Dear Deputy Ministers, Colleagues

We are planning to hold an online Third Steering Committee Meeting of the Skills4Jobs TA Project early in February. The purpose of the meeting is to present and discuss progress in project implementation since the Second Steering Committee meeting which was held at the end of May 2020, and planning for the next implementation period. These issues will be included in the third six-monthly progress report of the project (September 2020 to February 2021) which will be drafted during February, and the views of Steering Committee members will be very important in helping us to draft the report.

The meeting will last no more than 2 hours. I am writing now to consult you on possible dates suggested by the EU Delegation, and should be grateful for an indication of whether either 3^rd or 4^th February would be convenient. I suggest a starting time of either 15.00 or 16.00 on either day.

I should be grateful for an indication of your preferred date and starting time. If neither date is convenient, I should be grateful for suggestions of possible alternatives that might be more convenient.

I am attaching for your information the second six-monthly progress report of the project, covering the period from March to August 2020. If you have any comments, please let me have them by 1^st February. However, please bear in mind that the report covers only the period until the end of the second reporting period which ended in August last year. Although up-to-date until then, it does not include any developments since then, and you are advised that the log frame, activity schedule and other aspects of the reporting will be updated in the third progress report which we are now preparing.

I look forward to receiving details of your availability to take part in the meeting.

With best regards

David Handley

DAVID HANDLEY

Team Leader

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Technical Assistance to Skills Development for Matching Labour Market Needs in Georgia

An EU-funded project under the Skills4Jobs Programme, Phase 2

Implemented by a Consortium led by GOPA Worldwide Consultants

Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport

4 Sanapiro Str. 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia

Cellphone: +995 595 400 371 (Georgia), +44 (0) 77 6880 7787 (UK)

david.handley@gopa.de; david.handley@pem-consult.de

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