Abstract:

Social Support Program (SODES), launched in 2008, is a social development program that aims to respond to the needs posed by the changing social structure and the problems such as migration, poverty and unemployment in the disadvantaged regions in order to strengthen human capital and to support social integration process in these regions. In this context, the population involved by SODES are children, youth, women, the unemployed, the poor, the expatriated people and the individuals and groups living in shanty settlements of the cities, especially those who have difficulties in accessing the social opportunities. Hakkari is a province which is within SODES program and ranks 80th among 81 provinces in the development ranking of Turkey. In this study, socio-economic impacts of SODES projects to the province of Hakkari are investigated.

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