Şanlıurfa Business Women, Looking For A Solution To The Problems

Deputy Governor Soner Zeybek, AK Party Member of Parliament Abdulkerim Gok, Secretary- General of the Karacadağ Development Agency Ilhan Karakoyun (PhD), Secretary-General of the Special Provincial Administration Ugur Büyükhatipoğlu, Foundations Regional Director Müslüm Tüysüz, President of the Provincial General Assembly Mustafa Yavuz, Turkish Labor Organization Manager Necdet Karasevda, President of Chamber of Public Accountants in Sanliurfa Nihat TAŞ as well as the presidents and members of non-governmental organizations attended the meeting.In her opening speech, Cevahir Asuman Yazmacı, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Entrepreneur Business Women's Association (ŞUGİŞKAD) cited that the association is proud to host the closure meeting of our Project with the pride and joy of producing a meaningful report.  She also added that “A bunch of businesswomen who live in Sanliurfa and believe in the versatile richness of this region, came together in 2007 and established Sanliurfa Entrepreneur Business Women's Association and attempted to understand zeitgeist of our time in our region. Since that day, with constantly changing and evolving perspective we tried to employ an understanding going from local to the national. We’ve helped some women dream, sometimes supported them to realize their dreams. Sometimes we cried, sometimes we laughed with them, because we believe that development cannot take place at a desirable level unless women are transformed and empowered. The first condition for both social and economic development is, with no doubt, to develop women and to take them to stage. Here we have brought the team together with our friends from time to time as the consciousness of social responsibility We wanted to provide a positive contribution to this process through various projects. Therefore we submitted the Sanliurfa Women's Status in Business: Problems and Solutions Project to the Karacadağ Development Agency. Thanks to this project, women's labor market analysis was performed in Sanliurfa. 

Sanliurfa Women's Status in Business: Problems and Solutions Project Şanlıurfa Province Women's Labor Market Analysis was conducted within this project. Within this scope, surveys and  interviews were carried out with 68 SMEs, which are active in industry and commerce sectors , also with 509 unemployed women. In this way, it was attempted both to create the employee profile that is needed by companies and to prepare an employer profile of unemployed women. This study has been prepared and published as a report. As a result of this report, the training programs in the region will be able to be organized in line with the needs and demands as expressed in our study, and the human resources in our region shall be developed in accordance with the needs and potentials of our region.