Measuring and Developing Care Economy in Turkey 1 June 2020

Project Name: Measuring and Developing Care Economy in Turkey

Country: Türkiye

Start Date: 01-06-2019

End Date: 01-06-2020

Client Name: Oxfam Novib

Project Details: 

This project aimed to contribute to the wider understanding of the current state of affairs in relation to the care economy in Turkey (including various types of care such as child, elderly, disabled, sick etc.), providing policy options that can help in building a more sustainable, accessible and available care services, and turning care work into a more viable and sustainable economy that generates good jobs, especially for women.

PAL conducted an in-depth assessment of Turkey's care economy, which involved number of needed groups, institutions, and its economic scale in Turkey. This was achieved through comprehensive literature review, data analysis concerning the mentioned groups, and exhausting the publicly available data with the objective of measuring the current economic size of the care sector as well develop projections and scenarios for the future. The study also involved a presentation and report preparation that contributed to policy options that can help in building a more sustainable, accessible and available care services.

This report has not been published by the client. To access to outline of the report please click here.