Tbilisi. On May 7 the Public Defender of Georgia presented a monitoring report on the implementation of the Action Plan 2015-2016 of the State Strategy for Civic Equality and Integration.

When assessing the effectiveness of the programs implemented and the policy pursued by the state in the field of civic integration and protection of the rights of ethnic minorities, the Council of National Minorities under the Public Defender found that information provided to national minorities about state services and efforts of state agencies was insufficient. It is necessary to promote participation of national minorities in the decision-making process and increase their representation, ratify the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages and promote the participation of women of national minorities in civil and political processes. Access to quality, preschool, higher or vocational education, supply of multilingual textbooks, training and retraining of teachers and their replacement with new staff, represent challenges in the regions populated by national minorities; the rate of teachers’ failure in qualification tests is high at schools of minority languages.

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