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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A Roundtable Meeting in Zestaponi on Gender Mainstreaming Issues

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The Fund "Sukhumi" held a roundtable meeting in Zestaponi Municipality on the topic of “the implementation of gender approaches in local politics (Gender Mainstreaming)”. Together with the representatives of the local municipality and civil groups, the representatives of the Kharagauli and Baghdati Municipalities also attended the meeting.

The principles of the manual for gender strategies at the local level, developed by the Fund "Sukhumi" and four main areas - what issues should be reflected in local political strategy and action plans, and who is the manual for - have been introduced during the meeting.

Interesting discussions were held during the roundtable meeting on gender policy and practice, experiences and challenges in municipalities. Participants talked about the needs identified in terms of gender education of personnel, gender budgeting, and needs assessment methodology and stressed the necessity of cooperation with qualified non-governmental sector. The outlines of the future work have been identified. Particular recommendations have been discussed, which, in the opinion of the participants, would necessarily affect the condition of women, youth and other groups.

The meeting was held as part of the project “Learning from the experience of Visegrad Four 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