One more important publication of the fund “Sukhumi” on actual issue: “Gender Mainstreaming in Local Self-Government”. It is a collection of the works of the experts from different countries, which aims at promoting gender policy in local government envisaging the experience of Visegrad countries and Georgia.
The researches were carried out in frames of the project “Learning from Visegrad 4 experience to advocate for equal, inclusive and democratic local governance”.
This publication, more than any other, is a product of team effort.
We worked together, with pleasure and interest. Talking about your own positive results naturally causes such feelings.
In 2013-2016 Fund “Sukhumi” implemented a very challenging, important and ambitious project “Gender Advisory Councils – increasing women’s role in social changes of regions”. The project turned out to be more successful than expected - establishing Gender Advisory Councils in Kutaisi, Ozurgeti and Senaki helped increase women’s role and also brought some social changes to regions.
Moreover, state legislation now makes provisions for establishing gender councils.
How did we start? What did we do? How did we achieve our goals? The book tries to answer all these questions.
In this book we will tell you about the roads we took, our rich three-year experience, changes that we witnessed at the end of the project, the impact on society, government agencies and media, the people who contributed to these changes.
Three special years were completed - innovations, study, initiatives, strengthening, cooperation.
This is the third summarizing issue that reflects a three-year activity, changes in the project. People involved in the project, share with us their experiences, thoughts, impressions, experiences, talk about the changes....
Of course, the reader will read many interesting things in this publication, but it is impossible to cover everything, since the past three years - three times 365 days - was really special, full of successes and generous to them ...
At the initiative of fund "Sukhumi" another methodological guide was published, that will help all interested people in monitoring and gender analysis of the budget.
First of all it will help place to Gender Advisory Councils of Kutaisi, Senaki, Ozurgeti and Batumi, who carry out analysis of local gender needs and the budget, in order to make recommendations for the implementation of relevant programs in the budget programs of self-government.
The project is implemented with the support
of the UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality