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The first meeting of the Gender Advisory Council took place at the City Council of the self-governing city of Kutaisi.

At the meeting was elected the board of the Council, the City Council members: Chairperson – George Shavgulidze, Deputy Chairperson - Raul Korchilava.

A number of recommendations and suggestions were provided during the discussion of the Council’s Statute, and directions of further work were determined.

"Our activities must be efficient, creative, and interesting. We must seriously think on what we are going to do in terms of gender equality. We would be happy to be the pioneers in this field”- mentioned George Shavgulidze.

The project is implemented with the support

 of the UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality

The workshop with girl participants, with the discussion topic conflicts and their management mechanisms, was very interesting!

Members of debate club discussed when the family conflicts begin and develop, how "appear" the victim and the perpetrator.

According to young people, family conflicts have always existed, but nobody talked about it because it was related to their family prestige.

Participants believe that conflicts in family lead to violence. The deeper conflict becomes the harder is to solve it.

The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot

 für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)

The youth centre chose an issue of domestic conflicts and violence as the topic of debates in Tskaltubo.16 young people talked about the connection between domestic conflicts and violence and discussed the negative results of violence, the psychology of a perpetrator and victim.

It was mentioned at the meeting that frequent conflicts lead to violence. If we master the "secrets” of conflict management, it will be easy to avoid violence.

The project is implemented with the support of Kvinna till Kvinna,

 women’s Foundation (Sweden)a