Türkiye Outcomes Partnership
Creating employment opportunities in the ICT sector for long term unemployed young adults in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Location
Türkiye
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Launch
Aug 2023
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Area
Education, Employment & Housing
Collaborators & funding partners
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Turkish Ministry of Industry and Technology (MOIT)
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Istanbul Development Agency (ISTKA)
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Etkiyap
Delivery Partners
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Enocta (Tobeto brand)
Collaborators & funding partners
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Turkish Ministry of Industry and Technology (MOIT)
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Istanbul Development Agency (ISTKA)
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Etkiyap
Delivery Partners
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Enocta (Tobeto brand)
Overview
Our Türkiye Outcomes Partnership delivers Istanbul Kodluyor (‘Istanbul Coding’), an employment programme in Türkiye which supports young people to retrain and secure jobs in the technology sector.
The youth unemployment rate in Türkiye is estimated to be at least 20% (this may underrepresent the challenge), meanwhile the country’s ICT industry is growing. The challenge is a skills mismatch: high demand for ICT jobs but very few candidates with the required skills.
Istanbul Kodluyor’s Türkiye-based specialist partner, Enocta, aims to provide training and opportunities for 600 unemployed young adults, helping them to gain employment in the ICT sector, improve their earnings potential and move them away from poverty. The programme is open to young adults aged 18-35 years old, who have been unemployed for at least 12 months, with a particular focus on promoting opportunities for women in the sector.
Türkiye Outcomes Partnership’s Istanbul Kodluyor programme is a two-year pilot, and the first social outcomes partnership in Türkiye; the intention is to scale across Istanbul and other cities and regions in the country.
Delivery innovations
An outcomes approach has enabled us to create a more flexible, effective environment, ensuring more successful delivery. Though the programme is in its early stages, some examples include:
- Taking an innovative cross-platform approach to candidate recruitment, supported by ISTKA, leading to a significant volume of candidate recruitment.
- Creating innovative multi-channel training content and delivery methods, using experienced industry trainers, helping participants showcase work/experience to prospective employers.
- Collaborating to redefine suitable job codes and terms (e.g. “in education”) for the programme contract, to ensure we reached the right people.
- Creating a leading, secure data system, allowing teams to track and improve delivery and outcomes.
Outcomes
Istanbul Kodluyor is currently in its early stages; but we have already exceeded our recruitment target by over 200 young people. As the programme progresses, we will update this page with further outcomes achieved. Stay tuned!
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832
Young people have started the programme
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59
Entered into employment