Svaneti. The Center for Strategic Research and Development of Georgia has organized a training in "Local self-government and monitoring methods" on October30-31 in Mestia and on November 1-2 in Latali. Up to 40 activists of the Mestia and Latali communities have attended the training. Discussed at the meeting were the structure and competences of local self-government, participation forms in the decision-making process, as well as the budgetary cycle of local self-government and the stages of budget monitoring. The training for the community organizations was organized as part of the EU-funded project "Promoting Civil Society in Zemo Svaneti and Its Involvement in Local Self-Government".