General Information

IKAM is an NGO with a staff of 19. Since it has been established in December, 2006, the budgetary resources are not available. IKAM, subsidized by the Municipality of Istanbul, also receives grants from funding foundations, NGOs and local authorities on project basis. IKAM pursues activities such as field researches, establishing a database on women’s issues, training programs, fact-finding conferences, awareness raising campaigns, projects and monitoring the implementations in order to promote gender mainstreaming, to produce gender policies and to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women. Our partners varies according to the projects, however, our main partners are local authorities, universities, research institutions, academicians and women’s organizations.