Foundation for the Support of Women's Work
Foundation for the Support of Women's Work
Kadın Emeğini Değerlendirme Vakfı (KEDV)
Istanbul
FSWW works for the creation of more equal societies by promoting grassroots women’s leadership and empowerment.
Partner Focus Areas
Grassroots women’s leadership and organizing
Women-led community development and elimination of poverty
Women’s participation in disaster preparedness and response
Partnership Highlights
Partner since 2002
Grassroots leadership training for women’s cooperatives
Promoting Syrian women’s leadership, employability, and entrepreneurship
Gender equality in disaster preparedness
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Capacity Building for Cooperatives, Women and Children Centers, and Individuals
- FSWW provides capacity-building support for women’s cooperatives to improve their product and business development, increase the scale of their economic initiatives, and maximize their social impact. FSWW helps cooperatives to identify niche sectors and to develop innovative, economically viable business models. The program increases the engagement of grassroots women in various areas of economic development, including increasing their livelihood and access to services. FSWW helps women to create their own solutions and knowledge through alternative and collective business models, and to increase their access to market and finance through building alliances with the private sector and others.
- FSWW supports the establishment of women-run Women and Children Centers, over 20 to-date. FSWW trains women in how to establish childcare centers based on their specific needs, in their specific communities. FSWW shows them how to mobilize local resources, and how to provide early childhood education and support for mothers. FSWW’s Women and Children Centers have served as a model for similar programs in Canada, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, and the United States.
- FSWW provides basic entrepreneurship-skills training (entrepreneurship and financial literacy trainings, mentoring, networking, product development, and marketing) for low income women to run micro business enterprises. FSWW founded Turkey’s first microfinance institution, Maya, in 2002 to provide microloans to women who want to start or grow their micro businesses.
[After joining cooperatives,] women who have been ignored or felt invisible are demonstrating very strong, transformative leadership. [They seek] education and training on various issues and they are negotiating and building dialogue.
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The number of Syrian refugees living in Turkey. Turkey also has 10,000 Iraqi refugees, 95,000 Ukrainian refugees, and 1.1 million internally displaced persons. The World Factbook