaborations and Forming Network 18 6.1.3. Potential to Increase Impact on a Local Scale 18 6.1.4. Being Competent & Expert in Their Fields 19 6.2. Weaknesses and Threats 19 6.2.1. Lack of Human Resources 19 KOC UNIVERSITY SOCIAL IMPACT FORUM III 6.2.2. Lack of Funding for Projects 20 6.2.3. Lack of Communication among Stakeholders in Sarıyer 20 6.2.4. Difficulty of Reaching Small Associations in Sarıyer 20 6.3. Opportunities 21 6.3.1. Awareness and Raising Projects 21 6.3.2. Training Projects for Stakeholders 21 6.3.3. Enhancing Sustainability in Sarıyer 22 7. Conclusion 22 8. References 24 KOC UNIVERSITY SOCIAL IMPACT FORUM IV 1. Information about KUSIF KUSIF (Koç University Social Impact Forum), located in Istanbul at Koç University Rumeli Feneri Campus, was founded in November 2012 as both “the Research and Practice Center” and “the Social Innovation Catalyzer”. KUSIF aims to measure, communicate, and create social impact through education, research and collaboration. KUSIF works closely with the Research Centers at KU to add nuances of social impact development & assessment to existing efforts. KUSIF will serve as a platform for research in various social innovation topics and social impact measurement, especially about Turkey. Additionally, KUSIF will carry out its own activities in collaboration with specialists or organizations in different disciplines and backgrounds. Stakeholders of KUSIF are Koç University (Students, Faculty Members, Staff and Alumni), Social Sector Members (NGOs, Public Institutions, and Social Entrepreneurs), and Private Ones (Enterprises, Entrepreneurs, and Intrapreneurs.) At present, KUSIF has an executive board and as well as a management team established by Managing Director Gonca Ongan and Assistant Project Specialist Kazım Yılanlıdağ. Also, other members of management team are Assistant Student Nazlı Akbağ and Interns Murat Çetinpolat, Sıla Zeka. 2. Introduction This report is prepared by KUSIF SWOT Team to understand Sarıyer from different perspectives, to be able to get to know the local area, people who live there, identify community needs and problems, and see how we could match these needs and problems with available sources. It is our priority to increase Koç University’s local impact and create social impact by working with local stakeholders in Sarıyer, since our university campus is placed in this district. In this regard, KUSIF SWOT Team was organized among KUSIF interns and assistant students as volunteer civil society coordinators. Members of SWOT Team are Handan Uslu, Balam Bingül, Dila Deneçli, İpek Akın, Kübra Berberoğlu, Nazlı Akbağ, Sıla Zeka and Murat Çetinpolat. KUSIF SWOT Team has contacted with stakeholders in Sarıyer via phone or e-mail, and had face-to-face interviews with many of them. In this report, first, we will explain our methodology that we have conducted while preparing the report in two phases. After that, we would like to give general information about Sarıyer, its history and its sustainability situation regarding environmental, economic and social aspects. Then, we will introduce you to stakeholders in Sarıyer. These stakeholders can be grouped as governmental, non-governmental organizations as associations and social entrepreneurs, educational institutions and other organizations as cooperatives, health institutions and local media. And lastly, as an outcome, we will run the SWOT (Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats) analysis of Sarıyer. The main point of these efforts is to be able to understand how we could generate social impact with stakeholders by creating sustainable programs and stakeholders’ networks in 1 the future. As expected, we will organize seminars and courses to be able to pursue these studies, and to share the knowledge gained during investigation process and field studies. In addition, KUSIF develops “Community Engagement & Leadership” Track and as well as a course on “Experiential Learning” to equip its students with tools to create social impact. This report and the study that we have run, will help also KUSIF to identify its local partners for field studies for the new course and the track. KUSIF aims to communicate results and knowledge about social impact creation through publications, regular events, visionary speaker series and annual symposiums. This report about Sarıyer prepared by students is the first output of SWOT Team. In addition, other reports on different topics about social impact issues will be prepared by the SWOT Team. 3. Methodology In order to prepare this report, we used the methodology below. The methodology is structured in two phases to be able to work efficiently. The first phase is Preliminary Study part where we gather the first information about stakeholders in Sarıyer. The second part is Interviews, Evaluation & Reporting part where we gather detailed information about selected stakeholders through interviews, evaluate, and report this information. 3.1. 1st phase: Preliminary Study This phase can be classified in two parts. The first part is organizing the working group which is called SWOT Team, and the second part is screening and collecting available data. What is covered in this phase is mainly getting information about stakeholders and their situation. In addition, SWOT Team chose the organizations that should be investigated more. 3.1.1. Organizing the working group In this regard, an announcement was made for undergraduate and graduate students to work at KUSIF as “Civil Society Partnership Development Coordinators" and six of them were chosen and worked for 2 months between 11th March and 6th May 2013 as team members. 3.1.2. Screening and collecting available data After the SWOT Team was formed, the list of NGOs and their contact information was received from Sarıyer Municipality and Sarıyer District Governorship. Other stakeholders’ contacts were searched on the internet. First of all, SWOT Team studied out more information about all the stakeholders in Sarıye,r and collected data about their activities and projects if there was any. According to Sarıyer Municipality, the number of NGOs established in Sarıyer is 225. (Sarıyer District Governorship claims the number of 2 NGOs are 378 not 225, however, since there is no classification of the organizations we considered the number which was obtained from Sarıyer Municipality). Furthermore, as you can see in Figure 1, most of the NGOs are either Mosque associations (59 - 26%) or Sport associations (51 - 23%), which are not included in this report. 83 NGOs (37%) were analyzed in detail. After that, SWOT Team contacted with the organizations which are still available to get in touch with, and which are actively working to check the data on hand from the source directly, associations themselves. At the end of the first phase, SWOT Team reached 32 organizations among 83 of them by the phone or e-mail. You can see the list of the organizations we have contacted (Table 1) and NGO distribution of Sarıyer according to their fields (Figure