Livelihoods

Goal: TPF focuses on strategic interventions to improve the quality of livelihood opportunities currently available and to provide alternative livelihood opportunities to ensure that poor people in rural and urban areas have adequate resources to sustain themselves. TPF supports projects that address the underlying social conditions that systematically deny the opportunities people need to become productive. TPF would like to support:

*  Smaller towns and innovative ideas for creating opportunities, both for self-employment and wage employment among the urban poor through job training and entrepreneurship and small and medium enterprise programs.
*  Micro-credit initiatives that not only provide access to credit to those who would not qualify for regular bank loans but also integrate enterprise and enable women to have more control over their increased incomes.
*  Projects that would provide social and cultural vitality through urban centers, and projects that will address the problems faced by slum dwellers and provide long-term solutions to the problem of increasing urbanization rate.
*  Projects that work to improve the effectiveness and accountability of disaster response, disaster preparedness, mitigation and reconstruction especially in major urban areas such as Istanbul.