In Kutaisi, Khoni, Tskhaltubo, Senaki, Poti and in the villages of Zugdidi Municipality - Khurcha and Koki there were held mobilization and informational meetings.

At the meetings there were discussed actual issues for local and displaced women issues were discussed. But one of the main topics was - International Day of Peace. The participants were informed about the importance of this day, events were planned, including the lessons in peace in schools.

On August 25, there was held a meeting of Kutaisi GAC. According the project, this is the last meeting of the GAC members. The participants spoke about the results of three year work. According their evaluation, the GAC made important share in formation of local gender policy. But there is still a question support of women and the growth of their number at local political level.

The GAC members consider that it is essential to keep the resource and experience, which exists at the given moment. In order to strengthen the gender policy, they consider it important to form gender council at Sakrebulo and continuation of the work in this direction.

The Khoni Sakrebulo held a regular meeting of the Council of Advisers. The theme of the meeting - discussion of strategy of social inclusion of and distribution if the issues for the work on the document, where Fund "Sukhumi" is included.

The Council once again discussed the strategic plans and objectives that will contribute to the improvement of social services in the municipality. We highlight the needs of vulnerable groups and the question of resources required for their solutions.

(Project of PIN - «Involvement of NGOs working on issues of social protection, in the strategic dialogue in Georgia" - funded by the European Union and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic).

The project is implemented with the support of the Czech organization PIN 

Khoni is the third city after Kutaisi and Tskaltubo, where the women initiative groups were created. They were chosen from work-shops, conducted on the issue of human security. The participants filled in special blanks, where they fixed motivation, why do they want to be in the initiative group.

In this group there are 6 women with the skills of communication and experience of the work on problems.

The members of initiative group of all three cities will have special training, after which work of problem advocacy will be continued.