Women’s Empowerment Program

The Women’s Health Education Program (WHEP) is designed to promote essential preventive health behaviors that improve women’s and their families’ living conditions, while also raising awareness about the importance of accessing preventive health services.

The program aims to help women:

• Become familiar with their bodies

• Develop knowledge and skills around hygiene and nutrition

• Manage their fertility

• Increase health awareness related to pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period

• Adopt behaviors that protect reproductive health

• Express themselves and resolve communication problems

• Strengthen their communication with others

• Access public services

• Improve their parenting skills by learning about child and adolescent development

• Identify and replace harmful general health behaviors with healthier practices

WHEP is conducted in closed group sessions over the course of 13 weeks, with each session lasting 90 minutes. Each module is delivered using visual education materials tailored to the needs of the target group, particularly considering those with limited or no literacy skills. The program is built around participatory methods that support learning and engagement.

WHEP Modules:

• Sexual/Reproductive Organs and Their Functions

• Hygiene – Nutrition

• Safe Motherhood

• Behaviors That Protect Reproductive Health

• Communication

• Sexuality I – II

• Rights

• Children and Adolescents

• Behaviors That Protect General Health

Women’s Health Seminars provide a space for women to come together and discuss key reproductive health topics within a preventive healthcare approach. These seminars allow participants to reassess and correct common misconceptions, as well as share experiences in an interactive setting. Through these seminars, we aim to encourage participants to adopt preventive healthcare practices and make effective use of health service providers.

Our goals include: ensuring that women have access to accurate information on fundamental women’s health issues; encouraging their active role in adopting preventive health behaviors; enhancing their knowledge of preventive healthcare; increasing demand for health and public services; helping them replace risky health behaviors with healthy practices in daily life; improving their status within the family and society; raising health awareness among families; and ultimately enhancing quality of life.

Seminar Topics:

• Understanding Our Bodies

• Safe Motherhood

• Fertility Regulation

• Hygiene and Nutrition

• Women’s Health Issues

• Sexual Education in Childhood and Adolescence

• Menopause

• Shaping the Future Through a Gender Equality Perspective

• Personal Space and Boundaries

To expand our training and seminar activities and strengthen our efforts, we establish collaborations with local governments, non-governmental organizations, public institutions, and universities from various provinces. In line with this goal, we organize training of trainers programs every year. Between 2015 and 2023, nearly 300 trainers from 74 civil society organizations and women’s advisory units within local governments reached nearly 55,000 women from diverse backgrounds across Türkiye, providing training, seminars, information sessions, and counseling.

If you would like to become a trainer: Please fill out the application form to apply for training.

To empower our trainers in the field and to foster inter-institutional communication, we organize thematic and refresher trainings on various topics related to women’s health.