Members of Senaki IDP Women Initiative Group actively participate in the training cycle to raise their competence.
During the feedback at the planned June meeting, the members of the group assessed how useful is the training for them and how they use the acquired knowledge in practice.
According to the participants, they had the opportunity to learn important things regarding various topical issues: peacebuilding, gender-based violence, forms of civic engagement, networks, coalitions... By participating in the trainings, they acquired new skills and will work actively so that the problems of IDPs appear into the municipal programs and contribute to the implementation of the National Action Plan of UN Resolution 1325 at the local level.
The project is implemented with the support
of the UN Women organization
During the online information meeting with members of Khoni IDP Women Initiative Group, the topics of the trainings planned for June and the schedule for their implementation were discussed.
During the meeting, the participants saw a video clip prepared within the framework of the project, which included the leaders of the Initiative Groups. It was mentioned that this is a motivation for women activists, as it provides an opportunity to present their leadership skills.
The project is implemented with the support
of the UN Women organization
An information meeting was held online with members of the IDP Women Initiative Group.
The meeting was attended by the PR of the project, who showed the group members her video, in which the leaders of the Initiative Groups say why they were involved in the project and what their expectations are.
The members of the group also received information about the trainings planned for June – a cycle of trainings is ongoing in five target municipalities of the Women Fund “Sukhumi” with the participation of 50 active women.
The project is implemented with the support
of the UN Women organization
“Supra” in Georgian is not only lunch. This is a ritual of a joint feast, an exchange of feelings. Therefore, we decided to invite “our Ukrainian women” - this is how we call women from Ukraine. They came to our office with pleasure: Irina, Natalia, Marina...
Georgian dishes were cooked by us - chakhokhbili and pkhali, mchadi and khachapuri, satsivi, chanakhi, kubdari... We printed the recipes for them.
We talked about the Georgian traditions of the feast, in parallel - about our experiences. They talked about their own, and we talked about our pain, which was revived by the war in Ukraine...
"Supra" has become a kind of psycho-rehabilitation. The guests left satisfied, forgetting for a while the pain. They know that the Women Fund “Sukhumi” is their assistant and tries to solve their daily problems...
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
für die Welt - Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (Germany)
We gave a new format to the meetings with the members of the Women Initiative Group ... In the first part of the meetings, the participants listened to the results of a research prepared by Tbilisi Representative Office on women's empowerment (see the full version of the research here http://fsokhumi.ge/.../inf.../ item / 11591-2021-09-27-05-57-02).They also got acquainted with the work of the website of the Digital Resource Center for Violence Victim Services (https://sosfsokhumi.ge/). In the second part, the members of the initiative group met successful women who shared their history, experience or knowledge with the participants. Maia Kardava, Lamzira Malichava, Matsatso Khakhubia, Maka Chelidze, Natia Jimsheleishvili, Shorena Shonia, Sophio Kukhalashvili - this is a list of women who have passed a long and difficult way to success and today want to help others. Familiarization with the portraits of women active in the economics, business, and public activities aroused positive emotions in the participants and created a positive mood, which creates a basis for increasing their motivation.
The project is implemented with the support of the USAID
The most interesting stage of small grants started ... The members of the project commission voiced their decisions and the members of the groups also started the work process. The youth held meetings in the target municipalities, drew up a project work plan, identified activities and the executors.
The project is implemented with the support of the USAID
- No matter how much time passes, talking about the conflict will always be painful for an internally displaced person, but it is necessary to talk.
- Unfortunately, the borders of Georgia are also moved today, people are kidnapped from their territories.
- It's terrible when you look at the cemeteries of your loved ones from afar.
- We do not want to return Abkhazia by war.
- Many people do not know about the format of Geneva negotiations.
- All social benefits have increased, and the benefits for IDPs are on the same indicator.
- How much time has passed, and the IDPs are still not provided with accommodation.
These are the words of the participants of the two-day training. It is clear what was discussed and what issues were emphasized...
The training was attended by project assistants and 50 members of IDP Women Initiative Groups from five municipalities (Kutaisi, Khoni, Tskaltubo, Zugdidi, Senaki).
The project is implemented with the support
of the UN Women organization
"Citizens' participation in the implementation of local self-governance" - training with members of Khoni Women Initiative Group.
The training was held on the background of active discussion.
Legal Acts, principles of self-government financing according to the European Charter, self-governmental unit and its powers.
Lawyer Tamuna Pachulia talked about this and many other issues.
The project is implemented with the support of the USAID
Women Fund “Sukhumi” Tbilisi office representative - Ekaterine Gamakharia has participated in first in-person working meeting organized by the WAVE network in Vienna (May 12th, 2022) to kick off the new OSCE-funded project on supporting women survivors of violence in conflict and post-conflict areas. The aim of the project is to develop a toolkit to capture the promising practices of women’s NGOs in preventing and responding to gender-based violence during and after the war. The project participants have exchanged thoughts about importance of the toolkit, devised its goal and the potential target audience, the structure and the practices to be incorporated in the final document.
The WAVE members involved in the project are the Sexual Assault Crisis Center (Yerevan, Armenia), Women Fund Sukhumi (Kutaisi, Georgia), Foundation United Women Banja Luka (Banja Luka, Bosnia & Herzegovina), and Centre “Women’s Perspectives” (Lviv, Ukraine). More information about the project, available at the following link: https://wave-network.org/new-project-supporting-women-survivors-of-violence-in-conflict-and-post-conflict-areas/
Ekaterine attended the last session of the WAVE Advisory Board Members meeting (May 11th), where she has possibility to share her ideas on how to make the projects implemented by the WAVE and extensive expertise accumulated in the network member organizations more accessible and beneficial for the women’s organizations.
