Istanbul Development Agency continues its efforts as the national coordinator of Closing the Skills Gap Accelerator Programme in order to ensure coordination and collaboration between the executing institutions and organizations, to carry out the program activities and to disseminate the program results.

Within this context; IDA provides funds under the Social Impact Bond Program, which is implemented for the first time in Turkey.

In this context, Istanbul Development Agency provides funds under the Social Impact Bond Program, which is implemented for the first time in Turkey. It is aimed to implement employment-oriented training programs which will bring the qualifications required by the software industry to young people, through service providers that international investors provide pre-financing and consultancy.

Thus, a new program will be realized in which result-based payment method will be implemented in order to increase youth employment and reduce imbalance between the supply-demand in the labor market that requires technological competence.