- Activities in Promotion of United Nations Global Compact

Our Confederation has carried out, together with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the promotion in Turkey of the Global Compact launched by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
Inline with this, an agreement was signed between our Confederation and UNDP on 27 January 2003. However, our promotional activities had started in October 2002.

The agreement aims at promoting the Global Compact at certain selected priority provinces through training seminars, targeted conferences, sharing of experiences and documents as well as implementing the 9 fundamental principles relating to human rights, labour standards and environment in the private sector enterprises in Turkey.

Many Turkish companies have signed the Global Compact the promotion of which has recently started. It is estimated the number of signatures will increase rapidly as the instrument is based on voluntarism.

Our Confederation is of the opinion that the Global Compact affects the companies which adopt the 9 fundamental principles and reflect them to their practices, through strengthening their images in the international markets, helping integrate with world economy, and adding new dimensions to their social, economic and commercial relations.

In the above mentioned period, TİSK organized 4 international seminars in various provinces of Turkey.

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- TİSK- Ministry of Environment and Forestry Cooperation Protocol

In line with the cooperation protocol signed between our Confederation and the Ministry of Environment in 7 May 1998, training activities are carried out nationally in order to increase awareness of enterprises with regard to environment and to inform enterprises on environment legislation and international standards.
According to the Cooperation Protocol, environmental training seminars are organized every year in provinces and the proceedings are published in book format.


Aside from these activities, in the provinces where training activities are carried out, commissions are set up to within Provincial Directorates of Environment to identify companies that set examples in terms of development of environment and prevention of pollution and this companies are granted “Certificate of Environment” awards.
The above mentioned training activities are carried out within the framework of the Protocol.

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- Cooperation Protocol on Vocational Guidance and Counselling Services

"Vocational Guidance and Counselling Services Cooperation Protocol” was signed on 26 October 2004 between the Ministry of National Education (MoNE), Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MoLSS), State Planning Organization (SPO), Higher Education Board (YÖK), Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT), TOBB, TESK, TÜRK-İŞ, KOSGEB, National Productivity Centre and TİSK.

This protocol supersedes the “Vocational Guidance and Counselling Services Cooperation Protocol” signed between the MoNE and the MoLSS on 17.09.1992.
The protocol which was updated in line with life long learning understanding and expanded with multi stakeholder participation, aims at the following:

• To systematize in integrity the vocational counselling services in education, employment and labour market;
• To ensure interagency cooperation and collaboration to achieve the standards in the field in the EU accession process;
• To restructure life long vocational counselling services in line with life long learning principles to include the social partners.
• To increase efficiency in education and employment.

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