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The theme of the Round table, carried out within the framework of the 16 Days Campaign Against Gender Violence, was "Integration of people with disabilities”.

In the meeting participated representatives of different structures, students, and pupils.

During the meeting were identified problems and elaborated recommendations: work to increase society’s consciousness, use correct terminology, provide information for representatives of different generations, conduct training.

The output of cooperation with Fund "Sukhumi” was named an initiative of local self government of Tskhaltubo to allocate a specialist from the group working on social issues who would be trained in counseling of victims of violence, cooperate with the subjects of State referral mechanisms and NGOs interested in solution of the issue.

Another Round table meeting on "State referral mechanisms of protection from violence – principles and opportunities” was organized in Tskhaltubo on October 24.

The meeting participants were IDP community, teachers, senior pupils, journalists, representatives of local self government and social agency.

The meeting participants expressed an opinion that addressing the problem of violence is impossible without creation and introduction of relevant state mechanisms. It is necessary to raise awareness of society that people could use the State mechanisms in practice.

There were emphasized the opportunities of social protection, the tendency of popularization of the Institute of social workers institution and also initiated perspectives of new cooperation.  

The project is implemented with the support of the organization EED Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst.

A Round table meeting on the theme "Principles and opportunities of state referral mechanisms for protection against violence" was held in the Women’s Support Centre in Senaki. The meeting was attended by representatives of social agencies of local self-government and law-enforcement bodies, teachers, lawyers, youth and women IDPs.

The project is implemented with the support of the organization EED Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst.

Another Round table meeting was held by Fund "Sukhumi” within the framework of the project "Contribution to IDP women’s integration in local society through their involvement monitoring of local self-government activities”.

This time participants of the meeting gathered in Khoni municipality.

Members of the monitoring group of Fund "Sukhumi” presented to the representatives of Sakrebulo, the municipality, local and IDP society, journalists their report on monitoring of the programmes of the local self government budget taking into account gender aspects.

The monitoring showed that the society in Khoni can not distinguish itself by social activity. As to the members of the local self government, despite their willingness, they are still lack of the practice in constructive dialogue with citizens and the participants emphasized its necessity.

There was expressed an opinion that the common starting conditions would be more fair for all the citizens of Georgia. For example, if Tbilisi citizens don’t have any social benefits compared with Khoni citizens, only because of the fact that Tbilisi budget is bigger than the Khoni one.

The participants said that there should be a political will. Though, they listed the issues which need to be solved even in case of scanty budget. For example, the problem of water supply which was not solved despite the permanent advocacy.

As to the cooperation with local self government, initiated by Fund "Sukhumi”, it was positively assessed.

Representatives of the League of Women-Voters of the seven cities in Western Georgia (Kutaisi, Tskhaltubo, Khoni, Batumi, Zugdidi, Ozurgeti) gathered around the round table in the conference room of fund "Sukhumi".

Participants have positively evaluated annual activity of the Club of Women-Voters. As a result of the workshops on advocacy and lobby, leader and his/her team, expected outcomes in the Election code the level of activity and awareness of society has increased. There were formed advocacy groups consisting of five people who could manage to solve the problems with water supply and electricity, as well as other everyday issues. There was released a calendar that reflects the work of the League of Women-Voters. There have been organized many cultural and exchange activities.

The participants were especially interested in the topics – pre-election training of political parties, acquaintance with the Law on domestic violence (Action plan) and its analysis.

By the end of the day there was done a group work – parliamentary elections – challenges and ways of solution. In the meeting participated a coordinator of Swedish women’s organization Kvinna till Kvinna in Georgia Marie Wirde.

- I am happy to be with you. Our organization has been working with Fund "Sukhumi” for several years. Our purpose is to have as many women-leaders as possible to achieve peace all over the world! We are planning to conduct workshops and trainings for women in different regions of Western Georgia, - said Marie Wirde.

The project is implemented with the support of the organization NED – National Endowment for Democracy, USA.

The project "Contribution to IDP women’s integration in local society through their involvement monitoring of local self-government activities” (financed by the U.S. Embassy) is being completed.

Based on the budgets for 2011 of the self-managed city Kutaisi and municipalities of Tskhaltubo and Khoni there was made an analysis in the sphere of social protection, health-care and education taking into account gender aspects. There was prepared a report, made conclusions and elaborated recommendations. Reports were submitted to the local self-governments of the three cities.

On August 22 there is planned to held a Round table in the meeting hall of the local self-government of Kutaisi with participation of the wide spectrum of society to discuss the final report.

In August Round tables will be conducted in municipalities of Tskhaltubo and Khoni.

On April 14 at the office fund "Sukhumi" was held a Round-table meeting on "Institutional cooperation and the role of local government in solution of the problem of domestic violence". The meeting was attended by representatives of local government, teachers, psychologists, journalists, representatives of the Ombudsman's office, lawyers, an expert’s group of fund "Sukhumi", and beneficiaries.

Local government is usually out of the general context of social cooperation of public institutions in the fight against domestic violence. There is no awareness of the importance the role of local government in solution of the problems. The social programs of local governments do not reflect measures for the prevention of domestic violence, contribution to efficient operation of the law against violence.

"The law does not impose strict liabilities on local government, but the State - a stable institution - must always take care of this problem. If a small budget can justify the fact that it is impossible to provide assistance to victims of violence or to take effective measures for the prevention of violence, then what prevents the local government to have information, to know what the situation is around us, and to cooperate with NGOs working on these issues? - was mentioned at the Roundtable meeting.

"Economic instability is directly proportional to the degree of violence". "The government should try to create an institution of social workers staffed with qualified personnel".

The Roundtable meeting was productive. In addition to information sharing, there were provided many interesting advice and suggestions which are very helpful in terms of institutional cooperation.

The project is implemented with the support of the organization EED Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst.

What is gender, gender equality, how change of socio-political situation affected the family climate. These issues were discussed at the round table meeting organized on December 20 in the village of Khurcha (Zugdidi district). The theme of the Round table was "Gender roles and socio-cultural environment". The meeting was attended by teachers, school students, representatives of the health spectrum and women from Nabakevi, Khurcha and Koki.

 At the beginning of the meeting facilitator and experts provided attendees with information followed by an interesting discussion.

 There was expressed a view that "Gender stereotype -"woman is a weak creature" has been destroyed long ago in this region".

The meeting was very interesting and fruitful. According to the participants they always look forward to meeting with Fund "Sukhumi”.

The project is implemented with the support of the organization EED Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst.

- What is the impact of migration on young people? How do they live or what do teenagers feel whose mothers went abroad to earn money? These questions were discusses for 2 hours at the Round table meeting organized by the students of the School of Young Women-Leaders.

The meeting was attended by NGO representatives, students, schoolchildren and teachers. They noted that the number of people migrating is growing every year and this is due to the social environment in the country. According to the majority of the attendees, children especially need mothers who can not be replaced by anybody, so migration has a negative impact on their lives.

Some participants said that the State must take certain responsibility to work on the reasons of migration.

How young people allocate their free time, what activities are conducted in the city, whether funds for youth programs are considered in the local budget – such issues were discussed at the Round table meeting organized by the students of the School of Young Women-Leaders in the Women's Support Center in Khoni. The meeting was attended by the representatives from Khoni municipality City Hall and City Council, teachers, parents and pupils.

At the meeting there was mentioned that there is observed nihilism and lack of initiative among young people. Participants stressed that the major problem is non-attendance in schools. Representatives of the local self government acquainted participants with the information about youth programs: intellectual competitions, Olympiads. Therefore, it is necessary that young people have more initiatives and ideas that they could skillfully and effectively allocate their free time.

Students of the Young Women Leaders School held a Round table at the Women’s Support Center in Tskhaltubo.

- Youth Employment - there was a lively discussion of that topic. According to the common opinion of the participants the situation is complicated in Georgia, in terms of employment. Most of the young people living in Tskhaltubo, went to Tbilisi or abroad. The situation in other cities in Georgia is the same.

Attention was paid to professional staff. It was noted that, despite high taxes, institutions can not provide high-quality training for students, and this is the reason for hiring basically those young people who got education abroad.

The meeting was attended by the representatives of the EUMM.

The round table was highlighted by the television company "Rioni".

Round table of on the theme "Drug addiction, alcoholism, gambling - in the context of domestic violence" was carried out in Women's Support Center of Khoni. The meeting was attended by IDPs from Abkhazia, teachers, school students, journalists, representatives of the local self government.

 After the information provided by experts, there was held a discussion and identified interesting views: "environment plays a great role, only education is not enough"...

At the meeting there was fixed an opinion that youth should be informed about such important topics that they were aware of the danger they put themselves.