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We Support Local Non-Governmental Organizations Mavi Kalem provides mentoring support to four local non-governmental organizations as part of its mentoring program. The program consists of a peer support network with different mentor and mentee organizations. Each mentoring organization and mentee organizations form a cluster. The non-governmental organizations in the cluster ...

 Mavi Kalem has been an active member of the Core Humanitarian Standard Alliance since the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) was published in 2014. Since then, the Core Humanitarian Standard has been our fundamental ground to carry out our each and every project and work in an accountable and transparent manner. ...

How did we strengthen Mavi Kalem project team members in 2021? Since the day Mavi Kalem was founded, improving the capacity of our team in terms of building knowledge and communicating it, has been one of our primary goals. For this purpose, we come together with our teams according to ...

  We developed Mavi Kalem Moderator Trainings, with the aim of disseminating the Girls Empowerment and the Male Participation for the Empowerment of Women Workshop Series to more people. With these trainings, we aim for the participants to gain the competence to implement the workshop series in their own organizations. ...

We care about field-based work and localization. We create the dynamics of our workspace by opening local offices and establishing strong communication with local actors and society. We support the participation of target groups both in defining the need and developing the solution. To this end, we rapidly continue our ...

Gender inequality also deepens gender-based violence. Violence; is any behavior, threat, pressure or obstruction that may occur in private or social life that has or may have the result of physical, sexual, psychological harm and distress. While the majority of those affected by gender and gender-based violence are girls and ...

COVID-19 pandemic measures continue with the vaccination process. We continue the measures and follow-ups we apply in our offices. Thanks to these applications, we prevent the spread of the disease in our offices by directing our teammates who show symptoms of COVID-19 to health institutions. The Pandemic Protection Committee, which ...

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as in different types of disasters such as earthquakes and migration, it has been observed that women have difficulties in accessing their basic health rights and needs. Since many hospitals were declared as pandemic hospitals and many women could not go to remote hospitals using public ...

We carry out capacity building activities to support our working teams both in their work areas and psychosocially. Our capacity building activities since the beginning of this year have been Arabic lessons, communication studies and art therapy. Arabic Lessons Due to the Syrian refugees being one of our main work ...

2020 has been one of the most challenging years in Mavi Kalem’s 20-year life. Considering the COVID-19 pandemic, we have reorganized all our work and tried to get used to the pandemic. After working from home, we created environments in our offices where we can live with COVID-19. When we ...