Child and Parent-Friendly Municipality Governance Guide Project aims to increase the quality of life and welfare of children and parents by developing a road map that would shed light on the services of municipalities. In order to achieve this goal, which will strengthen municipalities structurally in order to be both child and parent-friendly; we create suggestions that will guide them on how to transfer this approach to their practices and measure their own development. Likewise, we aim to evaluate the impact created by implementing the suggestions during the progress of the project.

We have firstly initiated our project with the questionnaire that we developed and implemented for all district municipalities of Istanbul. With this survey, in order to be child and parent-friendly, we asked questions which would enable municipalities to evaluate themselves, their approaches to children and parents in a multifaceted way: from decision­ making to resource management, from the provision of services to the establishment of this understanding in their institutional operations.