Final days in Guria and Adjara

The final meetings at the Youth Empowerment Centers actively continue. The final days have already finished in three municipalities of Samegrelo region. Then the meetings were held in the municipalities of Guria and Adjara - Chokhatauri and Kobuleti. Members of the Gender Equality Councils, representatives of youth services also participated.

One part of the graduates made interesting presentations. The participants of the meetings mainly spoke about the achieved results. The five-month course was highly appreciated by teachers and parents. All participants received certificates, and the most active ones received the certificates of young trainers.

From the next month, the process of forming new groups in the municipalities will begin.

At the meeting, the participants were also informed about the practical guide/toolkit: "Preventing and responding to gender-based violence in war and post-war settings - experiences and recommendations of women's NGOs", which was developed by the WAVE Network in collaboration with its four WAVE members in 2022 by the support of the OSCE. The Toolkit describes best practices and the strategies employed by the women's NGOs to prevent and respond to gender-based violence in different phases of conflict.

• Strategies during Wartime and emergency response settings were shared by Ukrainian and Armenian partners Sexual Assault Crisis Center (Yerevan, Armenia), Centre “Women’s Perspectives” (Lviv, Ukraine);
• Strategies during Protracted conflict were described by the Women's Foundation "Sukhumi" (Kutaisi, Tbilisi, Georgia);
• Strategies during Post-war and long-term perspective were based on the experience of the Bosnia-Herzegovina partner. Foundation United Women Banja Luka (Banja Luka, Bosnia & Herzegovina)

(A practical guide is available here https://www.osce.org/secretariat/530695)

The project is implemented with the support of the organization Brot

 für die Welt - Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst (Germany)