Samegrelo. "Transparency International - Georgia" has released video depicting the everyday problems of IDPs residing in the former district hospital located in Zugdidi. According to the organization, water is supplied to up to 50 families with limitations, and part of them does not have electricity. There are grave sanitary conditions in the hospital's yard. Up to 20 persons have special needs: some have mental disorders, while others suffer from disabilities. Source: the organization's page in the social network.

Samegrelo. Newly appointed Head of the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti Regional Administration of the Abkhazian Government in Exile Otar Gogokhia has met with NGOs working on IDP problems on March 14 in Zugdidi. The meeting was organized at the initiative of NGO "IDP Women for Their Own Rights". According to the Head of the organization Nona Ubilava, NGO sector must help the IDPs by providing the information and protecting their rights.

Samegrelo. The Strategy and International Relations Research Fund and the NGO "Imedi" (hope) have presented on February 25 in Zugdidi the results of study on the problems of the local population living along the administrative border of Abkhazia. Interviewing was carried out in 11 settlements located along the administrative border, and total of 500 persons were interviewed.

Samegrelo. NGO representatives have met with the Deputy Minister for IDPs from Occupied Territories and Refugees MamukaTsotniashvili in the Civic Engagement Center on February 8. Representatives of "IDP Women for Their Own Rights" and "IDP Union" have asked questions to the Deputy Minister on identifying alternative space for the IDPs and other issues. According to MamukaTsotniashvili, at the first stage 320 IDP families living in Zugdidi will receive residential spaces. NGO sector representatives operating in Zugdidi and MamukaTsotniashvili have agreed that similar meetings aimed at solving the problems of IDPs from Abkhazia will be held frequently.

Imereti. On September 14, as part of the project "Enhancing IDP Participation in the Context of Parliamentary Elections", the Heinrich Boll Stiftung's South Caucasus Regional Bureau has organized the public meeting with participation of the IDPs with the single-seat MP nominees running in the 2012 parliamentary elections. Purpose of the meeting was for the single-seat MP nominees to inform the IDPs about the parties' agendas. The meeting was held in Tskaltubo in the hall of the "Prometheus" Hotel.