"Turkish expert who has made his university
diploma in education sector with more than 8 years of experience in project
management and consulting business. He has also a strong background in
school level education and successful results in international competitions.
He is specialist in training and information management systems development
utilizing the latest technologies. He is an experienced training designer,
communicator and marketer in developing public awareness and promotional
campaigns for organizations with up to date knowledge of the latest learning
media and tools. He is a developer of interactive game-based learning
events, rich training materials and publications. He is an experienced
speaker in professional development seminars, conferences and events. He has
worked for National Employment Agency in a World Bank Social Support Project
and for Ministry for Education in EU funded reform project in Turkey."
"Our
selected Networking, Coordination and Communication Expert, Mr. Melih
Yalçιneli, is a graduated teacher who worked in projects involving many
different aspects of facilitating networks and communication among large
groups of stakeholders over the last eight years. During the last five years
Mr. Yalçιneli worked mainly on projects funded by international donors and
organized a large number of networking events, dissemination events and
forums with participants from government, administration and civil society.
As the Regional Manager for Ankara in a EU-funded project, he facilitated
the regular dialogue between public and social sector stakeholders of the
projects strengthening a joint ownership and commitment for the project.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Yalçιneli gained first-hand experience in the
design of web-sites and complex web-portals from giving technical and
contents-related inputs. Having worked in IT- and Web-related assignments
for several years, Mr. Yalçιneli acquired hands-on knowledge of IT tools for
web-design, web content management, communication and MIS tools. Moreover,
Mr. Yalçιneli is conversant in organising Media and PR contacts and in
editing PR materials and very familiar with the EC Visibility Guidelines
based on his recent EC-project experience. Mr. Yalçιneli has a high personal
commitment and large personal network among Civil Society stakeholders and
personally initiated the “Science Magic” Community Project which was awarded
a special recognition by the World Bank. Mr. Yalçιneli is fluent in English
and Turkish and we were more than happy to personally discuss his views on
Civil Society Development and Governance in Turkey with him and experience
his highly convincing and friendly manner of communication.
Mr. Yalçιneli’s main
responsibilities and tasks as networking, coordination and communication
expert will be:
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Execution of all activities
related to networking, coordination and communication of the project;
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Invitation of the possible
stakeholders of the project to the necessary meetings, seminars, Focus Group
Meetings, conferences, training activities, possible organisation of study
visits and other similar events;
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Design and update the web-site
of the project and web-forum and project brochure, best practice publication
and other project publications;
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Establish a specific NGO
directory with NGOs interested in NGO-Public Sector Cooperation.