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Workshop on how to implement the European Charter for Equality

The Turkish Union of Municipalities (UMT) organised in collaboration with SALAR a two day workshop in Ankara on how to implement the European Charter for Equality.

The training offered a unique opportunity for the 16 Turkish municipalities that signed the Charter to gather and exchange experience on their work.

Ann-Sofie Lagerkrantz from Kalmar municipality (Sweden) presented different methods on how to implement gender equality, in particular the strategy of gender mainstreaming. She also gave practical examples of initiatives from Sweden.

Johanna Törnström (CEMR) gave an introduction to monitoring and also presented the toolkit and the indicators developed in the framework of the Pilot project.

Participants were invited to reflect upon their work and share both good practices and challenges. Some of the main difficulties that municipalities mentioned were organisational issues, coordination and staff fluctuations related to change of political mandate. Other challenges related to the lack of gender disaggregated data.

The municipalities highlighted the need to draft an action plan to set out a framework for the activities. So far, 3 signatories have drafted action plans and a 4^th one is currently working on it. UMT will liaise with CEMR to gather these examples and make them available soon via the Observatory website.

The workshop was organised in the framework of the project “TUSELOG” aiming to strengthen local governance in Turkey funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).