Tbilisi. ‘Institute for Development of Freedom of Information’ (IDFI) published a research – ‘Regional Governor State Vehicles and Fuel Expenses: 2017-2018’. ‘Analysis of vehicles owned by regional governor administrations and related fuel consumption points to challenges related to rational and efficient use of resources. The high overall number of vehicles owned by governor administrations, prevalence of expensive luxury models, and high fuel expenses demonstrate a necessity for optimization and stricter oversight mechanisms. An additional serious concern is the practice of free of charge gifting of vehicles to governors by municipalities within the respective region. This practice raises questions about the proper use of municipal assets, contradicts the process of decentralization of governance and undermines the independence of local government. The prevalence of challenges identified in this document throughout the country points to the necessity of considering the option of establishing a centralized service for state-owned vehicles. It is also necessary to introduce technological systems for stricter monitoring of state-vehicle use and their fuel consumption. Information presented in this document was gathered by IDFI through freedom of information requests that were sent to 9 regional governor administrations, requesting public information about the state vehicles and fuel expense in 2017-2018’, – In this document is said. Read more  Source: The webpage of the organization

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LDA Georgia - Local Democracy Agency Georgia, hosted American volunteers of Peace Corps. At the meeting, Executive Director of LDA Georgia, Nino Khukhua talked with volunteers about the activities of the organization. She also presented the implemented and ongoing projects of our organization. Read more… Source: The webpage of the organization in a social network

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Tbilisi. On 21 May 2019, Public Defender Nino Lomjaria and the Deputies of the Public Defender met with local civil society representatives in the Telavi Center for Civic Engagement and received information about the human rights issues in the Kakheti region. ''The Public Defender also showed interest in the recent events developed in the Pankisi Gorge. It was noted that among other issues, the issue of construction of a public center remains unresolved, which is the only place for the population to gather, and needs allocation of finances'', is noted in the statement. Read more… Source: ombudsman.ge

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Tbilisi. On April 23, at the PITA Tbilisi Youth Center of the Ilia State University Iliauni, MDF made a presentation in regard to a Russian propaganda related study, carried out at regions densely populated by minorities, and conducted discussions. Read more… Source:The website of the organization in a social network

Adjara. On April 18, 2019, the Constitutional Court satisfied one more lawsuit of GYLA, which was related to management of a timeframe for appealing to a higher instance against a court decision. GYLA appealed to the Constitutional Court against a norm, according to which a deadline for appealing to a higher instance against a court decision starts not from the moment of handover of a motivation part of a decision to a party, but from the moment of announcement of a resolution part. Read more... Source:The website of the organization

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Imereti. Local Democracy Agency Georgia held a Regional Civil Society Forum in Kutaisi. The main goal of the forum was to attract donors and potential financiers and strengthen civil society in the Imereti region. Local NGOs, media, donor organizations, self-governments and youth (students) were invited to the forum. The Regional Civil Society Forum was organized by LDA Georgia within the project "Civil Society Initiative," which is implemented by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) by the Civil Society Institute (CSI), a training and consulting center (CTC), a strategic research and development centers, (CSRDG) and Education, Development and Employment Center (EDEC). Read more…  Source: The organization’s page

Tbilisi. ''Transparency International - Georgia'' publishes results of a public opinion survey. ''Use of power by public officials for their personal benefit is common in Georgia, while the Government does not respond to such cases respectively. At the same time, cases of petty corruption still remain extremely rare'', - is stated on the website of the organization. Read more… Source:www.transparency.ge

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Tbilisi. On 29 March, the national conference “Closer to People – Stronger Civil Society” was held in Tbilisi. The conference was organized by the ‘Civil Society Sustainability Initiative’ and the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum Georgian National Platform, and with the support of the European Union, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Government of Georgia. More than 250 representatives of civil society and various government agencies discussed the role of the civil society in implementing the reform agenda under the association agreement with the EU. The main focus of the conference was regional development. The conference was welcomed by the Prime-minister of Georgia, Mr. Mamuka Bakhtadze and the Deputy Head of the EU Delegation to Georgia, Mr. Carlo Natale. Parallel to the conference, more than 130 organizations from all over Georgia had an opportunity to exhibited their activities and promote their work. Ten regional journalists working in ten regions of Georgia were awarded special price for their professional support to local civil societies.

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Kvemo Kartli. "Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center” (EMC), on behalf of a local activist, sues Marneuli City Hall and City Assembly in court due to non-availability of translation resources in Azerbaijani language. "City Assembly and City Hall of Marneuli Municipality do not build translation resources related to releasing public information in the language understandable for minorities and, among them, do not provide enactment of a system that supplies citizens with translation of letters, applications, complaints, as well as responses of administrative bodies, public information and normative acts. In these circumstances, ethnically Azerbaijani citizens, who do not possess knowledge of the state language fluently, have to translate their applications and received responses at their own expense in order to obtain information regarding those basic rights, services and regulations, which ensure their participation in public life”, - is noted in the statement released by EMC. Read more… Source:The website of the organization

Georgia. On March 14-15, 2019, a three-day meeting of the Open Governance Permanent Council of the Parliament of Georgia and its consultative group was carried out. Chairmen of parliamentary committees, representatives of civil society and international organizations conducted a discussion regarding implementation of the 2018-2019 Action Plan of the Open Parliament and reviewed the strategy of the Parliament of Georgia on issues related to Sustainable Development Goals. At the end of the three-day meeting, on March 16, there was held a seminar for journalists, which was attended by 22 representatives of print, broadcast and online media. Members of the Open Governance Parliamentary Council presented achievements of Georgia in the field of open governance to journalists and answered their questions regarding obtained success and existing challenges. The event was carried out with the support of the European Union (EU), United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI). Read more… Source:https://idfi.ge

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