“Local gender policy – perspectives and challenges” – meeting in Ozurgeti

     

Fund "Sukhumi" organized a meeting on the topic "Local Gender Policy - Prospects and Challenges" in the meeting room of the regional administration of Guria.

The meeting was attended by members of Gender Equality Councils of Guria municipalities, government officials, colleagues invited from Imereti, media and NGO representatives.

Participants of the meeting exchanged information and experiences on positive practice of gender mainstreaming in municipalities, assessed challenges in the work of local gender Equality Councils.

"We would like to learn from a positive experience of other Councils, especially the pilot Gender Advisory Councils of Fund „Sukhumi”, the one of which worked for three years in Ozurgeti. We think that information exchange system would be very useful for all, - said attendees.

The information meeting was held within the framework of the project "Learning from Visegrad 4 experience to advocate for equal, inclusive and democratic local governance". During the next stage, a strategy will be developed and gender mainstreaming at the local level will be advocated.

The project is implemented with the support of the Visegrad Fund

Meeting of Council of Advisors of Khoni

    

On February 22, the 19th meeting of the Council of Advisers of Khoni took place in Sakrebulo with facilitation of the fund “Sukhumi”. The meeting discussed the issues included in the action plan of the social inclusion strategy, which continue the tendency of introduction of innovative social services for vulnerable groups in the municipality. To the 13 reviewed projects, comments and suggestions were made - with their consideration a final version of the action plan will be formed.

The meeting also reviewed the recommendations of the current stage of monitoring the social budget made by the Fund “Sukhumi”.

The project is implemented with the support of the Czech organization PIN

Consultation on gender issues in Lanchkhuti

there is a consultative group in the Fund "Sukhumi" on gender issues. The consultant of the group met with the representatives of the Municipality of Lanchkhut Municipality - the person authorized in gender equality and with the members of the Gender Equality Council. The conversation touched upon the structure of the Council and plans for the future, which implied close cooperation with the Fund “Sukhumi”.

The project is implemented with the support of the Visegrad Fund

Monitoring of the law: interviews and focus group

  

In February, two interviews were conducted with the inspector-investigator of the Poti City Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the head of Lanchkhut Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and inspector- investigators in frames of monitoring of the "Georgian Law on the Elimination of Domestic Violence / against Women, Protecting the Victim and Helping them". To receive qualitative information, a focus group was held with the participation of representatives of the society and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. There was also a demand for information from the Ministry of Internal Affairs regarding the statistics of the issuance of detention orders and violations. The purpose of these events is to identify the involvement of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the implementation of the law.

The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot

 für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)

Active work of Gender Consultative Group

 

Members of the Gender Consultative Group established by Fund “Sukhumi” met with a representative of the Mayor’s office of Bagdadi Municipality responsible for gender equality issues, Sophiko Natriashvili. She was consulted on local gender policy issues as well as no activities to be carried out by Gender Equality Council of the Municipality. Participants of the meeting discussed plans for future cooperation between the Council and Fund “Sukhumi”.

The project is implemented with the support of the Visegrad Fund 

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