Tbilisi. On December6, the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy held the summary presentation as part of the project "Participation of the Civil Society in the Local Decision-Making Process". Within the project framework, to raise public awareness, the organization has delivered trainings to the local community organizations, media representatives and other citizens on the topics such as active citizenship/leadership, advocacy and monitoring of activities of the local self-government authorities. Initiative groups were set up from the trained citizens, which have monitored the local self-government  authorities. Further, the advocacy campaign was carried out, as a results of which several issues were resolved and taken into consideration.The project "Participation of the Civil Society in the Local Decision-Making Process" aimed at developing the skills of local community organizations, media and citizens in respect of monitoring the local self-government authorities and enhancing the transparency and responsibility of the self-government authorities. The project was implemented in 6 municipalities of the KvemoKartli, Samtskhe-Javakheti and ShidaKartli.

Source: ISFED