Members of the Club of Women-Voters evaluated the meeting held in Tskhaltubo on January 17th as interesting and productive.
The productiveness of the meeting was conditioned by the discussed issues.
During the first part of the meeting a lawyer of Fund "Sukhumi” explained members of the Club what means the rule of granting maternity pay in the legislation, and introduced an initiative of fund "Sukhumi" about amendments in the existing Law regarding issuance of financial aid for unemployed women giving birth in the amount of 600 GEL.
Then participants of the meeting were acquainted with the information about the project realized with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Georgia. The project objective is to involve women IDPs in gender monitoring of the programmes of local self-government.
Members of the club think that this project will give society opportunity to better acquaint with the work of the local self-government and with the programmes implemented at the local level.
The project is implemented with the support of the organization NED – National Endowment for Democracy, USA.
