On February 2, in Senaki there was held the first meeting of the Club of Voter Women of the current year. The meeting was attended by members of Sakrebulo, chairperson of gender advisory council – Nana Alania and active members of the council: Inga kardava and Eliso Tsaguria.

The club members heard information regarding the programs of 2016 budget.

During the discussions, the club membersspoke about different problems: restoration of social status, equipment of kindergartens and gasification.

The members of Sakrebulo discussed all problems and promised the participants to solve them in nearest future.

This is a good example of collaboration between population and self-government with support of Gender Advisory Council.

The women, who gathered for the final meeting of Kutaisi Club of Voter Women familiarized with the magazine: “Gender Advisory Councils”, which describes results and achievements of the work in three-year project.

The meeting participants analyzed strength and weaknesses, spoke about challenges and possibilities.

The project is finished, but the club will continue working in frames of the new project, which means cooperation with local government, political parties, supporting women for elections.

Women also spoke about solved problems and about other issues, that should be solved. They have already chosen some of the problems for advocacy.

At the information meetings of the Youth Clubs, the topic of advocacy was discussed.

The students from the Mendji school (Senak Municipality) expressed great interest in the matter. A meeting was held in the Youth Club of Kutaisi.

A volunteer of fund “Sukhumi”, an expert from Austria Gundi Dick attended the meeting in Tskhaltub School No. 1 named after Otía Ioseliani.

The meeting participants had many questions, they gave personal examples. Young people talked about the problems that they are going to advocate. They received advice on how to define the problem, how to create working groups, how to lead the advocacy process, so that it could be successfully completed.

At ordinary meeting of the club of voter women of Tskaltubo, there was discussion of memorandum for submission in regional organization of ruling party. Also they discussed social part of the party program, several priorities were allocated and by the name of the club will be prepared concrete recommendations, directed to improvement of women’s position. On the initiative of the club and with the help of Gamgeoba (administration of local government), inclusive children attended the performance of the puppet theatre. It was noted that similar activities are important for them and it will have systematic character.

Moderator and assistant of the club also met the deputy of parliament from Tskaltubo municipality – Tsotne Zurabiani, who expressed a will of cooperation with the club, which is aimed at activation of women and youth.

The project is implemented with the support  of the U.S. Embassy in Georgia 

On May 16, a regular meeting of the Club of Voter Women was held in the conference room of Khoni Gamgeoba, which was devoted to the discussion of constitutional changes, the public discussion of which in the different cities of Georgia over the past month had a huge resonance. In the opinion of activists of the Club, they are entitled and obliged to fix their position on this issue and submit them to the relevant authorities.

Members of Kutaisi Club of Voter Women waited for this meeting with particular interest. This was due to the fact that there was invited Lela Kelyui96iani - chairman of the finance and budget committee of Sakrebulo, a member of the Gender Advisory Council. Club members were waiting for this meeting and specially prepared questions. Ms. Lela familiarized them with the programs of the city budget and answered the questions. At the meeting, the focus was made on the creation Gender Equality Council at the municipal level, which is one of the pressing issues for the Club of Voter Women.

The project is implemented with the support  of the U.S. Embassy in Georgia 

Changes in the Constitution of Georgia, how these changes are acceptable to citizens, how this will affect the future of the state as a whole, which model of the state system will be implemented - discussion of these issues took place at the ordinary meeting of the Club of Voter Women in the meeting room of Senaki Sakrebulo. Members of the Club recorded their position.

The second part of the meeting was devoted to the SWOT analysis of the Club's work. The activists had the opportunity to make situational analysis, to think about the weaknesses  and strengths, to improve the activities.

The project is implemented with the support  of the U.S. Embassy in Georgia 

Club of Women Voters in Tskaltubo was carried out in different format – there was held a conference “16 active days against gender violence”. the conference was attended by representatives of self-government and fun “Sukhumi”, local and IDP women, youth.

The participants learned the history of campaign. Reports of the lawyer and psychologist concerned deplorable results of violence in adolescents. There was held a presentation of young people on: “No to Violence!”. there were fixed their opinions for the prevention of violence.

The meeting was held on the background of active inclusion of participants.

The Club of Voter Women was attended by guests - representatives from the City Hall of Ozurgeti and got acquainted with his work. In their opinion, the work of the Club is necessary for activating the women of the municipality, so that they have the motivation to be included in the political processes. Representatives of the City Hall stressed that the Club should make special efforts during the local government elections, so that women candidates would feel support, first of all, from the women themselves.