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Add a Plus to Life Youth Fund was a partnership project between United Nations Development Program (UNDP)-Turkey, Coca-Cola Company and Youth Association for Habitat. The program reflected a strong governance practice as it was developed and implemented through the partnership of civil society, a private sector establishment, an international development institution and the government. It became a good practice for the implementation of the UN Millennium Development Goals. In particular, as the project contributes to developing global partnerships provided under Target 8 of the MDGs, it served for achieving and localizing Millennium Development Goals in Turkey.
Add a Plus to Life was a 1.5 million dollar youth fund designated for the youth projects written and implemented by young people and for young people. The fund aimed at financing 100 youth projects in total. In spite, the fund was used to call young people to develop new projects, to provide advocacy on project management, to share good practices, to organize follow-up meetings and for the evaluation.
Supported projects were oriented to increase life qualities of young people which was also among the priorities of UNDP as part of national sustainable development targets. Qualified projects, which were on education, sports, environment, culture-arts, were supported by a direct fund between 5 to 15 thousand dollars.
Life Plus Youth Fund supported different projects that promote social responsibility, social interaction, sensitive to environment, sustainable; make young people participative, innovative, independent, and creative; have a social impact and especially increase quality of young people’s life.
At the first phase of the project, youth development projects from Trabzon, Kocaeli, Van, Mardin, Siirt, İstanbul, Mersin, Bursa, Adana and Konya cities were selected among 137 projects and beneficed from the fund. The second, 12 youth projects from Istanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Çankırı, Mersin, Kahramanmaraş, Batman, Şırnak, Hakkari, and Bitlis cities were supported |
