Imereti. Local Democracy Agency Georgia (LDA Georgia) is implementing the project "Increasing the Quality of Citizen Involvement in Local Self-Government" in eleven (11) municipalities of Imereti region (Baghdati, Zestaponi, Samtredia, Vani, Khoni, Tskaltubo, Sachkhere, Chiatura, Kharagauli, Terjola, Tkibuli). Within the framework of the project, training was conducted with the members of the Civic Advisory Council of the Mayor of Kharagauli Municipality. Read more… Source: The organization’s page in the social network

Tbilisi. The Dean of the Department of Social and Political Sciences of Tbilisi State University (TSU) considered the appeal of the Public Defender's Office and replaced homophobic literature with other textbooks.  The Public Defender’s Office, on the basis of the application of the Equality Movement, studied the mandatory literature of the elective discipline of political culture of the Department of Social and Political Sciences. The study revealed that the educational material contained homophobic content. The Public Defender’s Office appealed to the administration of the department and as a result of constructive cooperation with the Dean, the discriminatory educational material was removed from the mandatory literature. Read more… Source: ombudsman.ge

Tbilisi. The EU and UNDP helped Georgian Parliament create a textbook for schoolchildren, offering an entertaining way to learn about parliament, parliamentary tradition, and citizen engagement in decision-making. Next year, it will be piloted in 50 public schools in Tbilisi and eastern Georgia. On 22 and 23 May, public school teachers took a training course, designed to help them make full use of a new textbook and learn about civic education methodology. Read more… Source: The organization’s page on the social network

Tbilisi. Are you ready to challenge your knowledge?  Take this quiz and share your results with us in the comments…  Source: The EU’s page on the social network

Tbilisi. Parents of children with disabilities play many roles in a child’s life. To function effectively in all of these roles, parents need help, and a place to talk to others who have similar life experiences. With this in mind, MAC Georgia and მშობლის სკივრი • Mshoblis Skivri are creating a new kind of ‘community’ for parents of children with cerebral palsy.  The parent’s community group will meet online one evening every two weeks and will consist of a small number of parents with the goal of sharing experiences and information and supporting one another in everyday challenges. The group is only open to parents who have a child with cerebral palsy. If you are a parent of a person with cerebral palsy, have access on the internet and time to join once every two weeks, please follow the link and register… The deadline is May 18. We hope to begin our first group meeting before the end of May 2021. Read more… Source: The organization’s page on the social network

Tbilisi. On 25th of May Business and Technology University (BTU) will host a virtual employment forum – FEMTECH. “Forum aims to provide employment opportunities to women and girls, who have graduated BTU Coding School. In this way the University tries to support the graduates with employment opportunities in ICT sector. BTU is one of the signatories of the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) and has already launched a number of interesting initiatives to empower women and girls”. Read more… To register for the forum, please visit the following link… Source: UN Women Georgia’s page on the social network

Tbilisi. Last week, the Rondeli Foundation and OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities successfully completed the second part of the training course "Enhancing National Minority Agenda". “Within the framework of the program cohort of national minorities of Georgia gained theoretical and practical knowledge on policy analysis, advocacy and lobbying, women's participation, research methods, and disinformation. Participants also met with the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia representatives, the Office of the Ombudsman, the Central Election Commission, and the OSCE HCNM”. Read more… Source: The organization’s page on the social network

Shida Kartli. April 23 organized by CENN and the Society Biliki, the EU-supported rural innovation knowledge hub in Gori has been launched. “The Innovative Knowledge Hub is a youth workspace that will be accessible to young people living in Shida Kartli region aiming to empower young people at the local level and promote their social and green entrepreneurship development”. Find out more… Source: eeas.europa.eu

Samegrelo. The Georgia Red Cross Youth and Volunteering Development department organized “ My First Job” workshop. The workshop was led by the Georgia Red Cross Society Zugdidi branch volunteer trainer Romeo Malazonia. He shared useful tips about how to look for vacancies, how to write CV/Motivational letter, communication with potential employers, tips for successful interview and etc. Read more… Source: The Red Cross Society Page on the Social Network

Tbilisi. GCSD conducted online trainings on prevention of violent extremism and radicalisation. “This is the first PCVE curriculum in Georgian which reflects and was adapted to the Georgian context. The curriculum includes "Countering Violent Extremism: An Introductory Guide to Concepts, Programming and, Best Practices" a trainer's guide, thematic videos, presentations and supporting Exercises. The project is supported by Hedayah Center in the framework of STRIVE Global Program funded by the EU. The training material was translated and adapted for the local context by the GCSD. For more please, follow the link... Source: gcsd.org.ge

Kakheti. In Tsnori, a USAID-supported knowledge café needed fundraising to build a new building. ”Traditional methods did not appear sufficient. In March, in order to raise funds, USAID supported the café in launching Bootcamp - a new experiment for Georgian students. What was the challenge? Young people had 10 days to gain GEL 200 or 300 from GEL 100. 29 teams, participating in the first round, managed to raise money through both selling goods and donations. 20 teams succeeded to move to the second round, with the help of coaching, provided by a startup entrepreneur, they handled to double or triple GEL 200. In the end, these young entrepreneurs collected GEL 35 387 for the knowledge café and, at the same time, improved their business skills”. Read more... Source: The website of the organization on a social network

Tbilisi. Georgian Center for Strategy and Development (GCSD) presents a study: “Use of artificial intelligence while confronting information operations carried out against Georgia”. Visit the link to find full version of the study... “...Using artificial intelligence, fact-checking organizations can combat disinformation and fake news more effectively, mark messages and respond accordingly. Regardless of its perspective, artificial intelligence should not be perceived as a universal way of solving a problem, like other techniques, artificial intelligence also raises ethical and legal questions”... Source: The website of the organization on a social network

Guria. Through the joint efforts of the Human Rights Secretariat of the Administration of the Government of Georgia, the UNFPA Georgia Country Office and the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, Women’s History Month was celebrated in the municipalities of Chokhatauri, Ozurgeti and Lanchkhuti, in cooperation with the Office of the Governor of Guria, with the support of the Office of the UN Resident Coordinator in Georgia and the European Union. Within the framework of the events, there was a meeting held between Giorgi Sakhokia, Governor of Guria, and Lela Bakradze, Head of the UNFPA Georgia Country Office, to discuss future cooperation in the field of human rights, promotion of gender equality and youth empowerment. Read more… Source: georgia.unfpa.org

Tbilisi. On February 22-25, 2021, the Public Defender’s Office monitored 21 public schools of Tbilisi,[1] in order to check the readiness of educational institutions for the educational process in the context of the pandemic and to identify the safety needs. “The monitoring revealed a lot of challenges, the prevention and elimination of which is important for ensuring the safety of the educational process. It should be noted that the inspected schools largely meet the necessary conditions for the virus prevention, however, some problems were identified with sanitation-hygiene, infrastructure, access to drinking water, toilet arrangement and distance protection. In some of the inspected schools it is necessary to put the sanitary system and infrastructure in order so that to make it possible to properly observe the hygienic norms”. Read more… Source: ombudsman.ge

Tbilisi. An online training course has been developed on sexual and reproductive health and rights of women with psychosocial needs through cooperation between the Public Defender of Georgia, UNFPA Georgia Office and Tbilisi State Medical University. “The innovative course will help certified doctors working in the field of obstetrics-gynecology and psychiatry deepen their knowledge in the direction of health management of women with psychosocial needs, their rights and the commitments undertaken by the State”. Read more… Source: www.ombudsman.ge

Tbilisi. HumanDoc Foundation, in collaboration with partner organizations: “Kartlosi” – Bridge of Friendship, Association “Merkuri” and Cultural-Humanitarian Fund “Sukhumi”, has released a publication: “Guide for teachers on violence against children”. An electronic version of the publication is available here... Read more… Source: The website of the organization in a social network

Tbilisi. UNDP invites women and girls from Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Imereti and Shida Kartli regions to join training courses in graphic design and web coding. Training is delivered by the UNDP's partner organization GeoLab • ჯეოლაბი.  Deadline for applications: 12 March 2021;  Registrations forms: Graphic design... Coding... Source: The organization’s page on the social network

Tbilisi. On February 15, the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) conducted an online training for civil servants on the use of artificial intelligence systems in the public sector. The training aimed to provide theoretical and practical information to civil servants about international standards of the use of artificial intelligence systems, and present the results and revealed challenges of the analysis on the practice of using such systems in Georgia. Read more… Source: idfi.ge

Tbilisi. CENN, Mercy Corps and ABCO Georgia, with the support of the European Union, are hosting a joint 2-day intensive online workshop for young people on "Social Entrepreneurship and Financial Planning" as part of the EU4Youth program. Those wishing to participate in the online workshop should register before 18:00 on February 21 at the following link… Source: The organization’s page on the social network

Tbilisi. The Educational Certification Program in Fighting Corruption was started in June, 2019 and is implemented by the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) for the third year in a row. „The Program is implemented in cooperation with Ilia State University. The first phase of the Program consisted of eight professional modules. The participants who were passed the modules successfully received certificates. Up to 500 applicants expressed their willingness to participate in the Program out of which 32 participants were selected for the Program. Out of the initial 32 participants (which were selected among almost 500 candidates), 19 participants received the final certificates. It is noteworthy that the final certificates are awarded to the candidates who have passed at least six modules. Out of 19 participants, 5 participants received certificates for graduating from all eight modules. Among these five – four are female, and one is male. Out of 19 participants – 16 are female, and 3 are male”, is noted in the statement. Read more… Source: idfi.ge

Tbilisi. An organization “Partnership for Human Rights” (PHR) appealed to the Tbilisi City Court against the Ministry of Education demanding to urge the Ministry to develop an effective plan and implement it in order to ensure that children with disabilities and special educational needs have their rights to life, health, safety, and education protected upon returning to school on February 15. “There is increased danger that students with disabilities and special educational needs may have their rights to life, health, education and safety violated due to unorganized and threatening return to schools on February 15, 2021. We consider that passivity of the Ministry of Education cannot be replaced with just recommendations of the Ministry of Health. While at this stage, current state of schools does not allow them to manage the pandemic effectively due to different financial and human resources”. Read more… Source: phr.ge

Imereti. Local Democracy Agency (LDA) is happy to announce a start of series of practical trainings "Capacity building workshops for youth from small towns and rural areas on the development of business ideas" in #AZ, #UA, #GE. Online trainings will help you to find yourself in a business world. Experts from PL, IT, FR will prepare interesting topics. Youth could work in smaller groups to better understand in be involved. The deadline for registration is February 15, 2021.  Follow the registration link... Read more… Source: The organization’s page on the social network