Memorandum of cooperation between the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia and the Fund "Sukhumi" was signed on May 5.

The Memorandum defines conditions under which the parties will organize joint activities for the improvement of socio-economic status of women, full integration of IDPs in the local community, as well as support of democratic values ​​and achievement of gender equity.

By signing the Memorandum, the parties have identified the main directions of joint activities and their responsibilities.

Gender advisory council is created in Tskaltubo municipality. It joins the people, who actively cooperate with the fund “Sukhumi”, participate in different trainings and meetings.

In Sakrebulo there was held the first meeting of the council. Chairperson of the council Georgi Dolidze spoke about the action plans for 2016-2018 for the activities in protection of women from violence.

Chairperson of Sakrebulo – Paata Akhaladze paid attention to the problems, existing in gender equality and mentioned that it is necessary to plan concrete actions in this direction. 

Center of pre-school education conducted a meeting initiated by Ozurgeti GAC and Club of Voter Women on: “Protect Security of Children”.

The meeting was also participated by the representatives of local self-government, medical sphere, journalists.

They spoke about different aspects of violence regarding children, about identification of children according different needs. Meeting is the step forward on the way of establishing inclusive education.

There were raised important issues and were drafter the ways of their solution.

Under the support of relevant services of the City Hall on the initiative of Gender Advisory Counciltehre will be implemented different projects and activities for combating violence against children.

Ordinary meeting of Kutaisi GAC presented the participants information about the research of local gender needs. There were defined target groups of the research, functions and duties were allocated. After analyzing results of the focus-groups, in-depth interviews and inquiry, the GAC will elaborate recommendations and submit them to the local government for envisaging in the budget of next year.

In the next part of the meeting participants evaluated the conference, held in frames of the GAC project and spoke about activities, which are necessary to be held at the second phase of the project.

At the end of the meeting, representative of the city hall – Paata Kldiashvili presented the participants “Kutaisi Development Strategy”. Members of the GAC decided to be more actively involved in discussion of the document and establish gender components in separate activities.