Dear Marko,

I hope you are doing well. Next week is convenient for me.

With best regards, Keti

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Dear Keti and Lika,

I’m happy to be back now from my annual leave and available once more to progress in our work. I hope you’ve also had a refreshing break and that you will have the chance to comment on the draft ToR I’ve prepared. If you are available, perhaps we could arrange a catch-up call for next week?

Really looking forward to getting this work off the ground – best regards and greetings from London,

Marko

OFFICIAL USE

Dear Keti and Lika,

Apologies for the long silence from my side over June and July since my progress was side-lined by other commitments. I hope this finds you well and secure under the ongoing pandemic circumstances.

Please find attached a draft terms of reference (ToR) for the first assignment under our MoU: “Improving nursing and midwifery skills in Georgia: Establishing a professional regulator, licencing and registration”. Would you be able to review it over the coming weeks and make any changes or additions you see necessary? I will be on annual leave between 10 August and 1 September but I hope that we’ll be able to finalise the ToR in early September and open the procurement procedure to launch the work in October or November. Would this timing work from your side?

In terms of potential delivery partners, the Georgia-based Curatio International Foundation appears to offer a very good fit for this assignment (see: http://curatiofoundation.org/). Do you have any experience of working with them? Other possible delivery partners Katie and I have identified include the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) (https://www.ncsbn.org/index.htm), the Health Policy Partnership (https://www.healthpolicypartnership.com/our-work/projects/) and Ms Tata Chanturidze at Oxford Policy Management (see: https://www.opml.co.uk/people/tata-chanturidze). We will look in more detail for possible consultancies and also welcome any recommendations you may have of local or international experts suitable for delivering this work.

Do please let me know your thoughts on the draft ToR and possible delivery partners and let’s plan for a detailed catch-up call in early September in case you are available.

Best regards and really looking forward to delivering this work,

Marko

OFFICIAL USE

Dear Keti and Lika,

Many thanks indeed for your quick responses on this and for all of the excellent comments. I’ve integrated virtually all of these now and I attach the final version for your files. We will issue this tomorrow in time for the weekend press.

In the meantime do please let me know in case you need any support regarding the final minor step in DocuSign to finalise the MoU.

In any case, Katie and I will be in touch in the coming fortnight as we begin setting out the ToR for the first concrete assignment under this work (relating to Objective A).

All the very best in the meantime,

Marko

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