In schools No3 Tskaltubo, No7 Senaki and No2 Poti there were held informational meetings of the youth clubs.

Together with the familiar participants the meetings were also attended by new ones.

Discussion of the topic caused controversy. Discussions were active and intense. Participants gave examples and openly talked about people of a different opinion, creed or nationality.

The general opinion of the participants of the meeting is: "I am annoyed by all - not like me, but I was not possessed by aggression and therefore I declare that I am tolerant."

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.

In the Center of Democratic Engagement there gathered the members of the Club of Voter Women of Batumi. Participants of the meeting spoke about the issues, advocacy of which was carried out also defined the needs of new beneficiaries and strategy of advocating their problem. In parallel with other issues, it was decided to advocate the question of free psychological conultations for the disabled in the Ministry of Health and social care.

At a meeting of the club there was distributed information about government social programs. They decided that the advocacy group comes to all relevant government services to obtain detailed information about the programs and groups, who are the beneficiaries and helps to use these programs.

It has been said that the Club of Women Voters and the Gender Advisory Council are trying to contribute to citizens' communications, and first of all the women's groups, with local government.