Resilience in Local Governance - Türkiye

In partnership with the Union of Municipalities of Türkiye, Marmara Municipalities Union and Çukurova Municipalities Union, Reslog Türkiye and more than 30 municipalities across Türkiye, Reslog Türkiye works for improving community resilience towards multi-layered shocks.

RESLOG Türkiye works with municipality associations and municipalities to make Syrian refugee and local communities more resilient through more effective local governance, peaceful co-habitation, equal access to inclusive services and improvement of livelihood opportunities.

Since 2018 RESLOG is a pioneer in the field of local governance and migration in Türkiye. This is achieved through a unique combination of high level expertise, innovative methods, cutting edge research, multi-level policy dialogue, knowledge generation processes, capacity development, and conflict & gender sensitive local actions in fields such as social services, urban development, migration management, community inclusion, environmental protection, and livelihood development.

Three levels of impact

RESLOG Türkiye works on three different levels to affect systems change, including:

1. Supporting national migration policies to better reflect local realities and needs
2. Enhancing regional capacity, cooperation and coordination on migration issues
3. Improving municipality planning and service delivery through inclusive local actions to enhance community resilience and active citizenship.

Fostering Peaceful Cohabitation

Peaceful cohabitation is at the center of RESLOG’s Türkiye programme. In order to develop institutional capacities to respond to migration-related issues, RESLOG supports enabling environments for stronger civic engagement and assists municipalities to make services more responsive to actual local situations. Enabling environments for peaceful co-habitation is fostered through active citizenship and structured interactions between municipalities and communities through networking, joint actions and awareness raising activities.

Ehancing Livelihood Opportunities

Another focal point for RESLOG Türkiye’s work is to provide more decent and greener livelihood opportunities for local communities and refugees. In collaboration with civil society organizations and with a special focus on women, RESLOG encourages local governments to take on the role as catalyst for greener and more inclusive local economic development. This is achieved through a variety of capacity development approaches, testing of local innovative models, and definition of programmes and guidebooks for municipalities.

Supporting Migration Policies

Finally, in order to support national migration policies to better reflect local realities and needs, RESLOG Türkiye helps bring local government perspectives on migration matters. RESLOG's position as an independent, impartial and fact-based arena for policy dialogue is a strong asset. By supporting local to local (horizontal) and local to central (vertical) government dialogue and knowledge sharing in parallel, migration related governance capacities are strengthened at a systems level.

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Marléne Hugosson
Project Manager, Türkiye
marlene.hugosson@skr.se