The Fund "Sukhumi" has 10 Women Support Centers in Terjola, Vani, Tkibuli, Bagdati, Chokhatauri, Samtredia, Kobuleti, Zugdidi, Senaki, Tsalenjikha municipalities. A two-day workshop was held for the updated staff of mobilizers. All discussed topics were necessary and relevant: selecting target groups, working with the audience, identifying problems, filling in a victim questionnaire and responding to it, conducting advocacy campaign, legal mechanisms for victim support, working with local governments, municipal programs and state services for violence prevention and victim assistance, informing, self-presentation, facilitation and moderation.
“The work of the mobilizer seemed difficult to me, but now I already know how to go step by step. The workshop showed me the sequence of the process”, mentioned one of the mobilizers at the end of the workshop.
Georgian Rural Hall is one of the most successful civil society organizations and our active partner in Lanchkhuti. Within the framework of the sub-grants component, the organization has implemented a small project “E-communicator of accountability and transparency for Lanchkhuti municipality”.
The monitoring time has come: representatives of Imereti Scientists' Union “Spectri” got acquainted with the progress of the project and attended one of the meetings that the Georgian Rural Hall held for local civil society organizations.
The project manager Amiran Gigineishvili presented a version of the web application, which he developed with the programming language ASP.NET C ++ using MS SQL server. The algorithm for sending a letter by a citizen and receiving a response, as well as public information, was discussed. The participants of the meeting independently sent e-mails and worked in other fields in test mode.
Imereti Scientists Union of "Spectri" held another consultation meeting with partner organizations: "Center for Education and Equality" and "Young Teachers Union" in Ozurgeti.
During the meeting, the current issues were discussed, they talked about the measures envisaged in the working plan of the new projects financed by the sub-grant from the side of partner organizations and their monitoring, as well as the local needs research of the citizens.
The work is carried out in the framework of the project “A common forum for CSOs from Guria, Imereti and Racha-Lechkhumi for PAR Roadmap monitoring”.
A round table on: "Results of the implementation of public monitoring of the action plan of public administration reform in Ozurgeti municipality" was held in Ozurgeti.
The meeting was attended by representatives of local government, NGOs, mass media, small businesses, teachers, stakeholders.
The representative of the partner organization of Imereti Scientists’ Union "Spectri" spoke about the importance of civil society inclusion in monitoring the roadmap for public administration reform.
Representatives of Guria partner organizations: "Center for Education and Equality" and "Young Teachers’ Union" familiarized the participants with the results of the third monitoring, conducted by them and noted the positive trends and new challenges identified after the monitoring.
"I received the correct information about the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict."
"I am an IDP from Abkhazia, but I know very little about reasons and duration of conflict. This training gave me the opportunity to learn more. "
“I have heard only about the consequences of conflict. I always wanted to know more about the history of conflict. Thank you for this training and for answering my questions. "
This is a feedback from one part of the training participants. The training was conducted by the conflict expert Keti Vasadze.
“Prehistory of Georgian-Abkhazian conflict, its continuation and consequences”
- the participants of the online training on this topic were members of the Youth Initiative Group of Khoni municipality.
Women and girls needs research in 6 municipalities of Western Georgia - Kutaisi, Tskaltubo, Khoni, Senaki, Zugdidi and Tsalenjikha - was completed.
1000 respondents were interviewed through the questionnaires, 24 in-depth interviews and 24 focus - group meetings were held for qualitative research.
In May, the systematization of the research results will be held, and this will become the basis for the analysis. In frames of the project, it is also envisaged to develop a plan and further work to advocate the needs of local target groups at local and central levels.
The article in the newspaper "New Education" starts like this:
Within the framework of the project "Strengthening the Women's Rights in Western Georgia", the Fund “Sukhumi” has started to establish youth centers in 10 cities of Western Georgia (Kobuleti, Senaki, Tsalenjikha, Zugdidi, Samtredia, Vani, Terjola, Tkibuli, Bagdati). In agreement with local governments and resource centers, the Fund “Sukhumi” cooperates with youth departments, on the basis of which youth empowerment centers are established.
Link: https://bit.ly/3ew5m3x
Projects of 16 experienced and 14 new organizations - new ideas, interesting initiatives!
Specifically:
In 2019, within the framework of the project, the Forum of Civil Society Organizations was established, which joined 16 organizations from 8 municipalities. They participate in many activities. For them, a mini-grants competition was announced for the second time. And all 16 small projects were financed, just like the first time.
This time there is an innovation: in recent months, our project has contributed to the creation of 14 new organizations in Imereti, Guria and Racha-Lechkhumi. Moreover, it was decided to support their first projects.
On April 28, during the ordinary meeting of the competition committee, the results of the evaluation of project applications were discussed and a decision on their financing was made.
Thus, 30 small projects have been financed. Their implementation has already begun in Vani, Khoni, Bagdati, Terjola, Tsageri, Ambrolauri, Lanchkhuti and Ozurgeti municipalities.
The Fund "Sukhumi" held a round table in Zugdidi with participation of the representatives of local referral entities.
During the meeting there was a discussion regarding prevention of violence and protection of violence victims (referring of social cooperation), analysis of the situation in terms of domestic violence and definition of prospects for social cooperation. The emphasis was made on the problem of domestic violence and the prospects of cooperation with local structures.
The project "Strengthening of Women's Rights in Western Georgia" was also presented at the meeting.
According to the participants of the meeting, joint activities will enable to identify problems, increase the quality of their solution and prevention.
