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Final Report of International Youth Leadership Academy

2010 - 2013

Prepared by Elif Kalan and IYLA team

November 2013, Istanbul

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Content

Foreword ................................................................................................................................................. 4

IYLA’s Approach and Vision ..................................................................................................................... 6

Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 7

Local and National Partnerships.............................................................................................................. 8

Global Partnerships .............................................................................................................................. 11

Training Curriculum .............................................................................................................................. 13

National Program .............................................................................................................................. 14

International Trainings ....................................................................................................................... 20

Comments from trainees… .................................................................................................................. 21

International Attention .......................................................................................................................... 25

Madam Ban’s Visit .............................................................................................................................. 26

Dream Photo ......................................................................................................................................... 27

Results in numbers ................................................................................................................................ 31

Results ................................................................................................................................................... 32

Profiles ............................................................................................................................................... 33

Information and Communication .......................................................................................................... 34

ONline UGLA. ...................................................................................................................................... 34

Facebook: Uluslararası Genç Liderler Akademisi - Ugla/Iyla ............................................................ 34

Project Partners .................................................................................................................................... 35

Habitat Center for Development and Governance (Habitat) .............................................................. 35

Save the Children (Netherlands)....................................................................................................... 35

UNICEF ............................................................................................................................................. 36

United Cities and Local Governments, Middle East and West Asia Section (UCLG-MEWA) ........ 36

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Foreword

The International Youth Leadership Academy (IYLA) was coordinated by Habitat between

September 2010- September 2013. From the very beginning, it has been witnessed thatthe academy

waswelcomed by many young people and more importantly owned by them together with

continuous support of all partners. As a coordinator, I would like to express my gratitude to all

volunteer trainers who have been organizing local trainings all around the country and I am very

happy to have met with them. Without their willingness and excitement, none of these activities and

trainings could have been done. In addition to our volunteer trainers, I also appreciate the volunteer

support of our partners in developing the curriculum of the training topics: Sabancı University CAR

Program, Bilgi University Child Studies Department and Center for Research and Implementation of

Human Rights Law, BABİL Documentary Movie Association, Başkent University Communication

Department “Hate Speech” Working Group, Lawyer Özlem Kara, and EKO-IQ. Lastly, I also would

like to thank the team at Habitat Office: Tunç Karaçay, Dilara Gök, Dilan Kaya, Zeynep Arslan, Ayşe

Taşpınar, as well as Anıl Gökrenk, Sait Çetin, İlhan Ermiş, İdil Şerifoğlu, Mustafa Özer, Bora Caldu,

Cihan Kaplan, Serdil Demir, Başak Saral and Sezai Hazır. We have believed in this project together

and I am very sure that we will keep continuing and expanding our trainings as well as continue

cooperating and sharing with today’s partners.

Last but not least, IYLA had been developed within a partnership between CORIO and Save the

Children Netherlands, UCLG-MEWA and WALD, and UNICEF-Turkey. Each partner had a specific

role and provided support which contributed to the gradual development of IYLA in its focuscities

and regions. Therefore, we would like to congratulate our partners in taking social responsibility by

investing in people and more specifically youth.

IYLA project aimed to empower young people in Turkey and neighboring regions ,(such as South

East Europe, Caucasus, MENA and Central Asia) to enable them to be local leaders with equipped

knowledge, skills and attitudes they need. Therefore, we proudly say that 147 young volunteer peer

trainers have been empowered through national training programs and they accomplished to expand

their knowledge to more than 4590 disadvantaged youth in 41 cities. In addition to this, through

international trainings, youth organizations and young people themselves from 26 countries have

been empowered on youth and child rights and participation, conflict resolution methods and

approaches together with UNICEF Turkey and Sabancı University CAR Program leadership. IYLA

with growing demand has become a significant venue for young people and youth organizations who

believe in youth capacity and leadership.

During this academy project, that the student feedback we have received was:

- “IYLA is my second home”

- “I realized that discrimination is very serious problem. I think this training should be

generalized all around Turkey in order to get rid of hate speech”,

- “This training made a contribution to my social and business life. After this training, I decided

to improve my attitude towards conflict resolution”

- “The simulation games about negotiation and mediation taught us many significant insights

related to conflict resolution. Additionally, I learnt something about active listening and

dialogue”

- “After this training I will give more importance to art in my life”

- ”I did not care about discrimination and hate speech before. But now I know it is important

to think about this topic. This training changed my perspective and motivated me to

eradicate my prejudices”.

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Many comments and feedbacks from young people all around the world prove that we are on the

right way but also remind us that we need to work harder to keep this energy alive.

Subsequently, three years of IYLA has finalized by September 2013. However, IYLA network both in

Turkey and in the region has been growing and expanding with volunteer power and willingness of

youth. This final report presents accomplishments and displays activities of IYLA within its period.

Elif Kalan – Project Coordinator

Dilara Gök – Project Assistant

Tunç Karaçay – Project Assistant

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IYLA’s Approach and Vision

For IYLA young leader is a person who

is aware of discrimination and take

necessary measures to eliminate

discrimination; respects and protects

others’ rights as well as her/his;

advocates for those rights; uses

peaceful means to resolve conflicts; is

environment-friendly; uses right-based

approach in his/her activities.

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Introduction

The joint project of International Young Leadership Academy (IYLA) began under the coordination

of Habitat Centre for Development and Governance (Habitat), with support of United Cities and

Local Governments Middle East and the West Asian Regional Section (UCLG-MEWA), CORIO

which is a Dutch company, and with the partnership of Save the Children Netherlands office in

September 2010. World Academy of Local Governments and Democracy (WALD), and UNICEF

provided valuable support and technical assistance for the development and improvement of the

academy and training curricula. CORIO, as a partner, financially supported IYLA. Save the Children

Netherlands office assisted the communication and management of the IYLA and provided training

sessions for IYLA students. UCLG-MEWA as an international organization provided the venue for

IYLA within the protocol signed among Habitat, WALD, and UCLG-MEWA. UNICEF supported the

project to reach young people through its regional offices and to invite international experts on child

and youth rights and participation for international and national trainings.

IYLA was established with an aim to set up a contemporary youth leadership training center and

international training school to provide a suitable environment for non-formal education, capacity

building and the enhancement of leadership skills among young people. This center, within the

protocol and partnership with UCLG-MEWA, was renovated by the financial support of CORIO.

Therefore, before kicking off the trainings, a renovation process took place for 3 months in the

center building located in Istanbul.

To realize this aim and empower youth, IYLA has provided several trainings on Information and

Communication Technologies, Computer Literacy, Communication, Project Management, Good Governance,

Participation to Decision-Making Processes, Financial Literacy, Discrimination and Hate Speech on New

Media Environment, HIV/AIDS, Documentary Movie Making and Social Responsibility, Negotiation and

Mediation and Child and youth Rights and Participation, and Climate Change.

Further, the aim of the program was to reach over 3000 youth (between 15 and 30 years old) within

3 years (2010-2013) through IYLA trainings . Trainees invited not only from Turkey but also from the

neighboring countries of Turkey (Southeastern Europe, Caucasus, Mediterranean, Middle East, North

Africa, and Central Asia). Therefore, IYLA has an enormous effort and ambition to serve as a

regional training center for young people .

Based on peer education methodology, volunteer trainers facilitated the local trainings and

workshops in 41 cities.

In addition to local trainings, international trainings were held with support of Save the Children and

UNICEF. The first international training was organized in September 2011 with the participation of all

partners from the Netherlands and Turkey. At this training, the mayor of Istanbul, who is also the

head of UCLG Kadir Topbaş and Istanbul governor participated along with the CEO of CORIO,

general manager of Save the Children, president of Habitat deputy representative of UNICEF and

young participants from South East Europe, Caucasus, MENA and Balkans.

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Local and National Partnerships

IYLA aimed to expand its knowledge and skills through developing partnerships with local instutions:

schools, municipalities, governorates, local NGOs and public institutions. Having said this, IYLa

trainings were organized at high schools, universities, local youth centers and councils. Hereby, you

can see the list of institutions and schools which engaged with IYLA activities and hosted IYLA

workshops:

Şişli Governorate (District of Istanbul)

TEGV – Turkish Educational Volunteers Foundation (Samsun, Yalova, İstanbul, İzmir, Denizli…)

Hayat Sende Akademisi Youth Association- Ankara

Korunmaya Muhtaç Çocuklar (KORUNCUK ) Foundation - Bolluca Orphanage Village- İstanbul

Türkiye Çocuklarına Yeniden Özgürlük Vakfı – Re-Autonomoy Foundation of Turkey

Yaşayarak Öğrenme Youth Center (YAŞÖM)

Sivas Cem Foundation – Sivas

Gençlik Kozası – Çanakkale

Turkish Medicine Students Association - Balçova-İzmir and Ankara

Young TEMA - Sivas

Aydın Youth Center

Bingöl-Solhan Education Association

Eskişehir Red Crescent Youth Wings

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Alternatif Youth Association – Gaziantep

Siirt GAPGENÇ Festival 2012

Adıyaman Youth and Culture House

Batman Youth and Culture House

Diyarbakır Youth and Culture House

Gaziantep Youth and Culture House

Şanlıurfa Youth and Culture House

Siirt Youth and Culture House

Kilis Youth and Culture House

Adana Youth Council

Van Youth Council

Denizli Youth Council

Alanya Youth Council

Düzce Youth Council

İzmir Kent Konseyi Youth Council

İzmir Karabağlar Youth Council

Denizli Youth Council

Diyarbakır Youth Council

Adapazarı TES-İş Anadolu High School

Ordu Endüstri High School

Muş Ağaçlık Secondary School

Tavas Anadolu High School

Tavas Bekir Güngör High School

Kahramanmaraş Baydemirli Boybeyli Secondary School

Silifke Taşeli Schools

Şişli Yunus Emre High School

Şişli Ahi Evran High School

İstanbul Açı High School

Niğde University

İstanbul Bilgi University

Galatasaray University

Cumhuriyet University

Kocaeli University

Harran University

Özyeğin University

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Global Partnerships

Together with its global partners Save the Children and UNICEF, IYLA accomplished to reach out

disadvantageous young people through developing partnerships with local youth and development

civil society organizations in neighbouring regions of Turkey.

International trainings focused on youth participation/empowerment and conflict resolution with an

aim to develop not only the capacities of young people but also the local institutions working on

rights and advocacy.

Here is the list of organizations that took part in IYLA international trainings:

Center for Children's Rights of Montenegro (Montenegro)

Save the Children (Libya and Iraq)

NGO PEN (Peer Educators Network) / Unicef Innovations Lab (Kosovo)

Anima Polis Association (Romania)

PARTNERË PËR FËMIJËT (Albania)

Association of citizens “Sane Childhood” (Macedonia)

Human Rights and Conflict Research Institute (Armenia)

ASDAA association for Deaf (Egypt)

Academy for Peace and Development (Georgia)

Bina Movement Foundation (Tunisia)

Young Leaders Public Union (Azerbaijan)

Youth Development AIDA (Jordan)

Algerian Red Crescent Association (Algeria)

Interkulturni Susreti (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

AXIOS-MISION MUJER (Mexico)

ALFA GENERATION (Romania)

Youth movement REVOLT (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

Model Organization of Islamic Cooperation (Egypt)

Action Aid Denmark (Jordan)

Association of law students and young lawyers Pavel Satev Kocani (Macedonia)

Regional youth Office-Uzice (Serbia)

Association of culture and art "Pejo Markovic" (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

Youth In Action Association (Afghanistan)

PIC: Peace International Center (Tunisia)

NGO "Public Advocacy" (Georgia)

Gjakova Youth Centre (Kosovo)

Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports – Gençlik ve Spor Bakanlığı (Kosovo)

Sri Lanka Islamic Student Movement Sri Lanka. (www.slism.org)

Obdusdman for Children (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

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Armenian Community of Georgia (Georgia)

Children Charity Club (Kazakhstan)

Qiriazi Center (Kosovo)

Krik Juravlya (Kyrgyzstan)

Day care center for children and youth (Montenegro)

"Kamolot" - humanitarian movement of youth (Uzbekistan)

"Romaversitas" (Macedonia)

Legebitra (Slovenia)

Handicap International (Tajikistan)

Center for Interethnic Cooperation (Russia)

NGO Alternativa (Moldova)

Tema, Turmepa and President of Koç University Volunteers Environment Community (Turkey)

Alternative Youth Association (Turkey)

Şişli Youth Council (Turkey)

Kumbara Sanat (Turkey)

İzmir Youth Council (Turkey)

Red Crescent Eskişehir – Youth Wings (Turkey)

National Youth Parliament (Turkey)

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In total all IYLA Trainings conducted within the program have reached 4590

young people through 147 young volunteer peer trainers who have organized

local activities and trainings in 41 cities between September 2010-2013. In

addition to IYLA national training curriculum, IYLA also organized and

supported trainings on ICT, financial literacy, and entrepreneurship trainings.

Our volunteer trainers from 41 cities as well as from various NGOs

facilitated local trainings. With international trainings and our

international networking training, 111 young people from 29

countries have also been reached.

Training Curriculum

Trainings under IYLA were organized at three levels: training for trainers, local trainings and

international trainings. Since the beginning, trainings were organized and coordinated by Habitat.

Five main training topics at the national level which are Discrimination and Hate Speech, Negotiation

and Mediation, Climate Issues and Environment, Child Rights, Active Volunteerism, and Documentary

Movie-making and Social Responsibility have been developed together with our partners and our

supporters as well as academia and civil society organizations in the context of a national program. In

addition to these topics, ongoing trainings on ICT, Financial Literacy, Entrepreneurship and etc have

been organized under the support and coordination of IYLA. Therefore, we managed to empower

more young people than targeted. Besides the national program, four international training sessions

have been organized to expand knowledge and approach of IYLA in targeted regions.

Documentary Movie Making

and Social Responsibility;

224; 5%

Discrimination and Hate

Speech on New Media; 508;

11%

Negotiation and Mediation;

1874; 41% Financial Literacy; 99; 2%

ICT Literacy; 28; 1%

Technology and Entrepreneursh

ip; 53; 1%

Child Rights and Youth

Participation; 653; 14%

Volunteerism; 609; 13%

; 542; 12%

Trainees

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National Program

National curriculum was developed partnership with academia, NGO and local institutions. Five new

training curriculum was developed and applied in 41 cities with volunteer young trainers. Below, you

can see the detailed information about the trainings and numbers.

Active Volunteerism

Supporters and contributors Active Volunteer-ism

United Nations Volunteering Program (UNV)

Reach out 13 cities

609 children and youth beneficiaries

13local trainings and workshops

Information

Training of trainers was conducted on Active Volunteer-ism in

December 2012 in partnership with UNV Turkey office. A tot

was organized in order to raise awareness on volunterism,

undertsnading of volunteerism; to increase the capacity of local youth

NGOs on volunteer management; to enable youth in advocating

volunteer initiatives. Therefore, young people who participated in this

training were volunteer or professional youth workers who would

contribute to the development of volunteerism culture.

Content:

Understanding volunteerism – Who/what is a volunteer?

Volunteerism- as a tool for sustainable development

Stakeholder in advocacy

Volunteer Management

Volunteer Policy

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Child Rights and Participation

Supporters and contributors Bilgi University Child Studies Program

Reach out 11 cities


40 local trainings and workshops

Information

Third Trainer of Trainers (TOT) was conducted on Child

Rights and Participation on 15-20 July 2012 in Istanbul,

together with Child Studies Development of Bilgi

University, TOT was organized in order to raise awareness

on child rights and participation and to implement “Child

Rights” game with 11-14 years old children.

This training was specifically targeted children between 11-

14 years old

Content

Introduction to Child Rights

Child Rights Convention

Child Rights Principles

“Child Rights” game

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Documentary Movie Making And Social Responsibility

Supporters and contributors Babil Association of Documentary Movie Making

Reach out 6 cities



Information

Training of trainers was conducted on Documentary Movie

Making and Social Responsibility on 11-15 February 2011 in

Istanbul, together with Babil Association of Documentary

Movie Making. TOT was organized in order to raise

awareness on documentary, youth and methods to develop

advocacy movies on social responsibility.

Content:

Art

Cinema and Documentary Cinema

Verbal History

Social Responsibility and Cinema

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Conflict Resolution: Negotiation and Mediation

Supporters and contributors Sabancı University Conflict Analysis and Resolution Master’s

Program: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nimet Beriker , students - Ayşe

Taşpınar, Cihan Ak, Nihan Sakarya ve Tunç Karaçay as well

as Safiya Nuryyeva, Jubjam Vila, Süheyla Nurlu,

Pelin Çiftçi, Arjola Balılaj, Azat Nuriakhmetov, Sena Tek,

Hatice Özen, Ismail Aliji, Gülcihan Çiğdem.

Reach out 34 cities

1570 youth beneficiaries


Information

Two TOTs were conducted on Negotiation and Mediation.

First one is in May 2011 and the second one was held in May

2013. The content was developed by the MA students at

Sabancı Uni CAR program together with the supervision of

Assoc. Prof. Nimet Beriker. The aim of these trainings was

to empower youth on negotiation and mediation knowledge and

enable them to gain skills on methods through interactive

practices.

Content:

Negotiation: Methods/Types – Simulations

Mediation: Methods/Types – Simulations

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Discrimination And Hate Speech On New Media

Supporters and

contributors

1st phase: Attorney Özlem Kara, Prof. Mutlu Binark –, Doç. Dr.

Günseli Bayraktutan Sütçü (Başkent University), Tuğrul Çomu –

Ankara University

2nd phase: Gökçeçiçek Ayata, Burcu Yeşiladalı - İstanbul Bilgi

University Human Rights Center, Assistant. Prof. İdil Işıl Gül and Ulaş

Karan (PhD)– Bilgi University Law Faculty, Assoc. Prof. Kenan Çayır –

Bilgi University Sociology Department

Reach out 14 cities



Information Two TOTs were conducted on Discrimination and Hate Speech topic.

First one is in February 2011 and the second one was held in

December 2012. The aim of these trainings is to empower youth on

discrimination and hate speech content, to raise awareness on discrimination

practices in daily life, to introduce mechanisms to fight with discrimination

and hate speech on media and daily practices and finally to enable the

beneficiaries to experience cases through interactive practices.

Content 1:

Human Rights

Themes and Concepts of Discrimination Law

National and International Law on Discrimination

Precautions to stop Discrimination

Content 2:

From prejudges to discrimination

Discrimination and International Law

The role of CSOs in fighting against Discrimination

Hate Speech on New Media

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Climate Teams

Supporters and contributors EKO-IQ

Ayşe Bilge Dicleli / Barış Doğru

Reach out 11 cities



Information Training was conducted on focusing Climate and

Environment Challenges and Local Youth Initiatives on 26-

30 September 2012 in Istanbul. This TOT was organized

in order to raise awareness on local climate and environment

problems and issues by youth among local citizens. Hereby,

training is planned to establish local youth climate team

members who lead local advocacy campaigns, write on offline

and online media on issues and increase knowledge on climate

change. At the end of the TOT, a blog was established:

http://iklimtakimlari.blogspot.com/

Content:

What is Habitat?

Global Climate Change and its effects

Solutions at the personal and city level

Consumption Behaviors in combating

environmental problems

http://iklimtakimlari.blogspot.com/

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Thousands of

applications were

received from more

than 80 countries in

for international

trainings of IYLA and

only 117 selected

for the trainings

from 29 countries.

Three international

trainings were organized

with a focus of

empowering youth

leaders in rights,

participation, citizenship

and social responsibility.

to join All trainees also

were informed about

youth participation for

post 2015. We have

worked with Ravi

Karkara who is a master

trainer on youth

participation. Ravi is also

a person who not only

encourages, and

supports youth; he is

also a strong defender

of youth rights at all

levels, and in any location.

Training on conflict

resolution: negotiation

and mediation was

organized in partnership

with Sabancı University

CAR program students

in supervising of Assoc.

Prof. Nimet Beriker.

The training aimed at

increasing conflict

resolution skills and

knowledge of the

trainees whom from

post conflict countries.

Therefore, it foreseen

that training would empower youth in

resolving conflicts in a

peaceful way.

Participants’ countries: Afghanistan

Albania

Algeria

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Croatia

Egypt

Georgia

Iraq

Jordan

Kyrgyzstan

Kazakhstan

Kosovo

Libya

Macedonia

Mexico

Macedonia

Montenegro

Moldova

Morocco

Romania

Russia

Serbia

Sri Lanka

Syria

Slovenia

Tajikistan

Tunisia

Turkey

Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan

Yemen

More thoughts

from our leaders:

Why attend an

IYLA training?

“We are not only young

people. We were only 29 youth

from 17 different countries.

We can now reach hundreds,

and thousands of people. And if

more youth take part in this

training, they can also reach

thousands of people.

Therefore, we can reach

millions of people. More Youth

for a Better Future!”

What is your plan

of action?

“I will organize many meetings

within my school and

organizations. I will inform the

students and youth about their

rights, human rights, and the

rights of children with

disabilities. After the meetings, I

will create a group that wants

to improve the lives of youth

and work on these topics. Then

I will organize some campaigns

to get support from the local

government.”

-- Ihsan Mercan, Turkey

International Trainings

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Comments from trainees…

From international trainings...

“It was very good training. I’ve learned a lot. Programme content was very beneficial for me. I had

too much information about the world we want, 2015 guide etc. Trainers were very kind and ,

creative. They taught many methods to use. I expected some follow up, follow a project. But I’ll do

my best with my own” (25, Male)

“The training was of a great use to me all the knowledge received will certainly be helpful for me to

realize my future initiatives. Thanks to Ravi for the greatest inspiration. I am proud to become a

better world agent now.

Conflict resolution session was absolutely helpful as this is a part of what I am studying and really

interested in” (24, Female)

“If I have another chance I’ll not hesitate to participate again” (25, Male)

“Thank you very much for all the work done which is very helpful in our lives. I, became more self-

confident and it was very interesting to hear all these ideas from participants especially when you are

coming from different countries.

I’d like to receive all the materials, presentations because I really want to share them with the people

(youth, adults, teenagers) in my home country. Thank you ” (22, Female)

“A beautiful experience that has motivated me for further work, to become an even more active

citizen and to give back to the world. Made some amazing friends (pampis), learned few words from

other languages, and gained a huge knowledge on these topics. Special thanks to Elif. She was our

biggest support and she made an amazing workshop. Overall,I enjoyed every second and I hope that

we will stay in private and business touch” (18, Male)

“This was my first experience abroad. For this reason I tried to be reserved. But the outcome of this

training is incredibly valuable. I gained a lot. I realized my strengths and weakness. Overall, I achieved

my goals. This event was a milestone in my life. It helped me to choose my future career.” (22, Male)

“It was a great experience!!! Not only professionally, but also personally”(22,Female)

“I would have liked that we had more time on discussing discrimination. This is a really important

thing. I was shocked to realize that I am discriminating people. Thank you a lot for helping me, to

know, to explore myself, and have a chance to change!” (20 Female)

“These projects should continue.” “Focusing on Youth is very important cause we are the future's leaders.ı liked that specially middle east ,NA,Caucas, and Balkan have a lot of similarities in cultures .”

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“You can organize additional trainings for all participants .” “I would like to participate in more role plays , they are really effective to understand global issues.

the training was great and ı am truly thankful for it.” “I will use all gained skils and knowledge that ı got here for my future project on HR education.”

“Building a network in the region is a good idea.” “This is a good training because it brought together people from different cultural and educational backgrounds and from 3 continents.” “It is one of the best training that I have ever got cause it was international and it was not like going school and attending a class.ı have had fun ,learned about human rights (especially children),heard about NGOs .”

Some comments from national trainings…

“I realized that people who are perceived as not one of us are actually one of us.” “This training provided me to realize that how much I have contributed to discrimination acts and shared posts including hate-speech on new media and made me to think who I am” “I become more conscious about who I am and who might I be.”

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“I realized myself. I found answers to the question of Who am I. I saw that there is no ‘other’, but just ‘we’.” I realized that I have been part of “Hate Speech” from time to time. We have been informed about how we can fight against discrimination and hate speech. I have noticed that we have not spent time to eliminate discrimination at our work.” “This training is more than I expected. I have noticed my prejudiges of myself.” “This is a very important training in the sense that it is the first time such training was held on this very crucial topic.” “This training provided me to face myself and understand my prejudices.” “One of very important thing about the training was that participants came from different cultures and cities.” “It was great to be trained by a disabled trainer.” “I had a chance to understand and get to know individuals from LGBTT societies, people from different ethnicities and backgrounds.” “I have seen that how discrimination has naturalized in our daily life. During the training, I have asked myself many times ‘Did we really do such things?’ “Although I have been faced with discrimination many times in my life, with this training, I realized that I have also discriminated people on different basis."

“Training was more than I expected.” “I very much liked the idea of ‘internalizing the documentary movie.’” “The most interesting session was ‘Oral History’ practice.” “I have very much enjoyed visiting the exhibition of Frida Kahlo.” This training seriously changed my point of view about life. “ “The theoretical part of the training was amazing.” “I have realized that “oral history” is much powerful than “written history”.” “I have realized that it is not only related to the object that is being shot but rather the music, color, and initial idea.”

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“I can recognise if there is a negotiation happening around me.” “I can name it if there is a negotiation happening around me.” “I am a good negotiator.“ “I know lose-win results of the negotiations.“ “I am well aware of the relation between negotiation and mediation.” “I can easily figure it out if there is a conflict or not.” “I can easily spot the mediator during a conflict.” “I can easily name it if there is a mediation happening around me.” “I can differentiate the mediator around me.” “I frequently experience mediation.” “I know the stages of mediation.” “The trainers from Sabancı University were very successful. This was the most successful training I have ever participated in.” “At the end of the training, I have felt that this training enabled me to develop my theoretical understanding on the topics.” “Training topics were very good. It could have been less theortical and more practical. But again, it was very good training.” “If we could have more time, we could have more practical simulations. It would help us to understand the content.” “I understood that to be a good mediator, you need time and experience.” “I realized that negotiation and mediation are the processes that we already have experienced in our daily lives.”

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International Attention

The academy was opened by the

participation of all high-level executives of all

partners as well as the mayor and the

governor of Istanbul.

Together with our Dutch partners, Save the

Children and CORIO, the academy was

officially opened for young people to benefit.

Dutch partners also supported the visibility of the academy in the Netherlands. Within this, one of

our trainers with disadvantaged backgrounds opened the Stock Exchange in the Netherlands in

October 2012.

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Madam Ban’s Visit

United Nations General Secretary Ban-ki Moon’s wife Madam

Ban, visited IYLA on the 6th of June 2012. During her visit,

Madam Ban had the opportunity of meeting IYLA’s partners

CORIO, Habitat, UCLG-MEWA, UNICEF, WALD and the

trainees and trainers of IYLA’s trainings. In addition, after

learning in great detail about IYLA’s work, Madam Ban

emphasized the importance of young people’s participation in

such activities. She also congratulated IYLA’s partners for their

support.

Students of the Şişli Nuri Akın High School, Yunus Emre High

School and Şişli Ahi Evran Vocational Trade High School

participated in the visit of Madam Ban and had the opportunity

to discuss a number of topics with her.

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Dream Photo

Güven Uyanık is 22 years old and he has been on wheel cheer since he was 14. He has

multiple sclerosis disesase. His sister has the same disease. He lives in Ümraniye which is

also a district of Istanbul in which immigrants from Turkey live. He is originally from Bitlis.

He is at the high school and tries to follow the courses from home.

Güven Uyanık is dreaming of connecting to the world with his computer at home. Being

aware that he is disabled, he knows that he cant move as he wants due to the lack of

environmental and physical regulations around him. However, he thinks that through using

internet and social media, he can be where he wants to be. In addition to this, he also thinks

that he can make monet out of this. When we look at his photo, we see that he is

connected to the city behind him with the lap top he has on his laps.

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Gizem Büyükduran is 18 years old. She is studying Economics in English at Istanbul

University. She is a member of Beşiktaş Youth Council. She is an active volunteer there.

Gizem Büyükduran is dreaming of becoming a writer. She is interested in writing poems

and essays. She says: “When I write poems, essays; I can actually see different worlds, touch

nice ideas , and even smell them if I want to. That's my dream! :) I've shared so much

together with my poems, essays. I can't live without literature! :)”

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Dilan Kaya is 21 years old young woman lives in Istanbul. She is studying urban and regional

planning at Istanbul Technical University. She has been volunteering at Habitat for 3 years. She

began working as a volunteer at Diyarbakır Youth Council when she was in Diyarbakır. She is

originally from Diyarbakır.

Dilan Kaya is dreaming of flying. She has been very active and taken part in various projects.

However, she said that since she was a kid she wanted to fly. In th photo, she is on the little

island called meadien’s tower. She tries to fly from there while she admires of birds flying

above her. These birds are the symbol of bosphores and they company the ships going around

the Bospohores.

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Barış Yılmaz is a high-school student at 17 years old. He is at the last year of high shcool

and he has been studying for university exam. He is a volunteer at Sultangazi Youth Council in

which Sultangazi district of Istanbul which is mainly populated by domestic migrants from

different parts of Turkey. He is one of them.

Barış Yılmaz is dreaming of becoming an actor. When he came to trainings at the Academy

in summer 2011, he mentioned that he’d like to be either a lawyer or actor, yet he is now

decided to become an actor. We can see on his picture that he would like to be on the stage

and ready with his make-up.

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Results in numbers

Sinem Akbulut is 23 years old. She dropped out of the university where she was studying Physics in Muğla. She came to İstanbul to settle and study photography. She is interested in

photography professionally. She works part-time jobs to save some money for her education.

She will take the university exam this year.

Sinem Akbulut is dreaming of being a photographer and seeing different part of the world with

only one backpack. Her photo was taken in one of the very crowded streets where you can find

people from all over the world. So, for now, she has been lost in this crowd with her camera.

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Results

IYLA team conducted trainings on various topics. In addition to IYLA cirriculum, IYLA also supported

and operated trainings on following topics. These are the number of the trainings and trainees who

attended the trainings.


and Social Responsibility

4%

Discrimination and Hate Speech on New Media

11%

Negotiation and Mediation

41% Financial Literacy 3%

ICT Literacy 1%

Technology and Entrepreneurship

1%


Participation 18%

Volunteerism 14%

7%

Trainings


and Social Responsibility;

224; 5%

Discrimination and Hate Speech on New Media;

508; 11%

Negotiation and Mediation; 1874;

41%

Financial Literacy; 99; 2%

ICT Literacy; 28; 1%

Technology and Entrepreneurship

; 53; 1%


Participation; 653; 14%

Volunteerism; 609; 13%

; 542; 12%

Trainees

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Profiles

IYLA trainings at the local, national and international level mainly reached out to young people

between 15-30 years old. Young people who have disadvantaged background or who live in

underserved communities specifically were targeted in the local trainings. In order to do those local

trainers develop partnership with education administrations, orphanage houses, local authorities.

Therefore, IYLA trainings reached out to the students living in very rural areas such as Bingöl, Solhan,

in villages such as in Kahramanmaraş, as well as underserved districts such as Kuştepe in Istanbul.

Together with this, many young people who attended IYLA trainings are university students who

have lack of opportunities to take part in such non-formal education; therefore, local trainers also

focused on universities and cooperated with university clubs. Lastly, as it can be seen, young

individuals who either heard from friends or through social media applied to take part in the local

trainings. Therefore, IYLA network has increased immensely.

See impact assessment reports on web: http://www.uglakademi.org/upload/mce/tr_iyla_report.pdf

Student 86%

Full-time 7%

Unemployed 4%

Part Time 2%

Seasonal

1%

Occupational Profile

Female 58%

Male 42%

Gender

Individuals

63%

Youth NGO 16%

Youth Council

8%

University Club

13%

Institutional Profile

University

71%

High school 29%

Graduate

0%

Education

http://www.uglakademi.org/upload/mce/tr_iyla_report.pdf

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Information and Communication

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Appendix 1 Project Partners

Project Partners

Habitat Center for Development and Governance (Habitat)

Habitat International Network was established at the Copenhagen Social Development Summit in

1995, and has approximately 300 members in nearly 100 countries, Habitat was founded as an

association by engaged youth of the United Nations Human Settlements (Habitat II) Conference,

which was held in 1995 in Istanbul. The purpose of the association was to improve the capacities of

youth and to support the participation of local and national decision-making processes. Habitat has

undertaken various projects and programs, during a 15-year period, with different social groups,

including children, youth, women, and disabled people. With the partnership of Women, Youth,

Children Councils, and Councils of Disabled People configured all under the umbrella of the National

Youth Parliament and City Councils, Habitat contributes to The United Nations’ Millennium

Development Goals with the creation of urban policies on the basis of rights, access to information

and effective use of communication technologies, awareness of social gender and sexual

health/reproductive health, development of entrepreneurship and financial knowledge and skills, and

ensuring environmental sustainability.

Habitat’s mission is to support children, youth, women, and the disabled in terms of sustainable

development and participation in decision-making processes through developing the capacities of

young people.

CORIO

Corio N.V. is a Dutch-based commercial real estate investment company which owns and

manages shopping centres. Headquartered in Utrecht, the Netherlands the firm primarily consists of

a portfolio of retail properties worth €7.2 billion in the Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain, Germany,

and Turkey.[1]The company was formed in 2000 by the merger of the property funds VIB and

WBN,[2] initially also investing significantly in office buildingsand other commercial property. These

activities have since been scaled back in favour of retail real estate. At the end of 2010 around 4% of

Corio's holdings were in properties other than shopping centres, down from 47% in 2000.[1] The

company is listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange and Euronext Paris and is a constituent of the

benchmark AEX index since March 2008.

Save the Children (Netherlands)

The Save the Children Fund,[1] commonly known as Save the Children, is the largest internationally

active non-governmental organization that promotes children's rights, provides relief and helps

support children in developing countries.[2] It was established in the United Kingdom in 1919 in order

to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and protection, as well as

providing emergency aid during disasters,.

In addition to the UK organisation, there are 29 other national Save the Children organisations who

are members of Save the Children International, a global network of nonprofit organisations

supporting local partners in over 120 countries around the world.

Save the Children promotes policy changes in order to gain more rights for young people[3] especially

by enforcing the UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child. Alliance members coordinate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_estate_investing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_mall

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utrecht_(city)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portfolio_(finance)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corio_(company)#cite_note-AR2010-1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corio_(company)#cite_note-2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_building

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_property

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corio_(company)#cite_note-AR2010-1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Stock_Exchange

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euronext_Paris

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEX_index

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_the_Children#cite_note-1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-governmental_organization

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_rights

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_the_Children#cite_note-savethechildren._net-2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_the_Children_International

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_the_Children#cite_note-3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_the_Child

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emergency-relief efforts, helping to protect children from the effects of war and violence.[2] Save the

Children has general consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

UNICEF

UNICEF is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to advocate for the protection of

children’s rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full

potential UNICEF is guided by the Convention on the Rignts of the Child (CRC) and strives to

establish children’s rights as enduring ethical principles and international standards of behaviour

towards children. UNICEF insists that the survival, protection and development of children are

universal development imperatives that are essential to human progress.

UNICEF mobilises political will and material resources to help countries, particularly developing

countries, ensure a ‘first call for children’ and to build their capacity to form appropriate policies and

deliver services for children and their families. UNICEF is committed to ensuring special protection

for the most disadvantaged children - victims of wars, disasters, extreme poverty, all forms of

violence and exploitation, and those with disabilities. UNICEF responds in emergencies to protect

the rights of children. In coordination with United Nations partners and humanitarian agencies,

UNICEF makes its unique capabilities for rapid response available to its partners to relieve the

suffering of children and those who provide their care. UNICEF is non-partisan and its cooperation is

free of discrimination. In everything it does, the most disadvantaged children and the countries in

greatest need have priority. UNICEF aims, through its country programmes, to promote the equal

rights of women and girls and to support their full participation in the political, social and economic

development of their communities. UNICEF works with all partners towards the attainment of the

sustainable human development goals adopted by the world community and the realisation of the

vision of peace and social progress enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations.

United Cities and Local Governments, Middle East and West Asia Section (UCLG-

MEWA)

As one of the eight regional sections of UCLG World Organization, United Cities and Local

Governments, Middle East and West Asia Section (UCLG-MEWA) continues its activities

from its headquarters in Istanbul.

International Union of Local Authorities, Section for the Eastern Mediterranean and

Middle East Region (IULA-EMME), as the predecessor of UCLG-MEWA, was established in

Turkey in 1987 as one of the regional sections of International Union of Local Authorities (IULA).

IULA-EMME has been transformed into UCLG-MEWA in 2004, in parallel with the creation and

restructuring of the UCLG World Organization.

Since its establishment, UCLG-MEWA continues its activities for cities and local governments in the

region, from its headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey, serving the main principles of democracy, human

rights, local self-government, international solidarity, accountability and transparency, and sustainable

development.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_the_Children#cite_note-savethechildren._net-2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_with_consultative_status_to_the_United_Nations_Economic_and_Social_Council

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