In the air of TV Company “Egrisi” there was aired a story regarding the project of Senaki Gender Advisory Council “Prevention of domestic violence in Senaki Municipality”. The story reflects the activities in frames of the project, organizational meeting with representatives of Governor of  Senaki Municipality, training for thrainers on the issue of gender and domestic violence, informational meetings, conducted by the young people.

The project is implemented with the support
 of the UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality
“Gender News” of the Radio “Freedom” tells about creation of GAC networks in Batumi. The meeting was held on June 29-30.
As it was aired in the story, the network joins Btumi, Kutaisi, Ozurgeti, Senaki GACs, which actively cooperate with self-governments for establishment of gender policy on local level.
Chairperson of Ozurgeti GAC – Lela Natsvaladze mentioned that the network is based on the experience of four municipalities, also on political will from the side of self-governemnt. The following phase was common strategy and joint projects.
Members of self-government of Senaki gave high evaluation to the projects, which were implemented y the GAC and expressed a hope that network will give high motivation to social activities.
“Democracy will not be developed without our inclusion. The GAC worked on common strategy, underlined local problems and defined the ways of collaboration eith self-government and other institutions for their solution”, - mentioned Meri Gelashvili, coordibator of the project of the Fund “Sukhumi”.
“We are glad that the legislative act, which was submitted to Parliament and which should carry out institutionalization of local gender councils, is a good practical illustration as the GACs, created by the fund “Sukhumi”, which has lots of vivid results in its “active”- was mentioned in the story.
 
 
The project is implemented with the support  of the U.S. Department of State

 

The radio “Dzveli Kalali” there was aired a story which told the audience about activity of Kutaisi GAC.

It was mentioned that the work of GAC is in the interesting phase: the research local civil groups needs was finished. There were revealed lots of interesting issues of different groups of women, youth, socially unprotected people, people with disabilities. The GAC has to envisage interests of these groups in the budget in cooperation with self-government. 

The story aired information about youth project implemented by the GAC with financial support of the fund “Sukhumi” and Kutaisi City Hall. Project participants poke about the project activities and recommendations, prepared by the different youth groups.

The project is implemented with the support
of the UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality
Fund “Sukhumi” organized a work-shop for the staff of kindergartens on: “Gender, gender roles, gender education in pre-school premises”. The work-shop was interesting for the participants and they got motivated to make changes in their working process. Journalists of the TV “Rioni” prepared a story on this concrete issue.
 
 
The project  is implemented with the support of the
Czech non-governmental organization «The independent socio-environmental movement»

 

 
Training on “Analysis of Georgian – Abkhazian conflict, gender aspects of post-conflict regulation (including creative methods)”.
The story, prepared by the journalists of TV “Rioni”, tells the audience about this interesting and strange training, about participants and once again underlines peacekeeping vision of Georgian society.
The training was held in frames of joint Georgian – Abkhazian project “Strengthening of women’s voices on the level of decision making” (donor: federal department of foreign affairs of Switzerland).
 
The project  is implemented with the support of  Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
 of Switzerland FDFA

 

On September 26 and 29, three blocks of “Gender News” were devoted to the results of the work of Batumi GAC.
By the position of the council, in future budget of the city there must be reflected recommendations, elaborated as a results of the research. There was a conversation regarding trainings with self-government staff, which covered the issues of gender education, including the most important challenge – discrimination by gender point of view and different types of violence. There were also revealed the mechanisms against domestic violence and possibilities and responsibility of self-government for problem solution.
 
The project is implemented with the support  of the U.S. Department of State

 

 

A new partnership project was launched, supported by the Visegrad Fund V 4. Representatives of the Fund "Sukhumi" shared this information on TV "Rioni" with the audience of Western Georgia: impressions from the first meeting, the training course in Prague (Czech Republic) with all partners of the project, about the experience of 9 experts who told about their countries in terms of gender mainstreaming at the local level, about the opportunity to visit and get to know one of the municipalities - Prague 10.

The project is implemented with the support  of the Visegrad Fund 

There were several issues touched in the program – common strategy of the GAC, main directions of the work regarding establishment of gender policy in gender budgeting on the local level. Assistants of the project summarized results of project year, spoke about results and challenges.
It was mentioned that self-government of Kutaisi, Senaki and Ozurgeti are more and more understanding towards the GAC, support their initiatives.
Chairperson of OzurgetiGAC, member of Sakrebulo – Lela Natsvaladze mentioned support of self-government not only on policy level, but in practice too, as a result Ozurgeti budget was announced as the most gender budget from the side of Parliament gender council. Local self-government considers it as a result of collaboration with the GAC.
Participants mentioned that creation of the GAC network is improved gender prospects and exchange of experience. Particular attention was paid to cooperation with parliament . It was mentioned that in nearest future the meeting will be held and now the issues joint activities are defined between the GAC network and Gender Council of the Parliament.
 
 
The project is implemented with the support
 of the UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality

 

What was revealed as a result of research, conducted by Senaki GAC and what is planned for advocacy of identified needs, how do the GAC members evaluate creation of network and what are their expectations on the background of coordination and cooperation, integrity of which issues are in the aims of future budget and what challenges rae noticed by the GAC members.
Opinions of Senaki GAC members regarding these issues were announced in the radio story of “Dzveli Kalaki”.
“the GACs always tried to exchange information, we are glad that the network will give more possibilities for this”, “in the previous year, part of our recommendations were envisaged by Sakrebulo. We have a hope that in this year it will be implemented with great success”, “GAC made more than it was expected. Gender is not so strange for the society. Now we have more experience and resources, so we will continue the work successfully”.
 
The project is implemented with the support
 of the UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality

 

On what phase of activity is Ozurgeti Gender Advisory Council, which are the projects, that will be implemented for different public groups of ozurgeti Municipality in new 2016 budget, long-term strategy for women support, where Ozurgeti GAC has a hope of local self-governmenr, successes, future plans, challenges – these issues were discussed in radio story, aired in radio “Dzveli Kalaki”.
The story also responds to the network meeting of the GACs, organized by the fund 
“Sukhumi”. It was highly appreciated by invited experts – guests, local government representatives, as the view of local government was created and recommendations were elaborated for new state action plan of protecting women from domestic violence, which will be signed in nearest future. 
 
 
The project is implemented with the support
 of the UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality

 

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