General Information
About Development Workshop:
A group of young people established the Development Workshop group in 2003 to support and become a part national and international development efforts. The Development Workshop was then organized in November 2004 as a cooperative by experts and professionals from such diverse fields as social anthropology, sociology, physical anthropology, international relations, politics, biology and forestry. It is common knowledge that cooperative type of organization in the field of social development is quite rare in both Turkey and elsewhere. The reason for choosing this type of organization was to contribute to development of ideas in the field of development, become an active actor in different areas of development and to ensure democratic participation of partners to the management of the cooperative.
The Development Workshop is a cooperative established to support the development of the country and to contribute to the success, sustainability and replicability of projects at any scale. The Development Workshop develops and implements programmes geared to institutional capacity building in non-governmental organizations and producers’ unions in such areas as governance, social development, education, children and youth. The areas where the workshop is relatively stronger include development of development programmes and projects, research and capacity building, beekeeping, seasonal employment and working children.
Objectives of Development Workshop
• Mitigation of poverty and deprivation,
• Protection and development of natural environment,
• Strengthening the social status of women and gender balanced development,
• Combat against child labour,
• Developing regional cooperation,
• Sharing and solidarity,
• Designing sustainable development models.
Principles under the objectives of Development Workshop
• Mitigation of poverty and deprivation,
• Participation and openness,
• Sustainability and replicability and expandability,
• Disadvantages,
• Strengthening the social status of women and gender,
• Protection and development of natural environment.
Fundamental Working Principles of the Development Workshop
• Institutional independence,
• Openness and transparency,
• Originality and innovativeness,
• Efficiency and effectiveness,
• Freedom and democracy,
• Division of labour,
• Collaboration and solidarity,
• Scientific approach and objectivity,
• Participation,
• Volunteer work and development of human resources,
• Professional approaches.