Organisation’s activity:

* Woman and gender equality * Woman and peacebuilding * Woman and non-violent society * Work with youth

Who we are:

We are a group of women- internally displaced people (IDPs) who come together to establish a women’s non-governmental organisation in Kutaisi, Western Georgia in October, 1997. Our group was created after the Georgian population had to flee Abkhazia as a result of the armed conflict in 1992-1993.

Our organisational mission:

Development of women’s activity through educational, legal, economic, social, cultural activities to increase women’s role in building a democratic society in Georgia, in the peaceful resolution of the conflict in Abkhazia, and achieving economic independence
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TV program on air of the TV company “Rioni”

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On the 5th of July Fund “Sukhumi” organized live broadcast on the topic “Gender mainstreaming in local municipalities” in the TV company “Rioni”.

- How Gender Equality Councils are formed, which challenges exist, and what experience Fund “Sukhumi” offers – these issues were focused during the program.

The project is implemented with the support of the Visegrad Fund and the Kingdom of the Netherlands

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A regular TV program on the topic “Municipal Gender Equality Councils, as a perspective for socially balanced policy” was transmitted on air of TV company “Rioni”.

TV stories transmitted during the program told about the work of Fund “Sukhumi” with Gender Equality Councils of Imereti and Guria. The conversation was about Gender equality Action Plan, gender budget, gender statistic, and the essence of gender researches.

Guests of the program – members of Khoni Gender Equality Council shared their plans for future activity. There was voiced a civic initiative regarding a sensitive topic of migration which has negative influence on women.

The program was transmitted in the frames of the project “Learning from the experience of Visegrad 4 to advocate for equal, inclusive and democratic local governance".

The project is implemented with the support of the Visegrad Fund and the Kingdom of the Netherlands
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Article “Gender equality and gender mainstreaming in local government, Hungary case” is published in the newspaper “Guria news”. The author of the article is Ekaterina Gamakharia, Fund “Sukhumi” representative, an expert in women’s rights issues. This is a brief overview of an analytical work of Eniko Pap, a representative of the Hungarian NGO “Women’s lobby”. The article was written in the frames of the project “Learning from the experience of Visegrad 4 to advocate for equal, inclusive and democratic local governance" on request of Fund “Sukhumi”.

The project is implemented with the support of the Visegrad Fund and the Kingdom of the Netherlands

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June 30. 15:15. Program on air of radio “Rioni”.

Topic: Gender mainstreaming in local government.

Guests of the program: experts Meri Gelashvili and Nanuli Ramishvili

They told about the work of Fund “Sukhumi” on gender mainstreaming, importance of international experience, necessity of establishing Gender Equality Council and elaboration of a strategic plan for the future. The meeting was held in the frames of the project “Learning from the experience of Visegrad 4 to advocate for equal, inclusive and democratic local governance".

The project is implemented with the support of the Visegrad Fund and the Kingdom of the Netherlands

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