Tbilisi. The executive director of the Public Organization "Citizen” issues a statement in social network on behalf of the organization. Nikoloz Chkhetiani responds to a comment made by a guest of one TV program aired on July 13. For the full text Source:Organization's page in the social network   

Tbilisi. Internews Georgia released a statement. "Internews-Georgia Project Media.ge temporarily, until September 2014, suspends translation of the Georgian-language content into English and Russian languages and its circulation, due to which the Organization apologizes to the users of the web-portal. Only short English or Russian materials will be published. Georgian-language version of the web-portal will continue operation".  Source: media.ge

Samegrelo. On July 17 in Association "Atinati”, Foundation "Partnership for Road Safety" and Youth Centre "Ortus” held a presentation and discussion about civil monitoring project of air quality in Zugdidi. The goal of the meeting was to develop safe, clean, affordable and green transport and promotional support of living healthy way in public. Within the project framework air quality measuring sensors were installed in different regions of Georgia, among them in Zugdidi.  Here you can see obtained results: aqe.elva.org You can also see air quality sensors of Georgia in the world’s map: airqualityegg.com Source: Organization "Friendly Roads” web-site in social network 

Tbilisi. On July 17 a press-release of Tamar Iveri was held in "Identoba”. As remarked in the organization "Identoba” web-site a charity concert will be held with Tamar Iveri’s participation on October 11, Coming Out International Day; the concert will be dedicated against all kind of discriminations in Georgia.  For the full text Source: identoba.com   

Kakheti. On July 16 the exhibition was open andthemovie show "Lost History, Memory about Repressed Women” was held in Sighnagi Museum. The exhibition presented histories of repressed women in 20-40s of XX century; a documental film, "Vividly Told Stories - Memory about Repressed Women” was prepared on base of the oral histories and interviews, recorded by the agency of the Soviet Past Research Laboratory within the mentioned project framework.In 2012, the Soviet Past Research Laboratory implemented the project – "Lost History, Memory about Repressed Women” with financial support of International Cooperation Institute of the German Association of Public Universities (DVV International). The project includes research on repressed women’s histories and introducing them to wide public. 

Tbilisi. "Transparency International Georgia” publicized Annual Report 2013. The document describes activities and projects implemented by the organization in 2013. Annual Report Source: transparency.ge 

Tbilisi. On July 11, the forum titled "Advocacy of Persons with Disabilities in the Business Sector Employment" was held in the Conference Hall of National Parliamentary Library of Georgia. The event was held by initiative of "Union of People with different skills," and with support of Economic Research and Consulting Center of Young analysts and scientists hall "doctrine". Source: Organization's page in the social network

Tbilisi. The exhibition "Personal Feast Table” is being organized with support of the Mondriaan Fund and the South-Regional Bureau of the Heinrich Boll Foundation. Installations and video materials presented at the exhibition were prepared based on interviews recorded with women victims of domestic violence. In addition, at the initiative of members of the self-aid group "Can You Hear Women’s Voices?”, the hand-made items created by them that illustrate their life experiences are also exhibited.The exhibition will be open in the galley Nectar until July 24. In the fall the exhibition will travel to Batumi and Telavi. For the full text. Source: the page of "50 Women from Georgia” in the social network.

Imereti. Representatives of CSO "People in Need” and the Head of the Czech Development Agency have met with representatives of the Imereti Regional Administration.The meeting aimed to discuss projects that are being implemented in the Imereti Region, and in particular focused on the development of agricultural sector, as well as the assistance of persons with disabilities and socially vulnerable populations. "It is planned to implement numerous grant projects in the Imereti Region, and a part of them is already launched and will continue until 2017,” – Salome Iobidze, Vice-Governor of Imereti has noted.

Web-page fundsforngos published A List of Foundations that Provide Small Grants to NGOs. Web-page

Imereti. Representatives of the Kutaisi Bureau of the NATO and EU Information Center have met with students and schoolchildren in the Kutaisi Civic Engagement Center. Meeting participants have discussed the EU history, European values and Georgia’s European future. Emphasis was made on the importance of the Association Agreement. In the end, Toma Chagelishvili’s film "Travelling in the Europe” was shown. Source: the organization's page in the social network.

Tbilisi. The Georgian Red Cross Society has organized the first aid "street event” at the Turtle Lake. The event aimed to raise people’s knowledge on the first aid and popularize the Red Cross Society as the first aid provider.During the event, Red Cross volunteers were distributing education-information leaflets in the Turtle Lake territory. In addition, the Society’s volunteers have delivered training in the first aid. Source: the organization's page in the social network.

Adjara. On the 10th of July Georgia’s Reforms Associates will host a round table event in "Hotel Sheraton Batumi”. The event is organized in close collaboration with the Office of the State Minister of Georgia on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration and will take place along with the 11th international conference "Georgia’s European Way”. The main topics of the round table event concern the European Integration issues. Visegrad (Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia) and Eastern Partnership (Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus) countries will share their experiences with Georgia. The event is organized with the financial support of International Visegrad Fund, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Czech Republic, Open Society Georgia Foundation (the latter one is within the framework of the USAID funded Advancing National Integration Project implemented by UNAG). For the full text Source: the organization's page in the social network

As part of the project "Millennium Development Goals", the UN has developed infographics, with which the organization has visually displayed the achieved results and future plans. Infographics. Source: www.un.org

Tbilisi. The Institute for the Development of Freedom of Information has published a blog post on Georgia's index in the UN's 2014 E-Governance survey. "Georgia has improved the e-governance development index by 0.4 points, following which it moved to 56th place among 193 states. ... Along with other positive changes, the improvement of telecommunication infrastructure component and online publication of public information has largely contributed to the growth of the index," says the blog post. For the full text. Source: idfi.ge

Tbilisi. The Institute for the Development of Freedom of Information has released the database of persons responsible for securing access to public information in public institutions and proactive publication. For the full text. Source: idfi.ge

Kakheti. In the frameworks of the IVF funded project : "Learning by doing – practice-oriented V4 support for strengthening civil society in the Caucasus" Spin Up workshop for organizational development was held in Patardzeuli, Georgia. 5 day long training was attended by non governmental organization representatives from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Trainers from Partners Poland Foundation, Poland and DemNet , Hungary delivered the trainings with the special focuses on the topics: Strategic Planning, Project management, Communication and Stakeholder Analysis.Spin up workshop was the first activity of the project, On the next stage project participants are going to develop mini project ideas which will be given a small grants. Source: civitas.ge

Tbilisi. The intellectual club "Friends of a Book" functioning with the movement "Davitianni" has launched a game in the social network - "Summer and a Book". Any interested person of any age can play the game. A participant is informing the friends through a short video in the social network about a book that s/he is reading. A competition will be also held to reveal best videos under different nominations. For the full text. Source: the organization's page in the social network

Tbilisi. Georgian Young Lawyers' Association released "Cases Successfully Litigated in June". For the full text Source: gyla.ge

Tbilisi. Institute for Development of Freedom of Information released a statement. "In her statement, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maia Panjikidze alleged IDFI in misinterpretation of data obtained from the Ministry and dishonesty. Minister also questioned the expediency of providing the public information in general for the institute. ...Recently published data of the business trip and roaming costs of the Ministries in 2013 depicts the very same data that we had obtained from the Ministry; furthermore, references had been made that the given sum was not the expense of the Minister, but instead of the whole delegation, headed by the Minister, with strong emphases on the specific field of work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We would like to stress that the information has been published in the same form as we received it from the Ministry". For the full text Source: idfi.ge

Tbilisi. European Union Delegation to Georgia published a notification to grant beneficiaries with an ongoing contract. For the full  text Source: eeas.europa.eu

Tbilisi. A new public service reform concept, which was developed with IDFI’s active involvement, has been presented. Public service reform aims to develop a transparent public system. For the full text Source: idfi.ge