Monday 20th of May:
9:00-10h: meeting at AFD (French Development Agency) (Ms Kovess, M. Lefebvre, Ms Gamgebeli)
10:30 - 12h30: Meeting with you and your team (including the persons from the social service agency) on your objectives, the general frame of the reform and the deliverables you expect from the technical review of the existing documentation. We would like also to know what are the links between mental health and handicap and understand how people are considered as mentally handicaped, and the type of support, services and institutions they benefit from.
13:00 -16h: meeting with the team in the ministry and the social service agency in charge of health statistics and mental health statistics, and understand your information system on health status and on health structure (Ms Kovess, Interpreter)
16:30 - 18:00: visit to the Georgian National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (CDC) in order to discuss the collection of mental diseases statistics, get their opinion on the present mental diseases surveillance and get the main elements they are producing and information about the tools they use (Ms Kovess, Interpreter)
Tuesday 21st of May
9h - 10h Meeting with a mobile team (Ms Kovess, Interpreter)
10h30 - 12h00 Visit to a public hospital with amental health department (medical doctors, nurses, director and persons in charge of the information system). Could be Rustavi hospital. (Ms Kovess, Interpreter)
13h - 14h30 Visit of a private structure with a mental health department (medical doctors, nurses, director and persons in charge of the information system), if this structure has some innovative ideas about the information system (Ms Kovess, Interpreter) (Ms Kovess, Interpreter)
15h30 - 19h: Meetings to be organized with NGOs and other partners: we would like to have a presentation of the work they have already done with professional associations on standards for different types of structures, and on changes needed in the law, and on innovations already in place. I am planning to ask Irma Khabazi, from the Open Society Foundation, to organize these exchanges as a workshop (Ms Kovess, M. Lefebvre, Ms Gamgebeli).
Wednesday 22nd of May
9h-11h:Continuation of the work with NGOs, other partners and ministry, to be defined on Tuesday (Ms Kovess, M. Lefebvre, Ms Gamgebeli)
11h-13h: meeting with Georgian companies specialised in population surveys (Ms Kovess, M. Lefebvre, Ms Gamgebeli)
16h-18h Closing meeting with the Ministry (Ms Kovess, M. Lefebvre, Ms Gamgebeli)