The meeting of members of the IDP women working group with members of the Gender Equality Council of Kutaisi Municipality was attended by both members of the City Council and City Hall.

Members of the working group presented the problems existing in the target IDP communities and discussed the ways of their solution together with representatives of self-government.

The Gender Equality Council expressed its support. Letters will be prepared and sent to the relevant services of the City Hall.

“You are doing important work, in frames of our competence we will support active women in order to eliminate existing problems”, said Deputy Mayor Tamar Dakhundaridze.

The project is implemented with the support of  USAID local governance program

 In order to exchange and share information and discuss common problems, exchange meetings were held between women initiative groups. The women's group of Tskaltubo visited the women initiative group of Senaki. The participants got acquainted with each other better, discussed the needs and problems of women. According to their assessment, the mentioned format is important and interesting in terms of mutual experience sharing. It is an interesting phase in youth groups. Senaki group works on a project idea. The young people prepared two projects, which they will present to the competition commission.

Members of Khoni women's initiative groups got acquainted with the results of the research, which was aimed at "assessing the quality of human security" envisaging gender aspects, and got acquainted with the conclusions and recommendations, which they will try to advocate in cooperation with the local government. Khoni Youth Club discussed two project ideas developed within the grant competition. Activities to be implemented within the project were defined at the meeting. In the near future, the youth club will start implementing a project funded by the USAID grant competition and various types of activities. The meeting was hosted by Khoni public school N3.

A workshop on the topic: "Prevention of domestic violence and work on the problem" was held with a women's group in Tskaltubo. The participants talked about the services that exist in terms of victim assistance and support. Thematic information sheets were distributed to the women. The members of the youth group discussed project ideas. Both groups have already prepared projects that will be submitted to the competition commission.

The members of the women initiative group of the village Pakhulani held another meeting. The conversation touched on the problems and needs of women and the importance of sharing the experiences of the initiative groups in different municipalities. During the discussion, it became clear that the problems are identical everywhere. The members of the group discussed future plans, noting that such meetings are important in the process of identifying problems and finding ways to solve them.

In frames of exchange meeting format, Kutaisi women initiative group was visited by the members of Khoni. The aim of the meeting was to get to know the members of the group, bring them closer, share information and experience. Women spoke about the problems and needs they advocated. The mentioned format was positively evaluated by the participants. The members of Kutaisi Youth Club discussed two project ideas developed in frames of the grant competition. They got acquainted with the information about the peace initiatives and determined the activities to be implemented within the framework of the project. New members joined the youth club. In the near future, they will start implementing the project and various types of activities financed within the framework of the USAID grant competition. The meeting was hosted by Public School No. 6 of Abkhazia named after Zhuli Shartava.

A joint meeting of Georgian and Abkhazian partners was held in Istanbul on March 19-23 within the framework of the project: "Gender Aspects of Human Security, Risks, Mitigation strategies". The meeting of the Georgian and Abkhazian women groups began with the presentation of action plans and the introduction of the agenda. The women shared the situational analysis in their regions and exchanged information about the challenges and problems of everyday life. According to the results of the activities, group work was held in the form of the monitoring report in 2024. The main challenges were defined, the issues of human security for women, assessment and risk management were discussed. They talked about what risk is and what we do to eliminate it, what is the difference between risk, danger and coercion. The work was fruitful and productive. During the meeting, reduction of all possible and existing risks in terms of women's work was discussed.

The youth initiative group of the village Koki - Zugdidi municipality worked on refining the goals and objectives of the project proposal. They learned to work on the project and turn the idea into a project at the training held in Kutaisi. As a result, working versions of two projects were prepared, which will be presented to the commission. The women initiative group conducted a research on the topic "Assessment of the quality of human security and gender needs of the population in Zugdidi municipality". They continue to work in direction of advocacy.

The members of Didinedzi women initiative group discussed women's needs and existing problems during exchange meetings. Such a format, according to the participants, was important for sharing experience and for mutual cooperation. The members of Didinedzi youth group worked on the preparation of projects, which is a step forward in the process of submitting the works to the competition commission.

Domestic violence against women is a problem that is directly connected to security risks and affects the functioning of each sector/sphere of society. Elaboration of correct indicators will ensure early identification of cases of violence and prevention of violence. - This is stated in the introduction of new publication.

Title of the publication: “Risk indicators of domestic violence against women (review of official statistics).” Challenges, recommendations and an overview of official statistics are presented here. This publication is placed on the web-page https://sosfsokhumi.ge/

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