Training courses continued actively. Another five meetings were held in the Youth Empowerment Centers of Bagdati, Vani, Samtredia, Chokhatauri and Senaki.

School directors, teachers, representatives of youth services took part in the trainings. The process was interesting and fruitful in all municipalities.

At the meeting, the participants were also informed about the practical guide/toolkit: "Preventing and responding to gender-based violence in war and post-war settings - experiences and recommendations of women's NGOs", which was developed by the WAVE Network in collaboration with its four WAVE members in 2022 by the support of the OSCE. The Toolkit describes best practices and the strategies employed by the women's NGOs to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in different phases of conflict.

• Strategies during Wartime and emergency response settings were shared by Ukrainian and Armenian partners Sexual Assault Crisis Center (Yerevan, Armenia), Centre “Women’s Perspectives” (Lviv, Ukraine);
• Strategies during Protracted conflict were described by the Women's Foundation "Sukhumi" (Kutaisi, Tbilisi, Georgia);
• Strategies during Post-war and long-term perspective were based on the experience of the Bosnia-Herzegovina partner. Foundation United Women Banja Luka (Banja Luka, Bosnia & Herzegovina)

(A practical guide is available here https://www.osce.org/secretariat/530695)

The total number of participants of 10 trainings held in April is 266 people. Everyone showed great interest towards the training course. This is very important to us and always gives more effect to our work.

The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot

 für die Welt - Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (Germany)

New forum theater scenes were created in the youth groups of Tskaltubo public schools No 1 and No 4. The scenes deal with domestic violence, bullying, the feelings and emotions of the victim. Both groups will hold discussions in different schools of Tskaltubo with the help of these scenes, and the members of the women initiative group heard the results of the research and got acquainted with the recommendations. The research revealed the threats that women are particularly worried about in terms of security. The members of the group will try to take into account the highlighted recommendations through advocacy.

The members of Senaki women initiative group got acquainted with the results of the research conducted within the project. Faulty infrastructure, unemployment, frequent domestic violence, low quality of education - the research identified the main threats that violate the basic standards of human security. From next month, members of the group will try to advocate the identified problems. The members of the youth group created a new performance in the format of a forum-theatre, which presents the main reasons of domestic violence. Young actors will perform these scenes in front of different audiences and hold discussions.

Since the initiation of the Russian draft law, we have launched a social campaign "No Russian law". Representatives of various fields of society and our female leaders actively participated in the campaign as volunteers.

All the Georgian people were united in the aforementioned contradictory process, which called up this draft law.

Our monitoring and advocacy team has started work on a new study - "Evaluation of the effectiveness of prevention tools of violence against women or/and domestic violence at the municipal level".

Monitoring is currently underway in the following target municipalities: Tkibuli, Baghdati, Terjola, Vani, Samtredia, Chokhatauri, Tsalenjikha, Zugdidi, Senak, Kobuleti.

With the cooperation of Khoni women initiative groups, the Gender Equality Council and the Community Education Center, a variety of activities were held under the slogan "No to violence". Within the framework of the event, the Mayor of the municipality Lado Jurkhadze, members of the Gender Equality Council of Khoni City Council, representatives of the Fund “Sukhumi” and the attendees took part in the creation of the composition of "Street Art" and said "no" to violence with their handprints. Within the framework of the festival, the representative of the Fund “Sukhumi” presented the results of the research "Assessment of the quality of human security and gender needs of the population" at the House of Culture on Abkhazeti Street. A discussion was also held. The members of the youth club of the public school No 3 of Khoni municipality worked on the scenes of the forum theater. The school director also attended the process. The young people made parformance at the gender festival and were well received. At the same time, they work on ideas for a mini project to be presented to the competition commission.

 At the beginning of the meeting, the members of the women initiative group got acquainted with the presentation of the research, and then they actively participated in the training on the topic - "Women and youth in the peace movement; promotion of the implementation of 1325 and 2250 UN resolutions ". At the end of the training, the participants were awarded with certificates. The members of Kutaisi Youth Club continue to work on the scenes of the Forum Theater and also discuss the ideas of the mini project. The project should be presented to the competition commission for consideration.

The women initiative group of the village Koki - Zugdidi municipality worked on the research "Assessment of the quality of human security and gender needs of the population in Zugdidi municipality". Based on the results, the members pointed out current problems in their community. As a result, they will continue to work in the direction of advocacy. The members of the youth club of the village Koki also work on project ideas. They already have a specific goal and planned activities. Young people are actively involved in forum-theatre. Magda Chikhladze, the director of the Fund "Sukhumi", visited them and held a master class.

"Assessment of the quality of human security and gender needs of the population in Zugdidi Municipality" - the members of Didinedze women's initiative group conducted a research on this topic. The scenes of the forum theater and the idea of the project, which should be presented to the competition commission, are already started by the members of the youth club. The director of the Fund "Sukhumi", Magda Chikhladze, conducted a master class for them.

The women initiative group of the village Pakhulani -Tsalenjikha municipality conducted a research on the topic: "Evaluation of the quality of human security and gender needs of the population in Tsalenjikha municipality". The results are already known. Based on the research, actual problems were identified.