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economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion”. The operation will
particularly focus on the fourth priority axis of the HRD OP whose objective is “to promote an
inclusive labour market with opportunities for disadvantaged people, with a view to their
sustainable integration into the labour force and combat all forms of discrimination in the labour
market”. More specifically, the operation will serve to the achievement of the objectives defined
under Measure 4.2 priority axis of the HRD OP that aims at better functioning and coordination
among the institutions and mechanisms in the field of labour market and social protection
particularly in order to facilitate the integration of disadvantaged persons into the labour market.
This operation will increase İŞKUR’s capacity to provide services to the disadvantaged persons
especially through a model which is based on personalized public employment service approach.
In addition, as will be discussed below, various public institutions provide disadvantaged persons
with social services, social assistances and other related services. However, as these services are
provided by different institutions that have different aims, it is not always possible to achieve a
clear impact on social inclusion. To put it more openly, persons are supported by social
assistances, social services and public employment services by means of a segregated system of
support. That support may be for a limited period of time, for a defined amount of money or
participating in active labour market measures. As a result, although those who can access to
such services receive a certain help to be able to continue their lives, it is often not possible to
break the circle of poverty unless a sustainable employment is achieved. Briefly, the operation
will serve to the achievement of objectives defined under Measure 4.2 of the HRD OP on the one
hand by creating a better functioning İŞKUR in providing services to the disadvantaged persons
and on the other hand by improving the coordination between İŞKUR and other social service
providers in the field.
By doing this, the Operation stands as the first step to implement the active inclusion approach of
the EU, which foresees labour market inclusion as the most effective strategy for ensuring social
inclusion. For the first time in Turkey, services provided by various institutions will be planned
in a comprehensive way to help disadvantaged persons to be integrated into the labour market by
providing them opportunities for work. Putting employment at the centre of combating poverty
and social exclusion derives from cross-country evidence that proves a negative correlation
between employment and poverty, i.e., being employed reduces the likelihood of being poor.
The operation will be compatible with the other operations carried out by İŞKUR. The outputs
such as individual action plans and model offices in the Improving the Quality of Public
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