The conference Hall of Senaki Sakrebulo there was held a training for members of the Club of Women-Voters. This is the first training in the new project of the fund "Sukhumi" - "The active involvement of women in the political life of Georgia through democratization of electoral processes." The project aims to promote the development of the activity of women and enhance their role in the electoral process.

Seventeen participants of the training got acquainted with such topics as the election code of Georgia, the political system of the country, the issue of gender in supporting women candidates. Participants of the training had an opportunity to get answers to interesting questions. They are ready to join the work of the Club and to contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the project.

For the Club of Voter Women, which was formed in Tskaltubo, there was held a training on: “Elections – as the basis for democracy, political system and role of women in this process”.

Elections are the actual issue and the participants received full information from the trainers.

Training was held on the background of active discussion. Participants noted that if the women are at the level of decision making, topical issues will be to the forefront. For this, women should contribute to the manifestation of active women, who live in their communities.

The project is implemented with the support  of the U.S. Embassy in Georgia 

October 22-25 representatives of the Fund "Sukhumi" were invited to the training on advocacy. The training was organized by the international organization Kvinna till Kvinna in Yerevan. At the meeting, partner organizations shared their experience in advocacy at the local, national and regional levels.

The project is implemented with the support of Kvinna till Kvinna,

 women’s Foundation (Sweden)

For the WSC mobilizers of Kutaisi there was held  training for that they could independently implement small projects, funded by the fund “Sukhumi”.

In the first parti of training there was discussed a work with financial documentations. Mobilizers filled in different financial forms.

The second part was devoted to organizational work – defining action plan, collaboration with local government and achievement of their support for effectiveness of the project.

Mobilizers of WSCs gathered in the fund “Sukhumi” for two-day training. On February 62-27 they worked on the issues of writing and design the project.

First day of the training was devoted to the principles of project writing – name of the project, describing the aims, problems, defining risks, list of activities.

The second day was practical work – mobilizers elaborated small projects for all 6 Women Support Centers (Kutaisi, Tskaltubo, Khoni, Senaki, Poti, Khurcha).

On September 23 in Batumi there was held a training for the members of Batumi Club of Voter Women. The topic of the training was interesting for the participants based on the fact that the issue of gender and women activity it is important for them. There was  expressed an interest towards the issues related to the elections, as the participants are involved in this process. The meeting stressed the need to support women candidates.

The project is implemented with the support  of the U.S. Embassy in Georgia 

The cycle of trainings in frames of the project: "Cooperation with local government – prevention of domestic violence and protection of victims" is continued (funded by Zugdidi Municipality Gamgeoba and co-financed by the fund "Sukhumi"). It was attended by representatives of the administration of the municipality units from Zugdidi: - Oktomberi, Davitiani, Didinedzi, Kakhati, Kakhati – Didi nedzi, Ergeta, Tsvane, Ingiri, Oireme – also representatives of local self-government.

The participants familiarized with the issues of gender and problems of domestic violence and decided to be more actively involved in the process of violence prevention.