Active Citizen – Accountable Government” and Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Centre – are the local partners of the project in Tsageri municipality.

The fund of women entrepreneurs conducted a meeting with representatives of these organizations. The work that will be carried out to assess the needs of the population (questionnaires, in-depth interviews, focus groups) was considered.

The organizations started working on small projects under the sub-grants component in May. The meeting also agreed a plan-schedule for the implementation of small projects, according to which monitoring will be carried out.

The project “A common forum for CSOs from Guria, Imereti and Racha-Lechkhumi for PAR Roadmap monitoring” is implemented by the Fund “Sukhumi” in partnership with Imereti Scientists” Union “Spectri” and the Fund of Women Entrepreneurs.

local partners in  Ambrolauri municipality are Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti Self-Government Resource Center and Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti “Regional Hub – Abkhazinterkont”. The Fund for Women Entrepreneurs met with these organizations and discussed the work to be done.

Organizations should conduct questionnaires, in-depth interviews, focus groups - based on the received materials, the needs of the population will be evaluated. The working meeting also discussed the plan-schedule for the implementation of small projects that were recently financed.

The project “A common forum for CSOs from Guria, Imereti and Racha-Lechkhumi for PAR Roadmap monitoring” is implemented by the Fund “Sukhumi” in partnership with Imereti Scientists” Union “Spectri” and the Fund of Women Entrepreneurs.

Georgian Rural Hall is one of the most successful civil society organizations and our active partner in Lanchkhuti. Within the framework of the sub-grants component, the organization has implemented a small project “E-communicator of accountability and transparency for Lanchkhuti municipality”.

The monitoring time has come: representatives of Imereti Scientists' Union “Spectri” got acquainted with the progress of the project and attended one of the meetings that the Georgian Rural Hall held for local civil society organizations.

The project manager Amiran Gigineishvili presented a version of the web application, which he developed with the programming language ASP.NET C ++ using MS SQL server. The algorithm for sending a letter by a citizen and receiving a response, as well as public information, was discussed. The participants of the meeting independently sent e-mails and worked in other fields in test mode.

A round table on: "Results of the implementation of public monitoring of the action plan of public administration reform in Ozurgeti municipality" was held in Ozurgeti.

The meeting was attended by representatives of local government, NGOs, mass media, small businesses, teachers, stakeholders.

The representative of the partner organization of Imereti Scientists’ Union "Spectri" spoke about the importance of civil society inclusion in monitoring the roadmap for public administration reform.

Representatives of Guria partner organizations: "Center for Education and Equality" and "Young Teachers’ Union" familiarized the participants with the results of the third monitoring, conducted by them and noted the positive trends and new challenges identified after the monitoring.

Imereti Scientists Union of "Spectri" held another consultation meeting with partner organizations: "Center for Education and Equality" and "Young Teachers Union" in Ozurgeti.

During the meeting, the current issues were discussed, they talked about the measures envisaged in the working plan of the new projects financed by the sub-grant from the side of partner organizations and their monitoring, as well as the local needs research of the citizens.

The work is carried out in the framework of the project “A common forum for CSOs from Guria, Imereti and Racha-Lechkhumi for PAR Roadmap monitoring”.

Projects of 16 experienced and 14 new organizations - new ideas, interesting initiatives!

Specifically:

In 2019, within the framework of the project, the Forum of Civil Society Organizations was established, which joined 16 organizations from 8 municipalities. They participate in many activities. For them, a mini-grants competition was announced for the second time. And all 16 small projects were financed, just like the first time.

This time there is an innovation: in recent months, our project has contributed to the creation of 14 new organizations in Imereti, Guria and Racha-Lechkhumi. Moreover, it was decided to support their first projects.

On April 28, during the ordinary meeting of the competition committee, the results of the evaluation of project applications were discussed and a decision on their financing was made.

Thus, 30 small projects have been financed. Their implementation has already begun in Vani, Khoni, Bagdati, Terjola, Tsageri, Ambrolauri, Lanchkhuti and Ozurgeti municipalities.

"New visions in the process of conducting public administration reform to introduce the needs of citizens" - a round table was held on this topic in Tsageri City Council. The organizers of the meeting were the Civil Society Organizations “Active Citizen - Accountable Government”, “Tsageri Center for Women's Rights and Equality” and the Fund of Women Entrepreneurs.

The facilitator and the speakers of the meeting spoke about the results of the project “A common forum for CSOs from Guria, Imereti and Racha-Lechkhumi for PAR Roadmap monitoring”, about the “working groups” created within the project and the activities. The presentation of the report on citizens’ needs evaluation was held, and at the end the emphasis was made on the vision of the municipality to solve the problems identified in the research. The meeting was attended by representatives of the City Hall and City Council of Tsageri, mass media, NGOs and different spheres of society.

Representatives of local self-government positively assessed the project and underlined the need for its implementation.

City Council of Bagdati municipality approved the code of ethics and rules of behavior for public officials.

The document was drafted by the chairman of the legal and procedural committee, who is a member of the working group, established in frames of the project. Before the presentation at City Council meeting, the document passed all the procedures, it was posted on the website of the municipality and everyone had the opportunity to familiarize with it. As a result of lobbying from the side of working group members, the document was approved.

On the one hand, the code defines a common standard of ethics and behavior for public officials based on general principles (fairness, responsibility, professionalism, efficiency, objectivity, political neutrality, informing the population about the powers they have in communication with public officials) and, on the other hand, together with protecting the interests of public officials, the decree serves to raise trust towards local government and public service.

Khoni working group raised important issues at the round table. The meeting was attended by representatives of local government, schools, mass media, as well as social workers and young leaders.

The head of the working group, Alexandre Akobidze, presented the work of the group, and member of the group Eliso Jikia presented the results of the third monitoring of public administration reform, carried out within the framework of the project.

During the round table, the participants were introduced to the effectiveness of the hotline, activated after the implementation of the mini-project. They talked about a code of ethics that will soon take its final form. The recommendations developed after analyzing the monitoring in terms of gender and participatory budget, adaptation of the city hall building and other topical issues were also significant.

Discussion of the work in frames of sub-grants, development of a strategy and plan-schedule for the project implementation, envisaging relevant regulations during pandemic; consideration of issues for a round table, coordination with speakers, selection of a facilitator, familiarization with the recommendations, received as a result of the third monitoring of public administration reform and plans for the future.

These issues were discussed by representatives of the Fund  of Women Entrepreneurs on April 23 and 26 in Tsageri and Ambrolauri during meetings with partner organizations and representatives of local government.

The work is carried out in the framework of the project “A common forum for CSOs from Guria, Imereti and Racha-Lechkhumi for PAR Roadmap monitoring”.

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