“Encounters: Enhancing and Monitoring Civil Dialogue” Project, 2018-2020

The project which is funded by the EU and Turkey Republic, was designed to contribute to democratic participations of civil society organizations (CSO) in policy-making processes and improve CSO-Public dialogue and the private sector relationships embracing the diversity of society.

Within the scope of the project, 3 different researches were designed that feed each other. These researches; (1) Dialogue Mapping: Mapping the dialogue between civil society-public-private sector, (2) Dialogue Monitoring: Monitoring the dialogue among these sectors, and (3) Media Monitoring: The forms and dimensions that CSOs use to influence the decisions of the public and decision makers through media channels. Meetings, workshops will be held to meet with civil society, public and private sector representatives and opinion leaders in order to open and share the results of these researches. In this context; The results of the Dialogue Mapping study were discussed in the workshops to be brought together by bringing the relevant stakeholders together. Common Principles Workshop will be organized to meet with opinion leaders and CSOs to get suggestions and feedback on the Dialogue Monitoring research. Dialogue Round Table meetings will be held to share and discuss the results of the Media Monitoring research.

Within the framework of the priority of dialogue among CSOs, “Impact-Oriented Communication and Design” workshops were organized to serve to increase impact the capacities of the CSOs. After the workshops, case studies will be produced by consulting with a narrower group.

In addition, Meydan meetings are being held, which is a common ground for civil society where through deepening within the boundaries of the issues the civil society deals with, the civil society can break the polarization effect caused by the politics that transforms the diversity of ethnic, religious and cultural identities into power based shallow competition.