Flying Broom Foundation, an unflagging advocate of gender equality in Türkiye for years, created a digital platform accessible to everyone with the ‘E-Pass for Equality’ Project, supported in the Third Phase of the Civil Society Support Programme.

 

CSOs from seven regions came together to develop a curriculum on gender equality as part of the project, carried out to ensure women’s participation in decision-making mechanisms, strengthen their active citizenship skills, and facilitate organised action on human rights. A major activity of the project was capacity building for CSOs on such issues as women’s rights, human rights, gender equality, participation, and advocacy.

 

Ceren Kurt from the project team pinpointed the major driving force for the Foundation in implementing the “E-Pass for Equality” Project as the unfaltering belief in the struggle of women and women’s organisations. “The vision of Flying Broom is to create change to achieve a fair and equitable world for everyone, where women are empowered, and gender equality is sustained. To achieve this change, it is imperative for us to create awareness on a variety of issues, that include violence, legal rights, inequalities in representation, visibility, production, and creativity,” Kurt added.

 

Bringing together women’s CSOs

The Flying Broom Foundation visited seven regions of Türkiye and organised networking and information meetings while establishing the digital platform. The Foundation worked together with women’s CSOs on the content, structure, and visual design of the digital platform in a series of meetings held in the cities of Adana, Ankara, Gaziantep, Istanbul, Izmir, Trabzon, and Van. The “e-Equality Digital Learning Platform” was launched with the participation of all of the CSOs that have contributed to the platform.

 

The platform, created with the motto, “Equality for All”, is designed not only for women or CSOs, but for anyone who wants to learn up-to-date and accurate information on gender equality. The all-encompassing and inclusive platform consists of four main modules:

 

• Basic concepts
• Law
• Media and new media
• Advocacy

 

Each module was sound recorded for the visually impaired to access the platform. The trainings are free of charge, and participants successfully completing the trainings receive certificates. Anyone interested in thorough and scientific information on gender equality, both in text and in videos, can access the platform at eesitlik.ucansupurge.org.tr.

 

Project coordinator İlayda Önal maintained the significance of the project, reminding that the project provided the opportunity to come together with CSOs across Türkiye and contribute to capacity building on gender equality. For Önal, the project serves as a major achievement for the women’s rights.