Türkiye

Name

Capacity Building Centre for Civil Society

Implemented by

Civil Society Development Centre (STGM – Sivil Toplum Gelistirme Merkezi Derneği)

Purpose:

Capacity Building Centre for Civil Society aims to contribute to responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels in Türkiye. To that end, it puts effort to foster capable, effective and future-proof CSOs ready to change and to manage the change based on a shared understanding of the future and the role of civil society in shaping it. The Capacity Building Center, in that regard, will serve for strengthening the skills of civil society organisations to improve resilience and to ensure that good governance principles have been integrated, enhancing the effectiveness of CSOs to engage in policy development, advocacy works and service delivery, and expanding the civic space as a precursor of a more democratic future through the expansion/dissemination of values of autonomy, participation and innovation.

Services for CSOs:

Offering Help Desk Services for CSOs, including information provision, giving advice and direct technical assistance; Conducting an institutional coaching programme; Extending technical assistance to EU-funded projects; Providing for local CSOs organisational capacity development and digital empowerment programme; Implementing a civil society school programme (online and face-to-face) to build organizational management, planning, monitoring and evaluation and digital literacy, right-based advocacy skills and capacity; Organising events to foster civil society dialogue, networking and collaboration; Running campaigns for prominent issues concerning civil society at national level; Preparing info notes on technical and legal issues concerning CSO management and relevant legislation; Publishing weekly e-bulletins; Offering resource materials, manuals and guidelines for CSOs; Developing webinars/info meetings on various topics related civil society; Organising Civil Voices Festival

Timeframe:

February 2021 – November 2024

Address and contacts:

Buğday Sk. 2/5, Çankaya, Ankara

bilgi@stgm.org.tr;
Tel: +90312 442 42 62

Contact Persons:

1. Tezcan Eralp Abay

General Coordinator
tezcan@stgm.org.tr

2. Mert Altıntaş

Project Coordinator
mert@stgm.org.tr

 

 

 

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