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Core KAGİDER Operations SROI Report

About KAGİDER

The Women Entrepreneurs Association of Türkiye (KAGİDER) is a non-governmental organization founded with the mission of empowering women through entrepreneurship. KAGİDER supports not only women’s economic empowerment but also their political and social participation, positioning entrepreneurship as a tool for transforming women’s disadvantaged status in society and contributing to gender equality.

Since its establishment, KAGİDER has collaborated with a wide range of stakeholders— including public institutions, private sector actors, and civil society organizations—on local, national, and international projects aligned with this mission. With a growing network KAGİDER provides women entrepreneurs with mentoring, training, and guidance while also engaging in active advocacy for gender equality and women’s economic inclusion.

KAGİDER’s key areas of activity include:

• Supporting the participation of women in the workforce and increasing the number of women entrepreneurs,
• Providing training and mentoring programs to encourage women to enter the workforce and entrepreneurship,
• Scaling the reach of KAGİDER’s impact nationwide,
• Supporting personal and professional growth of KAGİDER members,
• Encouraging young women to pursue education and join the labor force,
• Enhancing KAGİDER’s visibility and reputation,
• Advocating for supportive legal frameworks and financial access for women entrepreneurs,
• Creating content and advocacy outputs to establish KAGİDER as a reference point in women’s economic empowerment, both nationally and internationally.

SROI process and results

This Social Return on Investment (SROI) study was designed to assess the impact created by KAGİDER through activities implemented or co-led by the organization between 2020 and 2025. At the outset, the key focus areas that represent what KAGİDER aims to achieve through its activities were identified. The purpose of the study is to measure the social value created for stakeholders involved in KAGİDER’s core activities within these focus areas. The selected focus areas were carefully defined to ensure they comprehensively represent KAGİDER’s core operations. Rather than analyzing any single project directly, the study focused on the overall impact of KAGİDER’s main activities, which were grouped under three overarching goals.

To achieve this, the following steps were taken:

1. Through pre-analysis conducted by a team comprising KAGİDER professionals, a social researcher, and a sustainability expert, it was observed that KAGİDER focus areas could be defined under 3 goals. The decision to focus on Core KAGIDER Operations was intentional and based on the organization’s strategic priorities rather than data limitations. These activities capture the essence of how KAGIDER creates and sustains social value through its longterm, scalable, and mission-aligned work that strengthens women’s participation in the economy.
2. Activities carried out in its focus areas were selected and classified as Core KAGİDER Operations.
3. By defining the core activities carried out between 2020-2025 under these three focus areas and identifying all relevant stakeholder groups and their numbers, the scope of the analysis was determined. These activities and stakeholder groups best represent KAGİDER’s strategic and recurring impact areas

Core KAGİDER Operations defined under three focus areas:

• Knowledge and Skills Development (Including Courage and Recognition):
• Networking Opportunities
• Gender Equality Awareness Raising

The SROI ratio defined for Core KAGİDER Operations implemented between 2020-2025 was analyzed to be 1: 4.80 according to the evaluation of changes measured in stakeholders.

In other words, each 1 TL investment spent by KAGİDER delivered 4.80 TL of social value for stakeholders