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
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".
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
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
A TV program about the situation related to introduction of gender policy at local level was broadcasted on live of TV "Rioni".
A chairperson of Tskhaltubo Municipality Council (Sakrebulo), secretary of the Gender Equality Council of Tskhaltubo Municipality, members of Kutaisi Gender Equality Council, and representatives of society participated in the program. Attendees spoke about the work organized by Fund “Sukhumi in terms of gender studies, elaboration of a Strategic Guidance on local gender policy, the consultative service of the Gender Equality Councils of Municipalities, the process of an Action Plan development. Representatives of Tskhaltubo and Kutaisi Gender Equality Councils talked about gender programs of municipalities and the practice of cooperation with a qualified non-governmental sector.
A TV story that was shown during the program, described meetings in the municipalities of Tskhaltubo and Lanchkhuti, as well as an international conference organized by Fund Sukhumi in Tbilisi.
The program was prepared within the framework of the project "Learning from the experience of Visegrad 4 to advocate for equal, inclusive and democratic local governance".
