Transcript Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey July 2008

Women Entrepreneurs
Association of Turkey
July 2008
KAGİDER Mission and Vision
Established in 2002, KAGİDER redefined its mission and
vision in February 2007 through a strategic planning
session.
Vision:
To develop entrepreneurship among women and to
strengthen the status of women economically and
socially.
Mission:
To create a world in which women ‘produce’ and
establish their existence freely and play an efficient role
in the decision making process.
KAGİDER’s Basic Activities I
1. To enhance and empower women’s
entrepreneurship and provide a sustainable
resource by establishing the Women’s
Entrepreneurship and Leadership Centre
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Serving as a reference to potential entrepreneurs
(handbook)
Providing infrastructure to entrepreneurship projects
through incubation, mentorship and consultancy
services
Empowering women entrepreneurs through
seminars, training and networking
KAGİDER’s Basic Activities II
2. Advocacy for gender equality
 Advancing policy recommendations in subjects of
employment and entrepreneurship
 Playing an active role in Turkey’s EU negotiation
process
 Promoting the gender equality agenda to increase
the status of women
Member’s Profile/Education
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175 members
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Primary school
High school
22%
Univesity
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Phd
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63%
Members’Profile/Demography
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City
Members
Adana
3
Ankara
10
Aydın
1
Gaziantep
1
İstanbul
146
Kayseri
Kayseri
2
Kırklareli
Kırklareli
2
Kocaeli
2
Kütahya
2
Mersin
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Members’ Profile/Employment
Number of employees
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26--50
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Women in Turkey and the EU
Turkish Woman
 Average age: 28
 Average life span: 71
 Lifetime education: 6 years
 Education: 70% high school and vocational school graduate, 24%
elementary, 910.000 university graduate
 25% of academics are women
 Women employment: 24%
 Women entrepreneurship: 9 %
 Difference in wages between genders: 30-35 %
 Women in senior management: 6 %
 The time women are spending in housekeeping and caring 5h 17
min/day, men 51 min/day
 Representation in parliament: 9 %
 Violence against women: 30 %
European Woman
 Average age: 39
 Average life span: 81
 Lifetime education: 10 years
 Education: 81% high school, 14% elementary, 59% university
graduate
15% of professors are women
 Women’s employment: 57 %
 Women entrepreneurship: 28 %
 Women’s unemployment: 9 %
 Difference in wages between genders : 15%
 Women in senior management: 33 %
 The time women are spending in housekeeping and caring
3h/day, men 1,1 h/day
 In the EU parliament: 30 %,
 Average of women representation in the national parliaments of
the EU member states 23 %
Entrepreneurship Projects
I. Training
 Entrepreneurship Training:
 KAGİDER has trained 1300 women to date through
entrepreneurship training and seminars.
 In 2008 KAGİDER developed its own trademarked trainings:
 “I am establishing my business” training
 “I am expanding my business” training
II. Incubation
 KAGİDER- Incubation Project
 KAGIDER has assisted women establish their own business
by opening the first entrepreneurs’ incubation centre in Turkey.
Women entrepreneurs that receive incubation support are
also provided consultancy services. Four women who have
participated in KAGIDER’s incubation have successfully
established their own brands and businesses.
The incubation centre will continue with a new group of
incubators, following the completion of 2008 training sessions.
III. Other Services
 Mentorship Services
Candidate entrepreneurs are matched based on personality tests
with KAGIDER members. The members mentor the candidates for
two years in both sectoral and personal matters.
 Consultancy Services
Moving forward the consultancy services that have formally only
been available to incubators, will be provided in 2008 to all women
interested in receiving the service. When requested, consultancy is
provided in areas of law, marketing etc.
IV. One of our dreams is coming true.
To reach more women, we are opening the
Women’s Entrepreneurship and Leadership
Centre
Women’s Entrepreneurship and Leadership Centre
(WELC)
KAGİDER has raised the required funds with the support of 21
companies, and is on her way to establishing a centre that will
provide all of the services mentioned above.
 KAGİDER has hired a professional manager to lead the WELC
Project
 KAGİDER is currently in the process of selecting a building for
the centre
 KAGİDER is in ongoing dialogue with prospective sponsors
This is what we dream of:
By the close of 2008 the WLEC will be open
Kadın Girişimcilik ve Liderlik Merkezi
V. Most Recently Completed
Projects
Bridge From Women to Women:
 KAGİDER supports women of southeast Turkey in Mardin, where
women comprise 76.1% of the illiterate population
 In collaboration with a local NGO, the project works with women
from this region to produce traditional tablecloth and natural soap.
The project also coordinates international marketing channels for
both products through sponsoring companies, DHL and Johnson
Diversy
 Bridge From Women to Women won the 2005 World Bank award
in recognition of initiatives that support local women
V. Planned Projects for 2008-2009
 KAGİDER has submitted a project proposal, in partnership with
ITO, to the EU funding program ‘Active Employment Measures’
 5 Towns, 5 Summits: : Adana, Kayseri, Eskişehir, Samsun, İzmir.
Through this program we will be enlightening the ways of women
entrepreneurs through Sept – Dec 2008
 International Women’s Entrepreneurship and Leadership
Summit. In cooperation with America Turkish Friends’ Council,
women entrepreneurs and leaders will gather in İstanbul in June
2009
 Academicians
 Leaders
 Role Models
Advocacy
I. KAGİDER asks for equal
representation of women in
parliament
 KAGİDER brought together women
members of parliament in Ankara on
September 4, 2007.
 On June 1, 2007, KAGİDER
organized a panel at Bahçeşehir
University on the representation of
women in political life.
 KAGİDER participated in the TÜSİAD
conference “The Empowerment of
Women in Political Life”.
II. Active with KSGM and the
Development of the New Civil Code
 As a member of the advisory group to KSGM,
KAGİDER gave a presentation on “Obstacles in Women’s
Employment and Possible Solutions”.
 KAGİDER participated in the Gender Budgeting
conference at the UN in New York from February 24 –
March 4, 2008.
III. Active participation in the
preparation of the civil code
KAGİDER participated in the top civil code platform
and women’s civil code platform
IV. Advocacy in Support of
Women’s Employment
 On Jan 10 KAGİDER posted its views on the new
employment package to the Work and Social Security
Minister and the Minister responsible for women
concerning the new employment package and asked for:
 Social Security Incentive programs for employers to hire
women
 The continuation of childcare services
 The employment package was approved on May 26
 5 year incentive to achieve the Social Security premium
 KAGİDER will work with the Minister responsible for women in
order to expand the application of this incentive
KAGİDER will carry out this campaign
V. Advocacy concernıng women’s
employment cont’d.
 KAGİDER delivered a speech at the summit “Lets remove
the clichés in the business world”
 KAGİDER participated in ILOs presentation “Women’s
Employment Status Turkey Report”
VI. Active Participation in the EU
Turkey Negotiation Process
 KAGİDER has successfully closed the EU funded project Women’s
Way to Europe
From February 14 – 15, 2008, KAGİDER participated in the
Intercultural Dialogue Conference series organized by Bilgi University
with a presentation called “Where do the Turkish and EU Women
meet?”
On February 19, 2008, KAGİDER’s board visited the president of
the Republic, Abdullah Gül and emphasized the need for an entity
above the EU negotiation process.
KAGİDER Brussells was
established
March 4, 2008
KAGİDER Brussells Office opened in the Tüsiad
Building
KAGİDER Brussells Office
Opens…
Great interest in KAGİDER
Brussells
 April 20-30, 2008 - Brussells invites Commissioner Spidla to visit
KAGİDER’s Brussels office
The EU is the Only Way
Gender Equality Report is Being
Renewed
 The 2007 EU Parliament progress report on Turkey will
be launched in July, with a section on gender equality
influenced by KAGİDER
TÜSİAD-KAGİDER Gender Equality Report:
 With KAGİDER’s proposal an EU section has been
added and will be launched in July 2008
 KAGİDER has started research about women’s
entrepreneurship
International Relations
International Membership
Associations
 European Women’s Lobby
 FCEM (Worldwide Network of Women Business Owners)
 Balkans Women Coalition
KAGİDER is Among International
Leaders
 June 2008: KAGİDER was invited by the Minister of Foreign Affairs
of Greece, Dora Bakoyannis, to the “Next Generation Initiative:
Local Business for Global Rights”
We are Continuing Our Way
We will continue to push for change to
advance the position of women.
By advancing policy and language that
includes a gender perspective, we seek
to remodel the system to protect and
ensure equal gender rights.
Thank you