Fund “Sukhumi” organized a round table in Khurcha (Zugdidi municipality) on the topic: “Early prevention of conflicts from a gender perspective”. The meeting was attended by the members of the Women Initiative Groups of the Fund "Sukhumi” in Kutaisi, Tskaltubo and Khurcha, representatives of local government, majoritarian candidates, journalists, civil activists of Kakhati, Orsantia, Didi Nedzi, Koki.

Invited experts talked about municipal and social programs. The participants listened to the information on the work of the Women Initiative Groups of Kutaisi, Tskaltubo, and Khurcha on the early prevention of conflicts: how problems are identified, how the advocacy is carried out, what are the results.

During the discussion, topical problems were identified, which  create conflict situations in individual communities.

According to the participants, such meetings contribute to informing the population, increase the involvement of citizens in the advocacy process and reduce the risk of conflicts in society.

Members of Tskaltubo Women Initiative Group began the next meeting with an assessment of the activities carried out in frames of the campaign against gender based violence. It was noted that, in comparison with the previous years, public awareness about violence against women has increased. Responsibility of local self-government has increased, which is expressed by their active involvement in the campaign.

In the next part of the meeting, the moderator said what problems were shown during meetings with the public. The group members discussed how these problems contain risk in terms of conflict development.

Members of Kutaisi Women Initiative Group summed up the 6-month work. We discussed how effective is conflict prevention from a gender perspective, which is the meaning of meeting the women in different communities, identifying and advocating their problems.

The opening of the stadium for children in the auto factory settlement has already fallen into the list of solved and completed problems. This problem created conflict situations in the settlement.

In parallel, the group is working on identifying new issues. Starting from the next year, it is planned to expand cooperation with local government.

A meeting of the Women's Initiative Group members and women activists in the village of Khurcha (Zugdidi municipality) was held in frames of a 16-day campaign against violence. Participants spoke about the scales of the problem of violence.

- There are frequent facts of domestic violence in the village. Early response to such conflicts is very important. Early prevention will reduce the scale of violence, was mentioned during the meetings.

The participants received information about the training, which was held in Istanbul and discussed the strategy, of how to continue to work on in order to identify gender accents in all aspects.