Buyukdere Caddesi Stad Han No: 85 Kat:2 Mecidiyekoy
Istanbul/
Turkey
- Youth and education
Founded in 1993, ACEV's mission is to provide equal opportunity in education to all by targeting the groups in society that are most severely impacted by lack of access to educational services.
In order to reach these groups, ACEV develops and implements programs and advocacy campaigns in its two main areas of expertise: early childhood and adult education.
ACEV also addresses cross-cutting issues or works in related sectors such as such as gender equality, functional literacy, access to basic education, and health care.
To date, AÇEV has reached nearly 700,000 individuals (plus 8,500 trainers) through its direct training programs and 8,000,000 viewers through television programs aimed at children, families, and illiterate women.
In total ACEV has reached an estimated 45,000,000 people through publications, research, and mass-media public awareness advocacy activities.
ACEV has centered its work on two main areas of expertise: early childhood and adult education. Guided by the principle of equal education opportunities for all, ACEV implements a broad range of integrated and complementary activities serving the principal goal of individual empowerment and societal development through education and lifelong learning.
In order to achieve these goals ACEV develops and implements education programs which empower the family, provides early childhood education, parenting and literacy/women’s support programs using a variety of models and mediums (ranging from face-to-face training modules to distance education via TV and web-based sources), delivers high quality trainer training and provides effective and systematic in-the-field support and supervision to trainers in order to maintain quality and consistency while scaling-up its programs.
ACEV also leads and participates awareness raising and policy-building activities on the issues of early childhood and adult education. The expertise in community based parent training and early childhood activities that the foundation has developed in Turkey has been recognized by the international community. Thus, ACEV also partners with UNESCO, ECOSOC, Consultative Group, Harvard and Yale University.
In Turkey, the development of interaction and communication among civil society and universities is crucial for sustainability and empowerment of the projects which aim to support the development of peace, education, human rights etc. ACEV, as Turkey-based NGO, will be able to contribute to the development of dialogue and partnerships among the members of ALF network and also support the corporate development and institutionalization of ALF Network of Turkey by using its previous experiences.
ACEV has developed cost-effective early childhood programs that empower the role of parents as “first educators” of their child in supporting social, emotional, cognitive and physical development. ACEV programs are also included important learning outcomes related to the current social problems such as elimination of domestic violence, gender inequality, and child protection. Thus, ACEV intends to use the network of ALF to expand its scientifically grounded early childhood programs to support the development of peaceful societies. While ACEV’s programs have been implemented on a small scale in several other countries, the ALF network will enable the implementation of an international strategy through establishing new country partnerships.