Imereti. The Education Development and Employment Center (EDEC) published the "Textbook about Volunteering" within the Georgian Civil Society Development Initiative project.

The textbook is intended for a wide audience, including young people, teachers, civil society organizations, the private sector, and the people who want to learn more about volunteering.

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Source: Jobs.ge

Tbilisi. Human Rights Center evaluates activities of a new department of the Prosecutor’s Office . The Human Rights Center has published an analytical document: “Vague perspectives on restoring justice – Evaluation of activities of a department on the investigation of the crime committed in the process of legal proceeding at the Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia”.

The document of the Human Rights Center contains a review of cases of former political prisoners and other affected, which are part of case management of the organization and on which the new department of the Prosecutor’s Office, in turn, has been working for years: so-called Kintsvisi case, the case of Vakhtang Maisaia, the case of Davit Adeishvili and others.

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Source: The website of the organization

USAID is partnering with farmers across Georgia to strengthen their post-harvest management, the key to the country’s efforts to build a more modern and profitable agriculture sector. 

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Source: The page in the social network

Tbilisi. The Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA) publishes a report on a study: Forced marriage - legislation and practice.

“The study has revealed that in Georgia, victims of forced marriage are women. The problem is especially acute in the Kvemo Kartli region. This is where investigations into forced marriage related issues are most frequently launched. By introducing a special norm on forced marriage into the Criminal Code and qualifying it as a criminal offence, the requirement of the Istanbul Convention has been met. However, conducting preventive activities related to this issue, carrying out effective awareness-raising works within society and providing result-oriented response to already occurred facts remain to be problematic”, - is stated on the website of the organization.

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Source: gyla.ge

Tbilisi. Take a look at the Presentation of an interim alternative monitoring report on the implementation of the Public Administration Reform Action Plan for 2019-2020. 

On December 23, the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) together with the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA) presented results of an alternative monitoring report on the implementation of the Public Administration Reform Action Plan (PAR) for the first six months of 2020.

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Source: idfi.ge

Tbilisi. EMC believes that the Short-term and long-term effects of the second wave of anti-crisis programs raise questions.

According to the opinion at the Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center (EMC), coverage of new anti-crisis programs and their long-term impact, including how new credit commitments are going to be distributed to future expenditures of the budget, raise a lot of questions.

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Source: emc.org.ge