The development objective of the Sustainable Cities Project for Turkey is to improve the planning capacity of and access to targeted municipal services in participating municipalities and utilities.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) if a land parcel remaining after partial expropriation of a land is economically unavailable, this remaining part will be acquired and compensated on demand of the land owner (at full replacement cost); (2) if agricultural land and crops lost during the lease, the owner should be compensated for the crop losses for the duration of lease. If land is used for business and income is affected during the lease, the business shall be compensated for losses for the duration of the lease; (3) providing assistance in finding a new place, moving, and shipping allowance. Compensate for income earned from the land, crops, and any investment made on the land, in a manner that they will not be worse off than before the project; and (4) transitional assistance to re-establish business in new location and compensation for lost income (depending on case and time lost) as necessary.
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The development objective of the Sustainable Cities Project for Turkey is to improve the planning capacity of and access to targeted municipal services in participating municipalities and utilities.
... See More + Some of the negative impacts and mitigation measures include: (1) if a land parcel remaining after partial expropriation of a land is economically unavailable, this remaining part will be acquired and compensated on demand of the land owner (at full replacement cost); (2) if agricultural land and crops lost during the lease, the owner should be compensated for the crop losses for the duration of lease. If land is used for business and income is affected during the lease, the business shall be compensated for losses for the duration of the lease; (3) providing assistance in finding a new place, moving, and shipping allowance. Compensate for income earned from the land, crops, and any investment made on the land, in a manner that they will not be worse off than before the project; and (4) transitional assistance to re-establish business in new location and compensation for lost income (depending on case and time lost) as necessary.
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Vulnerability and Protection of Refugees in Turkey: Findings from the Rollout of the Largest Humanitarian Cash Assistance Program in the World assesses the targeting performance and benefit level design of the Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) program for refugees in Turkey.
... See More + It also provides a comprehensive look at the vulnerability of ESSN eligible households using a multidimensional lens, drawing from novel representative data. The ESSN provides monthly cash transfers to help the most vulnerable refugees meet their basic needs, and complement Turkey’s response to the crisis. With near 4 million refugees, Turkey hosts more refugees than any other country in the world. The program is funded by the European Union member states, and implemented nationwide in partnership with the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Services, the World Food Programme, and the Turkish Red Crescent. The study finds that the vulnerabilities of the ESSN refugee population are multiple and complex. Refugees in the ESSN program suffer from a shortage of resources today, but also resort to coping strategies that cripple their resource-generating capacity tomorrow. The ESSN targeting criteria are relatively effective in selecting the most vulnerable refugees, but exclude a share of the poor. This issue is starting to get addressed by decentralized allowances targeted with community-level information. The ESSN cash transfer value is found to be adequate to support basic needs. An untargeted design would have minimized exclusion errors, but would reach everybody with smaller transfers, insufficient to meet basic needs. Future analysis will focus on the impact of the transfers on household welfare.
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Women's economic empowerment is not a new issue; nevertheless, it continues to challenge governments and development assistance agencies. One of the reasons for this hurdle may well be that gender advocates and growth devotees are speaking different languages when there is a huge space for them to collaborate effectively and pursue both agendas simultaneously.
... See More + This paper outlines a framework for gender-enhanced growth diagnostics that can be used to identify win-win solutions based on policies that target jointly the binding constraints to economic growth and those limiting female economic participation. The welfare gain from such a reform surpasses the gain from a pro-growth reform addressing only the binding constraint to growth or that from a pro-gender reform aimed at closing gender gaps. Using Turkey's country growth diagnostics and data on gender gaps, the paper uses the approach to identify those constraints to women's economic empowerment that align with national growth priorities and may therefore gain greater traction with policy makers.
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Policy Research Working Paper WPS8847 MAY 07, 2019
