A workshop on the prevention of violence against women and/or domestic violence, protection and assistance to victims of violence was held for members of the Municipal Interdepartmental Commission of Vani City Hall

Participants discussed the obligations of each member, that are necessary for the commission to operate effectively. They discussed the strategies that will help to manage specific cases.

It was noted that the composition should be reviewed and members added for more activity. It was also mentioned that the commission should contribute to the prevention of facts of violence and timely assistance to victims.

The project is implemented with the support the Equality Fund (Canada)

Women mutual assistance groups have joined the international campaign "16 active days against gender-based violence ". This campaign empowers women and helps them find more supporters at the local level.

All groups, together with local governments, try to solve their problems. A psychologist from the Women Fund “Sukhumi” presented at several meetings and began working on difficult cases.

Group members talk openly about problems. The meetings were attended by representatives of the City Hall, social services and the gender council, who are ready to get involved in the advocacy process and help women achieve their goals.

The December meetings were distinguished by the fact that group members were awarded with certificates of gratitude for their trust and cooperation. This is a good motivation for them.

The project is implemented with the support the Equality Fund (Canada)

Fill out the questionnaire! - Such request appeared on our web page.

The introduction says:

Our website “Digital Resource Center for Violence Victims” - https://sosfsokhumi.ge/ has been operating for the second year.

The number of users is increasing every day.

This means taking into account visitors’ requests for the most interesting, important information.

You can help us improve the site!

Dozens of people have already filled out a questionnaire, which contains following questions: how important such an information platform is, how actively people use the site, and whether the information posted is useful for women victims/potential victims of domestic violence.

What questions are of great interest? This question is followed by 8 possible answers representing the categories of the website: services of central/local authorities and NGOs, legal mechanisms/laws, links to hotlines and applications, success stories, statistics, map of risk indicators.

In addition, we are interested in what other information readers want to receive and how easy it is to find the necessary information on the site.

Analysis of the received responses will help to improve the site.

The project is implemented with the support the Equality Fund (Canada)

Map of the domestic violence risk indicator – this category is already used on our website https://sosfsokhumi.ge.

There are official statistics and data of the research of the Women Fund “Sukhumi”. In order to view the statistics of a particular region, you should select the corresponding unit on the map - Imereti, Samegrelo, Guria and Adjara.

According to the regions, anyone can find out statistics on complaints about domestic violence, reports received regarding cases of violence, as well as the level of employment or migration and statistics on families who receive a living wage.

Statistics can be viewed for individual municipalities of the region. Three municipalities are represented in Samegrelo: Senaki, Zugdidi and Tsalenjikha, in Imereti there are five: Kutaisi, Tskaltubo, Khoni, Samtredia and Bagdati, in Guria and Adjara data are recorded for one municipality: Chokhatauri and Kobuleti.

As we learned from feedback from Internet users, the risk map provides the necessary information to readers working on the problem, as well as to people who live in different municipalities.

The project is implemented with the support the Equality Fund (Canada)

Women’s mutual assistance groups actively cooperate with local governments, and in all ten municipalities they have already started to advocate the problems of group members.

Women face a number of problems; especially these are the violence victim women. Group members feel strong support from the social agency, the City Hall and the City Council. This helps in advocacy and problem solution.

In November, project assistant Nino Chabukiani conducted offline and online meetings, and some of them were conducted by group leaders.

Three-month courses of digital literacy were held in Terjola, Bagdati and Kobuleti. The group members learned a lot of useful things from the trainer Kristi Kutateladze. In order to actively use theoretical knowledge in practice, several women (who did not have phones) were given mobile phones. According to them, this is serious support.

The project is implemented with the support the Equality Fund (Canada)

A workshop on prevention of violence against women and/or domestic violence, protection and assistance to victims of violence, for members of the Municipal Interdepartmental Commission was held in Vani.

Participants reviewed strategies, which will help to solve specific cases. We discussed the obligations of each member of the commission to operate effectively.

During the workshop it was noted that the commission should contribute to the prevention of violence and timely assistance to victims. It is necessary to review the composition and add members so that the commission can work more actively and achieve more results.

 

The project is implemented with the support the Equality Fund (Canada)

A workshop for members of Senaki City Hall Interdepartmental Commission of the Municipality on the Prevention of Violence against Women and/or Domestic violence, Protection and Assistance to Victims of Violence was held.

During the meeting, a dialogue was held on the practical aspects of the commission work, several acute cases were discussed and a case management strategy was drawn up.

According to the participants, the commission has great potential for preventing violence against women/domestic violence, as well as for providing victims with timely and adequate assistance. This is due to the fact that this mechanism is represented by intersectoral groups; resources are joined and coordinated.

The project is implemented with the support the Equality Fund (Canada)

Handing over the phone is considered as assistance in our project, because its absence often creates many problems.

Handing over a phone helps to empower women (using the phone they can find information about vacancies or daily work), protection and assistance to victims of violence using the SOS button, communication according to various needs.

In short, necessity of phone is obvious today. That is why our organization distributes the phones according to certain criteria. Over the past three months, 6 women have received phones: in Tskaltubo, Chokhatauri, Kobuleti, Samtredia and Terjola (two women received them here).

In addition, three of these six women spent two weeks in our rehabilitation center and received comprehensive support.

The project is implemented with the support of the Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights

Initiative, active mutual support groups were created in 10 municipalities.

Project assistant met group members in Tskaltubo, Chokhatauri, Zugdidi (village Khurcha) and Vani municipalities, and held an online meeting with the Bagdati group.

Case related to early marriage was discussed in Tskaltubo, in Chokhatauri they talked about the problems of rural women. Bagdati group talked about more effective assistance to violence victims, and in Khurcha, the active participation of local government was emphasized. Psychologist held an ordinary meeting with Vani women group.

other five municipalities - Senaki, Tsalenjikha, Samtredia, Terjola and Kobuleti - the group leaders held meetings themselves. Problems were identified everywhere (payment of alimony, housing or property cases), and advocacy is carried out in cooperation with local government. Group members want their work and results to be an example for other women.

The project is implemented with the support the Equality Fund (Canada)

Active summer

Mutual support groups try to identify problems in all municipalities. Groups in Bagdati, Kobuleti, Chokhatauri, Samtredia identified several problems and started to advocate them.

Senaki women's mutual support group is actively working on two cases. The members of the group are women living not only in the city, but also in villages.

The motivated groups of Vani and Terjola, give an example for others on how to solve their own problems.

Tskaltubo mutual support group is the only group composed by IDP women. Members of the group have identified three problems and work with local government to resolve them.

The summer was very active...

The project is implemented with the support the Equality Fund (Canada)

Social Networks