In the program of TV “Egrisi” – Senaki, members of Senaki GAC talked about gender policy and evaluated a two – year work of the GAC.
It was said that the first tangible result was creation of youth and gender department in the local government, for which small budget was allocated. Number of recommendations were named, which were envisaged by the local government, especially regarding the youth.
The GAC members mentioned that from the government side, an expression of confidence were the projects that were financed and successfully implemented. They also noted cooperation with the media, ensuring the dissemination of information about the project and its popularization.
The story says that the GAC as intermediary body between the community and local authorities, feels high sense of responsibility. A great desire of its members is to reflect gender needs, which have emerged as a result of a recent research in the budget of the next year.
 
The project is implemented with the support
 of the UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality

 

TV program, past in the air of TV "Guria" covers various aspects of Ozurgeti Gender Advisory Council, a new perspective of the work with youth; identification of citizens needs and their advocacy and lobbying events; the most important thing - one of the visual results of the GAC: GAC member Nia Mekvabishvili was appointed as an assistant of the attorney (head of municipality administration) on gender issues. In future It will strengthen the capabilities of the GAC.

                                                                                                                                

The project is implemented with the support

 of the UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality

The story in TV Company “Adjara” concerns the problem of domestic violence and the ways of solution. The programs shares opinions of law protectors and members of Batumi GAC.
As the story tells, Batumi GAC works for year and a half and pays great attention to the problem of domestic violence.
How alarming is the statistic, how the council tries to show actuality of the problem through cooperation with state structures and public sector, relevant reaction, victim protection – these are the issues, which are main in discussion with council members, City Hall representatives and gender advisors of Sakrebulo.

 

The project is implemented with the support  of the U.S. Department of State

 

  

In May the newspaper “Guria News” published an article about the company of recycling the lead. Newspapers "Guriis Moambe", "Guria News", "Alioni" made information about the discharge of inert materials from the river Bzhuzhi. These problems cause a danger for the population. It was recorded in the report of a lawyer of Ozurgeti Gender Advisory Council (GAC), it was noted at the meeting of GAC.

The work carried out in Ozurgeti is actively supported by the journalists and they are involved in solving urgent problems. It was discussed at the traditional informational meeting with journalists, which was held in Gender media center.

The project is implemented with the support
 of the UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality

The program tells about the project of Senaki Gender Advisory Council (GAC) "Prevention of domestic violence in Senaki municipality", which is funded by the Fund "Sukhumi" and the local government. The project is implemented in the villages of Senaki municipality and it includes members of the GAC. According to them, workshops conducted with different groups of society are very important for the promotion of gender education and reduction of domestic violence.

Respondents of the program touched a research conducted by the Gender Advisory Council of Senaki, talked about his goals, obtained results, there were identified issues that were mentioned as vital by the women, youth, persons with disabilities and other civic groups. They expressed the hope that the recommendations received after the analysis of the study will be taken into account in the budget of self-government of Senaki and the basis for this is  the experience of previous years.

The project is implemented with the support
 of the UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality
From January implementation of the new project: “strengthening of women’s rights in Western Georgia” began.
In frames of the project monthly electronic informational bulletin is issued, which summarizes activities during a month, number of participants and achieved results.
According the third issue of the bulletin, in March 82 activities were held in January, with participation of 995 people.
Definite changes were achieved and lives of some women were changed.
 
 
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
 für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)

 

Today, in the program "The main theme of portal "Guriis Moambe" hosted to chairman of Ozurgeti Gender Advisory Council (GAC) Lela Natsvaladze and deputy Lali Sichinava. They evaluated the results of three years of work.

Guests of the program stressed the importance of the projects, which in recent years have caused increasing awareness of society on gender issues and the growing interest.

Leaders of GAC named their visit card - a project "Cancer is not a death sentence."

There was a talk about the close cooperation between the regions and the role of local authorities in the implementation of various projects. As Lela Natsvaladze noted, on the account of the GAC there are 9 implemented projects. In the future, work will continue in that direction, what needs will be identified in cooperation with the community.

The project is implemented with the support
 of the UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality

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The story of TV Company “Rioni” shows the importance of gender approach in pre-school period.
This is a story about the only men – head of kindergarten – Zaal Khonelidze an dit is an exception in our reality.
The personnel mention that there was a skeptic approach towards the new head, but soon he gained love and respect from side of the pupils.
“Good manager, good teacher, educated head” – this is his characteristics from the side of colleagues and parents (Zaal is a member of the club “who, when, where”).
“Pleasant, but very responsible”, this is how he characterizes Kutaisi, kindergarten No1.
 
The project is implemented with the support
 of the UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality
Batumi Gender Advisory Council organized round table in March. One of the main issues was early marriage and its results.
“Gender News” of the Radio “Freedom” is continuation of this topic. Georgia takes the second place after Moldova regarding early marriage. Experts, psychologists, rights protectors invited by the GAC speak that it is not a problem of concrete family. The decision is made that from April1 1, it is punishable to marry underage person.  

The project is implemented with the support of the U.S. Department of State

The second issue of the monthly electronic informational bulletin was published in frames of the project “strengthening of women’s rights in Western Georgia”. April activities were assumed.
As it was mentioned in the bulletin, 87 activities were held with participation of 1081 people.
The bulletin describes work and concrete results of all 6 WSCs (Kutaisi, Khoni, Tskaltubo, Senaki, Poti, Khurcha).
 
 
 
 
The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot
 für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)

 

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