Meetings (629)
Meetings - in this category there is an information about meetings in frames of Fund “Sukhumi” projects - meetings with beneficiaries, representatives of state structures, local and international non-governmental organizations.
Meeting discussed the processes, which are planned for creation of gender councils on the basis of local self-government.
It is already started a work in this direction. The issue will be submitted to the meeting of Ozurgeti Sakrebulo, after that there will be discussed establishment of gender councellor position for the budget of the next year. The local government actively cooperates with the GAC in this direction.
It was decided that the GAC will familiarize all commissions with budget gender analysis, prepared by them. For this special meetings are appointed.
In Kutaisi there was formatted women initiative group. It is composed by active women with leader skills. One of them is organizer, who will lead the work of the group.
Group members – activists of the fund “Sukhumi”, who participated in activities of different format. They passed workshops on the issues of human security. The group members have the experience of advocacy. They have a desire to work more in this direction in future – help themselves and others in solution of the problem, existing in the society.
There started the next phase of the project "Women implementing inclusive approaches in the field of human security to build a sustainable world." After workshops on the theme of human security in Tskhaltubo, Kutaisi and Khoni there were created initiative groups of women.
Tskhaltubo initiative group consists of 6 women. Each of them is selected by a special survey. In one of the paragraphs of the questionnaire, why you want to become a member of the initiative group, the activists wrote that around them there are lots of problems that can be solved at the local level, and they want to be actively involved in the process of advocacy of these issues.
Members of the initiative group will have a special training, after which they will be included in advocacy of the issues.
Despite hot summer days, WSCs of Kutaisi, Tskaltubo, khoni, Senaki, Poti, Khurcha/Koki (Zugdidi Municipality) continue informational-mobilization meetings with beneficiaries. In July, the topic of the meeting was protective and arresting order, as the mechanism of victim protection.
The meetings mainly were held in collective centers, villages also with local population. There were discussions and questions, which were answered by the mobilizers.
Despite the completion of the project, the Gender Advisory Council (GAC) of Senaki continues its work and will contribute to the implementation of policies based on the public interest - was noted at the final conference summarizing the results and the achievement of three years of Senaki GAC work, which was held on July 25 at the hotel "Oscar" .
The conference was attended by top officials of the Municipality – Chairperson of Sakrebulo and Governor, deputies, heads of municipalities of the region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti (Abasha, Khobi, Tsalenjikha, Martvili), representatives of the Governor's Administration, representatives of Fund "Sukhumi", members of the Gender Advisory Council.
Speakers summarized three years of GAC experience, shared information on implemented projects, joint initiatives, conducted researches of local gender needs, cooperation with the Club of Women Voters and local media.
Representatives of municipalities invited to the conference appreciated the experience of Senaki GAC and noted that this work must necessarily be continued and supported, as such a vivid experience will help them in formation of their GACs according to legislative amendment on creation of councils recently adopted by the Parliament of Georgia.
Center of Education, Development and Employment organized informational forum for the IDPs. The work of forum was participated by the fund “Sukhumi”.
Representatives of small and middle enterprises, existing in Imereti, governmental and non-governmental organizations, suggested the IDPs the services, connected with increase of incomes (employment, professional training and re-training, informal education, internship…).
The three-year collaboration with the Gender Advisory Council (GAC) has been fruitful and results-oriented - this assessment was made on the part of the Ozurgeti local government at the conference, which was held on July 21 to summarize the results of Ozurgeti GAC.
The meeting was attended by representatives of Guria, a local self-government, Ozurgeti, Kutaisi and Senaki GACs, municipalities of Guria (Lanchkhuti and Chokhatauri) and Adzharia (Shuakhevi, Khulo, Keda, Khelvachauri, Kobuleti).
The main focus at the conference was made on the change made to the law on gender equality to create gender councils in municipalities. It was the main objective of the project. The results of the GACs, established in frames of pilot project will be exemplary for other municipalities.
With the assistance of Fund "Sukhumi" and local self-government, GAC of Ozurgeti has 8 projects. The meeting presented an analysis of the results obtained in the framework of projects.
On the part of local government there were highlighted a research of local gender needs and development of recommendations as a reference document for the local government and the local plan for the gender policy.
Kutaisi Gender Advisory Council (GAC) has summed up the three-year work. The conference was attended by representatives of 12 administrative units of Kutaisi municipality, members of Kutaisi, Ozurgeti, Senaki GACs, NGO representatives and media.
Speakers of the conference have focused on the results that are achieved within three years. It was noted that GAC has made a significant contribution to the creation of a gender policy at the local level. The result - in the budget in 2016 genderissues are reflected.
The results also were:the relevance of gender themes in the local media, the importance and priority of gender budgeting, legislative changes for creation of gender councils at the municipal level.
As was said at the conference, GAC experience and results will create a good basis for future Council of Kutaisi to work effectively in the direction of gender.
In the “Village House” of the village Orsantia (Zugdidi Municipality) there was shown a film of Georgian editor Zurab Inashvili “Speak!”
After the film there was held a round table, active discussion regarding the film and the issues raised in it.
This activity was held in frames of the project “Domestic violence and mechanisms of victims’ protection”.
There were invited women from the villages Ingiri and Didinedzi.
On July 18 in SOS childrens’ village of Kutaisi there was held uinformational meeting with the staff of the organization. The meeting was attended by the member of Sakrebulo – Lela kelyui96iani.
Meeting participants spoke about different problems and asked the representative of local self-government to help in solution of these problems.