Yavaş Yaşamı Destekleme Derneği - ALDA

Yavaş Yaşamı Destekleme Derneği
Izmir, Turkey
www.yavasyasa.com

Social media accounts: @yavasyasa
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Yavaş Yaşamı Destekleme Derneği (Association for Supporting Slow Living) advocates a way of life with traditions, history, nature, and local production that does not harm human beings and other living things. The association from Izmir believes it is needed to reverse the outcomes of speed and consumption and works to preserve and develop natural, cultural, and historical environment; increase the quality of culture, art, and tourism; support the preservation of local historical textures; preserve structures and works of art with a democratic understanding, while supporting disadvantaged groups and promoting human rights.

The association supports active citizenship and mainstreams the idea of slow living by implementing awareness campaigns about overconsumption, organizing projects, and public availability sessions that bring together migrants and local inhabitants.

European Association for Local Democracy (ALDA)
Strasbourg, France
www.alda-europe.eu

Social media accounts: @aldaeurope
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European Association for Local Democracy (ALDA) is a European non-profit association, created by initiative of the Council of Europe, and dedicated to the promotion of good governance at the local level. By using a multi-stakeholder approach, it fosters the cooperation between local authorities and CSOs in order to find efficient solutions to local problems. Its project-based actions cover diverse issues, from active citizenship and promotion of European values to sustainable development, gender issues, youth and migration.

Since the 1990s ALDA coordinates a network of Local Democracy Agencies based in the Balkans, Eastern Partnership countries and North Africa, which are locally registered independent organizations working on the field to promote local democracy with the same approach of ALDA.