Key information
Research tracks: Track 3 – Time to change/break the rules
Country: Türkiye
Researchers: Cargla Parlak, Hilal Gencay, Akduran Erol and Ekin Aklar
Summary
The project seeks to contribute to creating a transformative, collaborative, feminist, and accountable financing ecosystem for feminist organizations in Türkiye. This initiative will contribute to a more equitable and sustainable funding environment by:
- Transforming the Official Development Assistance (ODA) financing.
- Developing strategies for the private sector to take on this social responsibility alongside public funds.
- Adapting to the Turkish context examples of feminist solidarity that have already been implemented in different parts of the world and have been effective in transforming the funding ecosystem.
- Strengthening local feminist movements by promoting collaboration, sustainability, and accountability.
Advocacy Asks
- Contribute to the transformation of Official Development Assistance (ODA) funding in the Turkish context so that funding becomes more context-responsive and sustainable. Additionally, the funding process should also become more equitable, participatory, and feminist.
- Urge governments and international institutions to uphold and leverage their Feminist Foreign Policy commitments, along with other international commitments to reform funding mechanisms.
- Call on the private sector to step up and take an active role in supporting feminist organizations and advocate for the creation of favorable conditions, that encourage private sector investment in feminist initiatives.
- Emphasize the importance of feminist organizations in Türkiye learning from and adapting successful international examples of feminist financing ecosystems.
Methodology
This methodology involves stakeholder mapping and engagement, conducting in-depth interviews and focus groups, and performing a literature review to analyze and improve funding mechanisms for feminist organizations in Türkiye.
