Dear colleagues,

Please find attached the proposed schedule of our mission 22 and 23 of July to Samtskhe-Javakheti.

We are coming 21 of July to Tbilisi and are ready to go directly to Akhaltsikhe at the same evening (Option 1) or Monday morning (Option 2)

We have prepared a draft agenda for a half-day workshop in Akhaltsikhe followed by the visit of local infrastructure (health centres and other facilities). It is possible to make one day workshop, but I fear that local authority will face some difficulties fir mobilising main actors for one day. From our side, we can adapt ourselves.

We have met already with local NGO Green house and I think it is worth to associate them to this event. We are wondering whether any other NGOs dealing with disability exist in the region. The Green hose was presented as only one having local representation. Others are working from Tbilisi

We are mentioning two contact persons designated by local administration last time:

-              Akhaltsikhe administration: Inga Diakonori, idiakonori@mail.ru; idiakonori@gmail.com; 591 449 642

-              Akhalkalaki administration: Kliment Chtchyan; kchtchyan@gmail.com; 599 756 999

Do you want us to contact them after your first contact?

We can come back either Monday evening (Option 1) or Tuesday afternoon (Option 2) according to willingness of local authority to have more discussions about future project.

For better impact of this workshop, we would like to invite Maguli Shaghashvili and Keti Gigineishvili to participate in this workshop. We are trying to solve any practical problems related to their participation by the end of this week and we wold be happy to see them with us if they are available.

About a memorandum (MoU), Expertise France can be a signing part. We can simply use the same template as in case of Adjara (in this case I cannot see the problems from the point of view of legal department of the Ministry). But we would like to have an English translation of this memorandum before signature.

If it makes difficulties we can sign the memorandum in September as well.

I have worked on the work-plan today, but I would like to finish it tomorrow since I have made quite a lot of adjustments based on our discussion.

Please let me know your feedback so as we could adapt presentations and schedule.

With kind regards

Andrei

Greetings everyone,

As you might remember we’ve agreed to have a meeting and sign a memorandum (three way) in Akhaltsikhe on 22^nd. Since there is less than 4 working days left, I’m not sure we’ll be able to make it in this short period of time.  As we will need to prepare the memorandum and have a third party (implementer, that we don’t know yet),  agree with licensed medical institutions, as well as have go ahead from our legal dept and minister has to grant the authority to the deputy minister to sign it.

Please let us know if we still want to have an introductory meeting on 22^nd so we would let all of the participants know in advance.

Kind regards

Nutsi

Dear Nutsi, Dear partners,

Sorry for the silence. I will send you our proposals and updates tomorrow evening

With kind regards,

Andrei

Greetings again,

I hope this email finds all of you well.

We need to continue planning our trip to Akhaltsikhe, so the following topics need to be agreed among us:

1)      MoU – are we signing the MoU and who is the signatory besides the ministry and medical facilities? – we need to prepare medical facilities.

2)      Meeting agenda: what’s on the menu? Introduction of the assessment instrument, introduction of the process, signing of the MoU, establishment of the “interest group”- local govt, medical institutions, local NGOs working on disability? Parents of disabled children, disabled persons, agreement on the next steps.

We’re awaiting for the updated action plan.

Also please provide your suggestions and ideas about the Akhaltsikhe meeting.

Kind regards

Nutsi

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