Dear Ms. Barkalaia,

Thank you for taking the time to meet with us yesterday. The discussion was very useful and attached please find a brief summary of our discussion yesterday.

We look forward to a continued collaboration with the Ministry to strengthen women’s economic empowerment in Georgia.

Best wishes,

Mehjabeen

-----Original Message-----
From: Lika Klimiashvili
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 4:03 PM
To: Nani Bendeliani ; Elza Jgerenaia
Cc: Mehjabeen Alarakhia ; Tamar Sabedashvili
Subject: RE: PGA and other areas of cooperation of the MoIDPOTLSHA and UN Women

Dear Nani,

First of all, many thanks for sharing the list of activities.

Let me inform you that we have already received your letter regarding proposal to conduct the PGA at the Ministry. As Mrs. Deputy Minister Barkalaia told me, there is a meeting with Mrs. Tamar Sabedashvili on February 19 and we will be discussing all these issues at the mentioned meeting.

Thank you once again.

პატივისცემით   |   Respectfully

ლიკა  კლიმიაშვილი | Lika Klimiashvili

შრომისა და დასაქმების პოლიტიკის დეპარტამენტის შრომითი ურთიერთობებისა და სოციალური პარტნიორობის სამმართველოს უფროსი | Head of the Labour Relations and Social Partnership Division at the Labour and Employment Policy Department

საქართველოს ოკუპირებული ტერიტორიებიდან დევნილთა, შრომის, ჯანმრთელობისა და სოციალური დაცვის სამინისტრო | Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia 

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-----Original Message-----

From: Nani Bendeliani <nani.bendeliani@unwomen.org>

Sent: 12 February, 2019 18:38

To: Elza Jgerenaia <ejgerenaia@moh.gov.ge>; Lika Klimiashvili <lklimiashvili@moh.gov.ge>

Cc: Mehjabeen Alarakhia <mehjabeen.alarakhia@unwomen.org>; Tamar Sabedashvili <tamar.sabedashvili@unwomen.org>

Subject: PGA and other areas of cooperation of the MoIDPOTLSHA and UN Women

Dear Elza and Lika,

Thank you for very interesting and productive meeting last week. As promised, I am sending you the official letters to the Minister David Sergeenko and the Deputy Minister Tamila Barkalaia asking the permission to conduct the PGA in the Ministry. I have also attached the registration numbers, so you can follow the correspondence. We would like to kindly ask you to facilitate our the meeting with The Deputy Minister Tamila Barkalaia to commence the partnership regarding the PGA.

Hereby, as agreed I am sending you the list of activities that we can support in cooperation with the MoIDPOTLSHA:

1)            To develop the methodology of assessment of hazardous occupations for pregnant women in Georgia;

2)            In close collaboration with respective national institutions, organize around an assessment of the prospective ratification of ILO Convention No. 183 (Maternity Protection), No. 156 (Workers with Family Responsibilities) and No. 189 (Domestic Workers) and support the ratification process where appropriate;

3)            To develop an assessment matrix to conduct mapping of existing social protection floors based on ILO standards (1) access to essential health care, including maternity care; (2) basic income security for children, providing access to nutrition, education, care and any other necessary goods and services; (3) basic income security for persons of active age who are unable to earn sufficient income, in particular in cases of sickness, unemployment, maternity and disability; and (4) basic income security for older persons;

4)            The Equal Pay International Coalition (EPIC) is led by the ILO, UN Women and the OECD and is a multi-stakeholder coalition to contribute to the achievement of SDG target 8.5 focusing on equal pay between women and men for work of equal value. The Government of Georgia could consider joining this coalition for increased support and visibility of Georgia's commitment;

5)            Support in targeting the vulnerable and socially excluded women in regions (especially the regions of the WEESC project - Kvemo Kartli, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Kakheti);

6)            Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value - UN Women can support with developing the methodology;

7)            Supporting policy development or implementation related with the assessment of the labor marker regulations (eg minimum wage, Pay Gap); 

8)            To support the generation of gender-disaggregated data and evidence on strategic priority issues for improved policymaking for women's economic empowerment including the development of gender-disaggregated policy targets and indicators.

We are looking forward to further disscussing this list and indetifing the areas of the future cooperation.

All the best,

Nani Bendeliani

Project Analyst

UN Women, Georgia Country Office

3 Kavsadze Street, Office Suite 11, Tbilisi 0179, Georgia

Tel:  (+995 32) 222 06 04

        (+995 32) 222 08 70

Cell: (+995) 599 485 022

Email: nani.bendeliani@unwomen.org

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Letter to Deputy Minister ENG

Letter to Deputy Minister GEO

Letter to Minister GEO

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