Informational meetings of the Youth Clubs in March received a special load, as they were devoted to the theme of women's solidarity.
The history of the 8th of March and the women's movement, the solidarity of women for the prevention of violence, Georgian traditions, stereotyped thinking - these issues were touched upon by young people who gathered in schools No. 1 of Tskhaltubo, No. 7 - Poti, No. 7 - Senaki, in the village of Nakhakhulevi (Khoni municipality) Koki (Zugdidi Municipality), as well as in the private school "21st Century" in Kutaisi.
As a result of active involvement of young people, interesting discussions were held and it was fixed that March 8 should not be associated only with the holiday, flowers and cheerful mood, it is a day of solidarity and shows how to find ways to solve the problems of women.
40 women attended the club of voter women in Ozurgeti – Center of Democratic Engagement: representatives of local government, Gender Advisory Council, different services.
The audience spoke about actual problems of the city and ways of their advocacy. Future plans were defined.
Similar meetings are good ways of coordination of their work in frames of the project “Gender Advisory Councils – raising of women’s role in social changes of the region”.
Member of the Club of Voter Women – Lia Gvenetadze is a majoritarian candidate of Parliament. The club held an expanded meeting and invited a colleague. Mrs. Lia acquainted the participants with the program, said what she is going to change if elected as a Member of Parliament. Many points of the program are responses to the questions raised to Club. The participants talked about topical issues and received answers from the candidate.
The project is implemented with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Georgia
The 2nd of December is a special day for Fund “Sukhumi”. For the first time in history Fund “Sukhumi” - a Georgian NGO has been awarded by the French Embassy with an International Distinction in the field of Human Rights.
The Chairperson of Fund “Sukhumi” Mrs. Alla Gamakharia and the Head of the Fund’s representation in Tbilisi Mrs. Ekaterina Gamakharia took part in the official 2018 Human Rights Prizes Ceremony. The prize was awarded by the Ambassador of France to Georgia, H.E. Pascal Meunier.
The ceremony was organized by the French Embassy and the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands in Georgia in Tbilisi.
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We are a group of women- internally displaced people (IDPs) who come together to establish a women’s non-governmental organisation in Kutaisi, Western Georgia in October, 1997. Our group was created after the Georgian population had to flee Abkhazia as a result of the armed conflict in 1992-1993. Having become IDPs we encountered a wide range of problems, which could only be solved by uniting and supporting each other. Even though there were other women’s organisations in Kutaisi, we realized that as women- IDPs we had deferent needs and our particular situation was more understandable to women from Abkhazia.
Our organisational mission:
Development of women’s activity through educational, legal, economic, social, cultural activities to increase women’s role in building a democratic society in Georgia, in the peaceful resolution of the conflict in Abkhazia, and achieving economic independence
Our organisational structure:
The Foundation is governed by the Board and its chairperson and is regulated by the charter and internal regulations. The Board is a permanent body consisting of 5 members, who meet quarterly.
There are 28 employees in the organisation, all of whom work passionately with activists and volunteers to show them by example how our organisation makes contribution to the development of civil society and peace. Operational decisions are made by the chairperson of Foundation, whereas strategic decisions are made by the Board and Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the organisation.
The main directions of our organisation’s activity:
- * Woman and gender equality
- * Woman and peacebuilding
- * Woman and non-violent society
- * Work with youth
Types of our organisation’s activity:
- * Civil Education
- * Research
- * Information and Public awareness
- * Advocacy
Project title: Gender Advisory Councils – increasing women’s role in social changes of regions
Donor:UN Women Fund for Gender Equality
Project title: Gender Advisory Council - improved outlook, strengthening women's rights and good governance in the region.
Donor: U.S. State Department
Project title: “Change of the policy of local government regarding gender budgeting”
Donor: Czech non-governmental organization «The independent socio-environmental movement»
Project title: Strengthening women’s voices in decision-making
Donor: Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland FDFA
Project title: Active involvement of women in political life of Georgia through democratization of election processes
Donor: U.S. Embassy, Georgia
Project title: To promote social and political non-violent conflict resolution among IDP communities of western Georgia, by training youth, including gender specific attitudes towards the matter
Donor: Canadian Embassy in Turkey
Project title: Improving the living conditions of women victims of violence and women of the risk groups. "Road to the Future".
Donor: The International Women’s Association Georgia (IWAG) Community Projects Committee (CPC)
Project title: Shadow Theater for Promoting Gender Equality
Donor: French embassy in Georgia
Project title:Learning from Visegrad 4 experience to advocate for equal, inclusive and democratic local governance
Donor: of the Visegrad Fund
Project title: Involvement of NGOs working on issues of social protection, in the strategic dialogue in Georgia
Donor: the Czech organization PIN - People in Need
Project title: Overcoming the consequences of war together
In partnership with DRA – German-Russian exchange
Project title: Strengthening of medical staff to protect the victims of domestic violence
Donor: The British Embassy Tbilisi
Project title: Step by step - we will build a peace without violence
Donor: NGO “Women for Development” (Armenia)
Project title: Strengthening the capacity of regional and local administrations in processes of localization of the National Action Plan 1325 The UN Security Council and activation of dialogue and the participation of women, including the most marginalized ones, in these processes.
Coalition unity - the Association of IDP Women “Consent” (Tbilisi), the Women's Information Center (Tbilisi) and Cultural - Humanitarian Fund “Sukhumi” (Kutaisi)
Donor: US State Department and UN Women Organization
Project title: Reinforcing the Domestic Violence Prevention System, Victims Support and Perpetrators Therapy System
Donor: HumanDoc foundation (Poland)
Project title: Women identify the level of human security to build confidence and sustainable peace
Donor: Kvinna till Kvinna, Swedish Women Fund
Project title: “Strengthening of women’s rights in Western Georgia”
Donor: Brotfür die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)
Project title: Early Conflict Prevention - Theory and Practice
Donor: Kvinna till Kvinna, Swedish Women Fund
Project title: A common forum for CSOs from Guria, Imereti and Racha-Lechkhumi for PAR Roadmap monitoring
Donor: European Union
Project title: Online Vote-O-Meter for 2020 Georgian Parliamentary Elections
Donor: International Visegrad Fund
Project title: Reinforcing the Domestic Violence Prevention System, Victims Support and Perpetrators Therapy System
Donor: HumanDoc foundation (Poland)
Sanatorium “Metalurg”, “Kolkheti”, “Samgurali” new settlement – in these IDP collective centers there were held workshops with the young people, who passed trainings in advocacy.
During the workshops the participants named many problems of their collective centers. Poor living conditions, high rate of electricity, the problem of stray dogs, the problem is a defective sewage system, contamination of the area, street lighting, the lack of children's entertainment venues ...
Workshop participants decided to start advocacy themselves in cooperation with local self-government for solution of existing problems.
The project is implemented with the support of the Czech organization PIN (donor - World Bank)