The Cultural-Humanitarian Fund “Sukhumi” organized webinar on "How to plan and conduct advocacy campaign".
16 civil society organizations from Guria, Imereti and Racha-Lechkhumi participated in the webinar. The purpose of this online training was to familiarize the the representatives of the Civic Forum to the essence and importance of advocacy; stages of advocacy planning and forms of implementation; basic principles of advocacy strategy development.
During the training, participants learned about examples of best practices in advocacy. Also, during the group work at the training, the participants had the opportunity to compose short plans of their own advocacy.
The project is implemented with the support the European Union - #EU4Georgia
On April 22, the Cultural - Humanitarian Fund “Sukhumi” organized a webinar on the topic of "Development of Projects and Grant Applications" within the framework of the project "Common Forum for CSOs from Guria, Imereti and Racha-Lechkhumi for PAR Roadmap Monitoring". 16 civil society organizations from Guria, Imereti and Racha-Lechkhumi participated in the webinar. The aim of this webinar was to introduce the representatives of the Civic Forum to the complex process and stages of composing the grant applications. Participants received information that will help them to better design and formulate a project idea.
The project is implemented with the support the European Union - #EU4Georgia
On February 21, a training on Regional needs assessment with participation of wider civil society for implementation of roadmap (PAR) at local level was held. The training was organized by the Fund of Women Entrepreneurs in the Hotel “Bagrati 1003”, Kutaisi.
16 civil society organizations from Guria, Imereti and Racha-Lechkhumi participated in the training.
Acquired theoretical knowledge and practical work give training participants the opportunity to use gained experience to better identify needs for the implementation of the Roadmap (PAR).
The project is implemented with the support the European Union - #EU4Georgia
A training on “Public Administration Reform (PAR) Roadmap and implementation of the PAR roadmap monitoring at municipal level” was held for the CSO Forum members on January 17, within the framework of the project “A common forum for CSOs from Guria, Imereti and Racha-Lechkhumi for PAR Roadmap monitoring”.
The training participants received information on planning and implementation of a civil monitoring at the municipal level and the monitoring mechanism, developed by the project implementing organizations.
Based on the monitoring mechanism, the CSO from eight target municipalities will carry out PAR monitoring in their respective municipalities.
The project is implemented with the support the European Union - #EU4Georgia
Women Support Centers of the Fund “Sukhumi” successfully carry out small projects in their municipalities. Starting from the new year, they will begin to work on new projects. And before that, a three-day training for mobilizers was held in Borjomi on: “Project Design and Management”. They shared their experiences with each other, talked about achievements and challenges. Strategic directions were developed at the training. During the working process, with a combination of theory and practice, the mobilizers were given the opportunity to individually develop project proposals.
4 trainings on: “The role of the police in prevention of violence and protection of the victim” was held for the officers of criminal and patrol police of 10 municipalities of Imereti: Tskaltubo, Samtredia, Zestaponi and Chiatura.
The training was attended by 101 police officers. The following topics were discussed: law enforcement agencies, as a guarantor for the safety of the victim of domestic violence, mechanisms of effective use of the legislative and legal framework, gender aspects of communication and cooperation with the victim.
The training was organized by the Human Doc Foundation in cooperation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia and the Fund “Sukhumi”.
The project is supported by the development cooperation program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland.
- Identification of the problem of violence, communication with the child and referral stages, legal mechanisms and the role of teachers in violence prevention, international documents - topic of four-day training was carried out on the background of interactive inclusions and live discussions.
According to participants, the training was a good opportunity for them to analyze the consequences of domestic violence, and to think about preventive mechanisms.
The training was held on July 10-13 in Kobuleti. The topic: "The role of teachers in violence prevention and the protection to the victim." Teachers from various schools of six municipalities of Imereti took part in it: Tskaltubo, Khoni, Terjola, Samtredia, Vani and Bagdati.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization
HumanDoc foundation (Poland)
On July 13–17, the Fund “Sukhumi” conducted the second training for teachers and school directors of 5 municipalities of Imereti. The training was held in Kobuleti. The topic was “The role of teachers in prevention of domestic violence and protection to the victims”.
The first day Lado Abkhazava worked with the participants. He is the finalist of the Global Teachers Award, the ambassador of the Vark Fund and a winner of a global award. He shared his personal experiences with colleagues.
The training was held with maximal inclusion and activity of the participants.
According to the participants:
- I am leaving the training with full “suitcase” of knowledge and information: I learned about my direct duties, how to identify the problem of violence. And the most important, I met with colleagues from different municipalities.
- I participated in many professional trainings. Here was a special approach, I learned about the practice of different participants, got acquainted with legal issues, received consultations.
- I will share the information and received materials to my colleagues. I think that all teachers should attend such training in order to make proper identification and referring.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization
HumanDoc foundation (Poland)
On June 15-19, a training for medical staff was held in Kobuleti with participation of 19 women from Tskaltubo, Khoni, Vani, Terjola and Samtredia Municipalities.
The topic of training was: “The role of medical staff in violence prevention and victim protection”. Different issues were discussed during the training, including: violence against women and children, the Istanbul Convention, referral mechanisms, groups of victim identification ...
Participants for the first time attended the training of such format. According to them, this work is relevant and necessary.
“We talked about resources that doctors have to identify violence and will definitely introduce these methods into practice.”
“It was the first time they discussed the reasons of the problems, evaluated their actions, where we behave correctly, and where the behavior is wrong... This will increase the involvement of doctors in victims’ assistance.”
That is how doctors evaluate training.
This was the second training on the topic: “The role of medical staff in prevention of violence and protection of victim”, which was held in Kobuleti June 19-22.
19 persons of medical sphere from five municipalities of Imereti (Bagdati, Khoni, Vani, Terjola, Samtredia) participated in the training.