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WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS ASSOCIATION of TURKEY

• KAGIDER was established in 2002 with 37 women
  entrepreneurs. Today, we reached the total of
  172 members.
• Our Vision
• To create a world where women are effective in
  all decision making processes by producing and
  expressing their self  freely.
• Our Mission
• To develop women entrepreneurship to empower
  women in economic and social life.

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Membership Profile

• Age Range 29-67
• Education
• Geographical Location

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Membership Profile

• Field of Activity

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Membership Profile

• Number of Employees
• Annual Turnover 10 Billion Euro

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WOMEN STATUS IN TURKEY

• Education - Average education/ year women
  5.3 ,men 6.8 - Illiteracy rate women 19.4 ,
  men 6.1 Political Participation - Women hold
  9 of the seats in parliament. Employment
  - Participation in labour force women 24 ,men
  72 - 41.7 of women work as unpaid family
  workers - Womens economic participation
  urban 19 , rural 34 - Women are underpaid,
  earn 40 less than men
• Womens Entrepreneurship
• - Only 12.5 of the entrepreneurs are women
• - Only 0.9 of women in labour force are
  entrepreneurs

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KAGIDERs Activities

• KAGIDER performs activities through its
  committees
• 1- WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS DEVELOPMENT Committee
• 2- FOREIGN RELATIONS Committee
• 3- EU RELATIONS Committee
• 4- MEMBERSHIP Committee
• 5- COMMUNICATIONS Committee

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KAGIDERs Current Projects

• ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAININGS
• KAGIDER supports the women with a business plan
  in mind and aiming to become an entrepreneur by
  giving free of charge training. These trainings
  are followed by other forms of support, i.e.
  consulting, mentoring and incubation
  opportunities.
• KAGIDER-IM INCUBATION PROJECT
• Presently 5 new women are supported by KAGIDER
  through free office facilities, consulting and
  mentoring at the start of their new business.
• SO FAR, KAGIDER HAS GIVEN
• Entrepreneurship trainings to 1200 women
• Mentoring support to 11 women
• Incubation support to 9 women
• Internship opportunities to 52 women

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KAGIDERs Current Projects

• Womens EntrepreneurshipLeadership Center
• KAGIDER aims to open a center which, where
  besides all above mentioned functions are
  fullfilled, is a networking placemeeting point
  for women entrepreuners, for NGOS with its
  different facilities such as meeting rooms,
  conference hall etc.
• International Women Entrepreneurs Summit
• A three day long summit is planned in
  coordination with the USA in March 2009 where
  women entrepreneurs form the States meet Turkish
  ones, do networking, leaders as role models from
  all around the world will be keynote speakers and
  workshops, panels are held in parallel sessions.

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KAGIDERs Current Projects(continued)

• 5 cities 5 mini summits
• WIth the sposnsorship of Garanti KAGIDER aims to
  open new horizons to women who already are
  entrepreneurs but need to enlarge their vision.
  In order to realise this objective KAGIDER goes
  to five cities in Anatolia and organizes a one
  day mini summit, at which role models of star
  women entrepreneurs are holding keynote speeches
  and workshops about different subjects such as
  IT, merketing, communication etc. are held.
• BRIDGE FROM WOMEN TO WOMEN
• KAGIDER supports women of southeast Turkey,
  Mardin, in collaboration with a local NGO in
  production of traditional tablecloth and natural
  soap and also find marketing channels for both
  products through sponsoring companies, DHL and
  Johnson Diversey.
• WE-MENTOR
• Four EU Member states ( Belgium, Germany, Italy
  and United Kingdom ) take the lead to mentor four
  new comers to the topic of integrating women
  entrepreneurs into European Research (India,
  Israel, Romania and Turkey) as most women
  entrepreneurs are not reached by the mainstream
  information and support schemes for European
  Research and Technological Development (EU RTD).

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KAGIDERs Current Projects(continued)

• Generation Bridge for Gender Issues
• KAGIDER is the project partner of Ari Movement
  for this EU funded project which is taking place
  currently in 6 cities and 10 universities in
  Turkey. The aim of this project is to estbalish
  womens club at universities and through them to
  raise awareness about womens problems such as
  violance against women.
• WOMENS FUND
• Endowment fund raised from national and
  international institutions and individuals to be
  distributed to womens NGOs that operate to
  economically, politically and socially empower
  women. Supported 15 NGOs to date distributing
  300.000 in total. The theme for 2006-2007 was
  Violence against Women.
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KAGIDERs Network in TURKEY
We reached more than 6000 women in 20 cities in
Turkey.
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EU/Foregin RelaitonsEU Relations

• EU is the only way
• On 4th of March 2008, KAGIDER opened an office
  in Brussels.
• As an active womens non governmental
  organization of Turkey, KAGIDER believes in the
  integration into the European Union. Our Brussels
  office is planned to contribute to the
  negotiation process and for the improvement of
  the closer relations with the EU Institutions.

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KAGIDERs International Associations

• KAGIDER is a member of
• World Women Entrepreneurs Association (FCEM)
• European Women Lobby (EWL)
• Mediterranean Business Women Association
  (AFAEMME)
• Balkan Regional Coalition of Women Business
  Associations

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