The second meeting of a common forum for CSOs was held on January 17, in the frameworks of the project “A common forum for CSOs from Guria, Imereti and Racha-Lechkhumi for PAR Roadmap monitoring”.

The forum member CSOs discussed and adopted the Regulations of a Common forum. Representatives of the CSOs from Lanchkhuti and Ozurgeti municipalities made presentations on the current situation of the public administration in their municipalities.

The meeting participants had the opportunity to ask questions and share their opinions.

The project is implemented with the support the European Union - #EU4Georgia

The project “Online Vote-O-Meter for 2020 Georgian Parliamentary Elections”, supported by Visegrad International Fund is ongoing.

The Georgian experts have finished to prepare the policy documents. One of the Policy documents analyses importance of political and public trust for stable development of Democracy in Georgia. The second policy document discusses the possible models of electoral systems for 2020 parliamentary elections proposed by the main political parties in Georgia.

The project is implemented with the support  of the Visegrad Fund

On January 14, a regular meeting of the partner organizations was held in the office of Fund “Sukhumi” within the framework of the project “A common forum for CSOs from Guria, Imereti and Racha-Lechkhumi for PAR Roadmap monitoring”, funded by the European Union.

The project implementers discussed the forthcoming CSO Forum meeting and a training on PAR monitoring.

A coordination meeting was held in Zugdidi Sakrebulo conference hall. The meeting was attended by representatives of the regional administration of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti and 7 municipalities of the region, members of the Gender Equality Councils, chairpersons of social and health services. The meeting participants spoke about the work of the municipal Gender Equality Councils and the importance of coordination of this work from the side of  the regional administration, also - on providing the necessary information to relevant national structures.

The main issue was identified - the importance of introducing municipal gender policy by the Gender Equality Councils and the need to work to prevent violence against women / domestic violence and protect the victim.