Highlights • 45 MUV Cohort 1 graduates and 44 participants from Cohort 2 started working as chef assistants.

• MUV scaled-up to the provinces of Konya and Kayseri. The Vocational Training (VT) will start in mid-June.

• 36 EMPACT graduates started formal employment or set up their own businesses, yielding 32 per cent

employability rate. WFP Turkey Livelihoods Situation Report May 2021

Total number of MUV Monitoring 51% 49%

Beneficiaries ≈ 1448 • Regular on-site monitoring have been conducted at OJT (through 325 participants in MUV: 1 from locations. Cohort 1, 26 from Cohort 2 and 186 from • Endline surveys have been conducted with all EMPACT Cohort 3) and 112 participants in EMPACT) participants.

• Baseline surveys have been conducted with 20 Urban Kitchen of Hope (MUV) Agriculture project participants. • The Kitchen of Hope project aims to equip both Syrian refugees and Turkish citizens with culinary skills and MUV Scale-Up widen their career prospects. It is currently being • The call for applications has been initiated in Konya and implemented in nine provinces across Turkey. Kayseri and the deadline for applications has been extended until 4 June. MUV Cohort 1 • MUV Interviews will take place face-to-face in Konya and • 45 graduates out of 173 certified have been employed Kayseri between 7 and 11 June in outdoors, ensuring all

in seven provinces (Adana, Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Kilis, safety measures are taken against COVID-19. Mardin and Şanlıurfa), yielding an employability rate of • Kick-off meetings are planned with stakeholders, local 26 per cent. government authorities, selected participants and key

• 1 participant from Istanbul continued OJT and two private sector companies to launch the MUV programme, others in Istanbul (1) and Izmir (1) will start OJT in June. prior to the VT in late June/July. MUV Cohort 2 Soup Kitchen

• 96 participants graduated by completing the VT and OJT • The Soup Kitchen project aims to help cook and deliver modules and 19 participants continued OJT. hot meals to both Syrian refugees and Turkish nationals. • Seven participants will resume OJT together with Cohort 3 participants in June. • WFP Soup Kitchen assistance continued with Istanbul • 44 out of 96 Cohort 2 graduates accepted the offers and Sultangazi Municipality distributing 2,200 hot meals per started working at their OJT locations. The day to vulnerable refugees and Turkish nationals. employability rate for Cohort 2 currently stands at 24 • This support will keep running until the end of July 2021 per cent. and is part of the trilateral collaboration between WFP,

MUV Cohort 3 the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) • 245 participants completed VT in nine provinces (Adana, that started in July 2020 and came to a close in January Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Kilis, Mardin, Mersin, Hatay and 2021 for all soup kitchens with the exception of the Şanlıurfa). Istanbul one. • 156 participants continued OJT in May. To minimize dropouts, MUV participants received work permission letters allowing them to go to OJT during the full lockdown imposed between 29 April and 17 May. 30 participants will start OJT in June. Page | 1 Photo: MUV Cohort III participant from Ankara during the applied final exam for the vocational training

AOB • WFP Regional Director (RD), Corinne Fleischer, visited

EMPACT: Empowerment in Action Turkey on 27-28 May and had meetings with donors and EMPACT aims to equip both Syrian refugees and Turkish citizens aged government authorities. The RD also joined a field mission between 18 and 35 with digital skills through vocational and technical on MUV OJT and met with restaurant/hotel owners, Chef training. The project’s first pilot was implemented in the province of and programme participants. She also had an online call with EMPACT participants and private sector officials. Istanbul between September 2020 and January 2021. • WFP and CarrefourSA signed a letter of intent for the SES • 112 graduates (45 per cent female, 55 per cent male) completed (Socioeconomic Sustainability) project store attendant web development (67) and digital call center (45) trainings. trainings. CarrefourSA will support the interviews, ToT • 36 graduates started formal employment or setting up their own (Training of Trainers) and OJT processes. businesses, yielding 32 per cent employability rate. • WFP is currently meeting with local Turkish companies to

• Five participants completed and 33 participants continued OJT. establish collaborations for OJT. Negotiations are • 16 participants have been referred to the International ongoing. Organization for Migration (IOM) and 14 participants are still at the interview process with companies for OJT. Due to the June Outlook containment measures between 29 April and 17 May, the • The certification process for MUV Cohort 2 and Cohort 3

evaluation of these 30 participants might last until the end of participants will be completed in June.

summer. • SES: Chamber of Commerce/Industry meetings will continue, mapping of private sector companies on food packaging, housekeeping and store attendant will be NETWORK FRESH (Aş Ortağım) completed. • Outreach activities and call for SES applications to start.

• The Network Fresh project model seeks to generate a multi- impact outcome to reduce food waste, increase access to high- quality nutritious food for vulnerable households and improve living conditions of vulnerable populations in cooperation with municipalities and Dahataze. • Cash-Based-Transfers (CBT), Induction and kick-off meetings took place between WFP, Istanbul/Şiili Municipality and a start-up called DahaTaze. • SODEXO, a French food services and facilities management company and a project partner, will provide trainings on food/work safety and hygiene to Istanbul/Şiili Municipality on 16 June. URBAN AGRICULTURE • WFP, BUTKOOP (Istanbul/Büyükçekmece Municipality cooperative), and METRO (a wholesale supermarket) jointly

prepared the training schedule. The project implementation started on 24 May and the VT classes started on 31 May with 20 WFP Turkey would like to thank all donors for their female participants (10 Turkish, 10 Syrian). contributions to its livelihoods activities: • Cooperating partner assessments, CBT and induction trainings were given by WFP prior to the implementation. • The Urban Agriculture project’s aim is to grow and market a special type of okra in 25,000 square meters of land provided by Büyükçekmece Municipality.

Contacts:

Nils Grede, Country Director: [email protected] Pilar Domingo Vargas, Head of Partnerships and OIM: [email protected] Oya Nihan, Head of Ankara Area Office: [email protected] Melissa Loukieh, Communications Associate: [email protected] WFP Turkey Situation Report – ICSP Activity 4 Page | 2 May 2021