The United Nations Development Program is supporting employment in the textile industry in Turkey as a step towards earthquake zone recovery [EN/TR] – Türkiye

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A new $2.5 million initiative prioritizes vocational training to meet industry needs while including vulnerable groups in the workforce

Istanbul, 18 July 2023 – The United Nations Development Program today announced a new US$2.5 million initiative to fill up to 3,500 vacancies in the textile industry and related sectors in the earthquake-affected region while integrating women and other disadvantaged groups into the labor market. The new program, funded by the Government of Sweden with additional contributions from Korea and Finland, aims to address the severe labor shortage that emerged with the outmigration of skilled workers from southern and southeastern Turkey after the devastating earthquakes in February 2023.

The new initiative was announced today at a UNDP meeting of textile producers in Istanbul.

The program builds on UNDP’s ongoing partnership with the Education Foundation of the Istanbul Garment Exporters Association (IHKIB) established in 2022 with the aim of creating permanent employment opportunities for unemployed Syrian refugees and host community members in “labour absorbing” industries such as textiles. The idea here was to challenge the stereotype that refugees “steal” jobs from members of the host community by identifying sectors of the labor market where the demand for workers is not being met. Even before the earthquakes, the textile industry was experiencing an urgent need for new workers.

“Earthquakes have our assumptions on their heads,” said UNDP Resident Representative Louisa Fenton. “We now see an entire region where industrial producers are desperately ramping up to find and retain employees. So the solution we aim to implement with our private sector partners is to provide vocational training as widely as possible to bring women and other underrepresented groups into the workforce.”

UNDP is focusing on the textile sector (including clothing and footwear as well) due to its overall role in the Turkish economy – it accounts for about 7 percent of GDP, 2.9 percent of exports and employs up to 2.5 million people overall – and its The massive earthquake spread across the 11 quake-stricken provinces – where 1,616 clothing companies and 1,290 textile companies were operating before the disaster, employing up to 350,000 people. Estimates vary, but earthquakes are believed to have reduced this number by more than half.

“The aim of the initiative we are launching today is to create decent and sustainable job opportunities in the Turkish apparel and textile sectors for people left unemployed by earthquakes, including refugees,” said İlker Karataş, Board Member of IHKIB Education Foundation. . “In helping vulnerable and traumatized people get back on their feet after earthquakes, this project and similar support initiatives will also accelerate the recovery of vital industrial sectors, including textiles and apparel.”

Based on a set of studies and guidelines presented at the meeting, UNDP plans in the short term to provide on-the-job vocational training for 500 newly recruited textile workers in the earthquake zone, while expanding life skills and psychosocial support training to 3,000 textile workers and their families. . Psychosocial support was unanimously identified by industry representatives as a basic need for their workers, spurring UNDP’s commitment to establish an Occupational Mental Health Center in Hatay. While seeking to address the labor shortage, UNDP will also work with employers to meet “decent work” standards.

Looking ahead, UNDP plans to expand the vocational training program to ensure employment of at least 3,000 more people in the textile sector, as well as to launch a support program specifically targeted at the needs of handmade shoe producers in Hatay. These initiatives will be closely coordinated with UNDP’s ongoing $4.5 million program to provide recovery grants to small businesses in all 11 quake-affected counties, additional vocational training, business support and welfare initiatives implemented by the organization at home and abroad. earthquake zone.

For more information: Umut Dullun, Communications Assistant for UNDP Turkey, [email protected]

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