UNHCR and Livelihood Programmes in Turkey Damla Taskin - Oslo,15th November 2017 - Wapes

UNHCR
              and
Livelihood Programmes in Turkey

         Damla Taskin

                        Oslo,15th November 2017

Current Challenges

• Desperation, no possible
  solution
• Difficult living conditions
• Lack of sufficient
  humanitarian funds
• Burden sharing

The Office of the United Nations
 High Commissioner for Refugees
• Established on December 14,
  1950 by the United Nations
  General Assembly.

• The agency is mandated to lead
  and co-ordinate international
  action to protect refugees and
  resolve refugee problems
  worldwide.

Mission of UNHCR
Strives to ensure that everyone
can exercise the right to seek
asylum and find safe refuge
in another State, with the
option to:
• return home voluntarily
• integrate locally
• resettle in a third country.

What does UNHCR do in Turkey?

• Provides technical support to
  the GoT and humanitarian aid
  to refugees in Turkey
• Cash, tents, heaters, winter
  support, education etc
• Resettlement                      Verification
                                       of all
• Protection for access to rights    refugees

DISTRUBITION OF REGISTERED SYRIANS BY AGE AND
                   GENDER

                                     2%1%                               0-4
                                3%                 14%
                           3%                                           5-9
                 4%                                                     10-14
                                      2%1%
                                 3%           15%
                            3%                                          15-18
           6%          4%                                               19-24
                                                                        25-29
                  6%                                              13%
                                                                        30-34
                                                           14%          35-39
      8%
                 7%                                                     40-44
                                                                        45-49
                                                                        50-54
                      9%             FEMALE                             55-59
                                                         11%     10%
           10%                                                          60-64
                                                                        65-69
                                     14%      8%
                                                                        70-74
                                                     9%                 75-79
                                     16%                                80-84
       MALE

OTHER NATIONALITIES AGE BETWEEN 18-59
250000

200000

150000

100000

 50000

     0
            AFG     IRQ       IRN        Others   SOM    Grand Total
Females    25623   34397     10247       3099     1549      74915
Males      83285   48849     15768       4331     1513     153746
Total     108908   83246     26015       7431     3062     228662
                       Females   Males   Total

Approach
                    What is Livelihoods?
• Livelihoods are activities that allow people to secure the
  basic necessities of life such as food, water, shelter and
  clothing.
• Livelihoods implies the transition from relief to self reliance.
• Income generation is key
• Wage employment or self employment

What is Livelihoods?

•   Integration its true sense!
•   You become a productive part of the society
•   You are not a burden but contribution to the society
•   Is it easy? Not exactly a walk in the park
•   Requires dedication, collaboration and resources from many
    parties including Governments

Approach

Refugees
• Entrepreneurs
• Micro Entrepreneurs
• Professionals (doctors,
  lawyers)
• Farmers
• Unskilled

Livelihoods Sector Priorities

 Enhanced capacities of national systems and increased
  cooperation
 Increase access to skills, language and vocational training
  according to market demands and individual interest
 Increase refugee access to information and services leading
  to employment
 Facilitate and strengthen access to enterprise start up and
  development opportunities as well as greater market access

Livelihoods Strategy Implementation
Modalities

  Cooperation with the Public Institutions
  Cooperation with the Private Sector
  Skills Building
  Fostering Entrepreneurship

               ISKUR, MoLSS, MoCT, MoNE, VQA
                 Governorates and municipalities

Operation in Turkey
 Market Assessment
 • İzmir, Bursa,İstanbul
 • Ankara, Kayseri
 • Gaziantep, Hatay,
   Urfa, Adana, Mersin

 Value Chain Analysis
 • Furniture
 • Mechanics
 • Automotive
 • Agriculture
 • Textile

Cooperation with GoT
 Ensuring inclusion in national
 systems for fair and equal
 service provision:

 •   MoLSS for work permits, advocacy

 •   MoCT for small businesses

 •   VQA for certification of skills,
     translation of Vocational
     Qualifications and standards

 •   MoNE for improvement of the
     capacity of PECs

Cooperation with GoT
ISKUR
 Awareness raising
 Guide to employment in Turkey
 Training Programs
     Job Counsellors:
         Total 251 - 81 provinces,
     Legal Counsellors to be trained

Cooperation with GoT

Cooperation with GoT
  Registration of Refugees in
   ISKUR database
  Tools, equipment, staff
  Global Training Programme
  Refugees and Employment
   Summit May 2018
  Implementation of Joint
   Programmes in 2018

Municipalities, Governors, Sub
Governors
    Ankara Metropolitan
     Municipality
  Seyhan Adana Municipality
  Mardin Yesilli Sub Governor
  Izmir Governor
  Sanliurfa Harran
  Istanbul
       Sisli, Zeytinburnu
       Kucukcekmece

Vocational Training

Skills Building

Skills and Language Training

Collaboration with the Private Sector
    Companies
        Multinationals and their supply
         chains
        Turkish companies
    Chambers
    Organized Industrial Zones
    Business Associations

Turkey Operation
Questions asked
• What is the biggest challenge
  currently with regards to the
  refugee phenomenon?
• Do you or your supply chain
  companies employ refugees?
• What is the way forward related to
  integration of refugees into the
  labour market?

Turkey Operation
What did we learn?

   • Lack of awareness
   • Fear, thinking the procedurewill be complicated
   • A macro competitiveness problem for various sectors
   • Fear of the unknown, language, myths
   • Lack of interest, indifference
   • Expectation of incentives

Collaboration with the Private Sector

Work Permit Regulation
    15 January 2016 Temporary Protection, 26 April 2016
     International Protection
    Refugees can work and establish businesses
    An employer can apply for a work permit
    6 months after registration
    Minimum wage
    10% quota
    Exemption in agricultural and livestock work

Entrepreneurship

  Start-ups
  Business Development Support
  Grants
  Licensing of non licensed
   businesses
  More than 6.500 companies in
   Turkey

Entrepreneurship
                   SYRIAN COMPANIES

                                                 1764
                                          1599

                                   1257
                                                        1192

                            489

     27     81       166

     2010   2011     2012   2013   2014   2015   2016   2017

Trainings   Counselling

                                Counselling on
            11.389              Work Permits and
                                Access to Labour
                                Market

                                Counselling on
                       34.864   Entrepreneurship

   15.502
                     46.253

Thank you