Thank you Allison – that is useful to know.

 

I need to respond to the two emails from the UN RCO, on this issue and some other comments they had about involving stakeholders in the process. So far I have just thanked them and said I would respond properly later.

 

I will do a joint email to them both next week and will send you and Triin the draft email before I send it so you can add / amend etc – but the main message will be to follow up with WHO (and the ministry) on FP monitoring.

 

A good weekend to you too!

 

Sarah

 

 

Dear Sarah, Keti, Mamuka, and Triin,

 

Thank you Sarah. This sounds great. As Triin is taking a first stab at the comments, I am happy to start with the summary.

 

I saw Erik’s comment and yes, we had suggested an indicator on FP be included but it was rejected as there were too many indicators to begin with and they were cutting, not adding. I was also told that it was not considered a multi-agency initiative so therefore not a priority. The framework was finalized and validated, so I am not sure we can do anything more (but I am still learning – so correct me if I am wrong).

 

Have a great weekend!

Allison

 

 

Sorry, forgot to include the excel file with the SDG figures added at the end.

Also, re a query from Kaki: the basic needs line is calculated as the average monthly cost of meeting basic needs per household.

Sarah

 

 

Dear Keti, Mamuka and Triin

 

The external review is now complete. We received comments from 5 people, all of them minor.

 

I am attaching:

• the report with comments inserted in the text by Erik Andermo (UN Resident Coordinator Office), Volkan Cetinkaya (World Bank), Lojas Kovacs (EU Delegation) and Kaki Zoidze (Ilia State University)
• general comments provided by Erik Andermo (I have added some of my own comments for you)
• emails from all of them (for your information only)

 

In the report, I have addressed some of the comments already. I have left these comments there for you to see but usually marked them as ‘resolved’. I have also commented on some of the comments.

 

May I suggest that Triin has a first attempt at addressing the remaining comments, calling on Keti, Mamuka and Allison for their input where necessary.

 

Although it was unusual to ask for comments from so many people, we got some thoughtful feedback from some of the referees and it was useful in terms of raising awareness of the report and its indicators, especially in the EU Delegation and the UN Resident Coordinator’s Office. In fact, Erik Andermo from the UNRCO suggested we include these indicators in the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework – which is what WHO has already recommended to them – so that is a good outcome.

 

Once the report is finalized, may I also ask Triin and Allison to prepare a first draft of an executive summary for the report, that we can all then review? This should be no more than 800 or so words. You can have a look at recent country reports for examples.

 

The next steps then will be: share the report with the Ministry for information (after the elections), get the report formally edited (a requirement for the ISBN), prepare a 10-page summary (which will be translated into Georgian) and then publish the report and the summary reports in English and Georgia on the WHO website.

 

Thanks for this last push and best wishes –

 

Sarah

 

 

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