REPUBLIC OF TURKEY- MINISTRY OF FAMILY AND SOCIAL POLICIES Yusuf KESGİN - Assistance Expert of Family and Social Policies CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER FOR EDUCATION IMPLEMENTATIONS ON TURKEY’S INTEGRATED SOCIAL ASSISTANCE SYSTEM 24.10.2017 Athens

Overview of content Turkey’s Integrated Social Assistance System(ISAS) National Conditional Cash Transfer for Education(CCTE) Extension of Conditional Cash Transfer for Education to Syrians and other refugees Processes of CCTE in ISAS Integrations for CCTE Learning outcomes

Turkey’s Integrated Social Assistance System An e-goverment system that electronically facilitates all steps related to the management of social assistance Collect informations from 22 different public institutions and provides 112 web based services in one easily accessible online portal Processed 30 million citizen’s applications for social assistance and completed 340 million assistance transactions totaling US$13 billion

Conditional cash transfer for education National social assistance programme implemented by the Ministry of Family and Social Policies since 2003 Aims to increase the number of children enrolled in and attending school in Turkey

National CCTE statistics Received totaly over 5,5 million national CCTE applications So this means we touch over 5,5 million students

September 2017 payment details National CCTE statistics September 2017 payment details Transferred USD 21 million 1865000 beneficiaries 912000 cardholders

Extension of CCTE to Syrians and other refugees Syrian families under temporary protection or other refugees residing in Turkey can also benefit from this program support for every month that their child attends school regularly Children attending Temporary Education Centers can also benefit from CCTE

CCTE to Syrians and other refugees statistics Currently over 250K CCTE for Syrians and other refugees applications So this means we reach over 250K refugee students

CCTE to Syrians and other refugees statistics

Application process of CCTE Extension of CCTE to Syrians and other refugees Application process of CCTE Applications are getting in local Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundations(SASF) or TRC Service Centers Applicants are required to submit a signed informed consent document to allow institutions to review their social and economic informations Applicants give the DGMM Id cards to the officials at SASF or TRC, Their household file created and CCTE applications saved to ISAS

Evaluation process of CCTE Extension of CCTE to Syrians and other refugees Evaluation process of CCTE Social review Household Community Social assistance decision support system Board of trustees

Payment process of CCTE Extension of CCTE to Syrians and other refugees Payment process of CCTE Before every CCTE payment periods that take two months duration, all central queries and business rules which are required to payment are controlled and executed centrally with batch operations In every CCTE payment period eligible/not eligible files contain applications and aplication related informations are transferred to Turkish Red Crescent(TRC) system automatically After cross check controls in TRC, payments for eligible applications are transferred to applicants TRC card accounts

Turkish Red Crescent(TRC) Integrations with other institutions for CCTE Turkish Red Crescent(TRC) Web service integration for showing the ongoing CCTE application File transfer integration for transferring eligible/not eligible files

Ministry of National Education(MoNE) Integrations with other institutions for CCTE programme Ministry of National Education(MoNE) Web service integration for querying; student informations student continuity tracking informations

Learning outcomes All shareholders of program(MoFSP, TRC, MoNE, UNICEF) deal with some cost issues and contracts such as system performance, web service contract, data transfer protocole contract When an unexpected situation or bug that need to solve as soon as possible occurs, we learn that communication with shareholders is important

Learning outcomes The CCTE programme implemented in ISAS and currently working. But requirements can change, refactoring may be needed or it can be bottleneck for any reason in system so we always have a chance to learn new things Teamwork and coordination makes us more stable

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