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The fund “Sukhumi” conducted one more informational meeting with Georgian and Armenian population residing on Chokhatauri Street. Last year, the population raised the issues of repairing the flats (the roofs), damaged from the disaster, as well as the question of roads and gasification.

The meeting also announced problems of youth. It was said that there is no possibility for development of the youth – population demands from the state to build sport square or other places of amusement.

Residents of Chokhatauri Street addressed the Mayor for solution of this problem.

The project is implemented with the support

 of the UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality

Pleasant news: in Ozurgeti there were created youth Sakrebulo (with 15 members) and gender advisory council (with 5 members), which will be responsible for youth part of gender policy.

These young people were named during the youth forum of Ozurgeti GAC. The forum “gender culture” was held in conference hall of Ozurgeti Sakrebulo as the final step of the project “youth for support of gender policy support”.

High level of the forum was caused by:

Participants – pupils, trainers, GAC members, representatives if the fund “Sukhumi”.

Guests – political elite of Ozurgeti, heads and members of both Sakrebulos, representatives of different structures and media.

Form – expert view, group work, revealing of problems and the ways of their solution.

The work of forum was fruitful and achieved result – effectiveness of the project was obvious, working strategy was elaborated, new project proposals and initiatives were drafted, which will be supported by no means.

The project is implemented with the support

 of the UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality

In 6 collective centers of Kutaisi informational-consultative meeting was held with the IDPs, with participation of 45 women from 20 to 65 years old. At first the psychologist was met by 11 people.

Main issue of the meeting was “self-evaluation” – opinion about yourself, believe and seeing and evaluation of your own “I”.

Mini-lectures, discussions, tests were held. Also two individual consultations regarding relations between parents and children were conducted.

The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot

 für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklunsdienst (Germany)

Project “Youth for Promotion of Gender Policy”, implemented by Ozurgeti Gender Advisory Council, shows gender education of the pupils of upper classes from 5 schools, idea of alternative youth Sakrebulo and gender council, summarizing forum, which made obvious the results of the project – TV story in “Guria” show position of the youth participating in the project, GAC members, and positions of self-government.

“We hope that these young people will be actively involved in the life of region, city. They have interesting ideas and the main thing, they love their town” – these are evaluations of young people’s enthusiasm made by GAC members.

The project is implemented with the support

 of the UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality

On January 30 fund “Sukhumi” conducted round table in frames of the project “Involvement of the IDPs residing in Kutaissi in Municipal 2015 budget discussion and advocacy process with the aim of envisaging their specific demands”.

In three collective centers (hotel “Kolkheti”, musical school-asylum, auto factory settlement), the IDPs met representatives of Kutaisi Sakrebulo and different services of the City Hall, IDP territorial body and Abkhazian Autonomous Republic.

Representatives of the state structures familiarized with IDP problems and package of suggestions, they came prepared and answered numbers of actual questions.

The IDPs learned that it is important to create landlord communities, in order to receive services relevant for the programs envisaged by the budget from self-government.

Representatives of Sakrebulo and City Hall gave their phone numbers to the audience and promised to assist them in some issues. This is an example of collaboration between society and local government for improvement of IDP living conditions.