Dear Deputy Minister Barkalaia,

We wanted to take the opportunity to check in with you whether you need any further information regarding your intervention during the webinar on this upcoming Wednesday, November 25^th, at 8:30 AM EST, which will be 5:30PM local time in Tbilisi. 

Please find attached the agenda, and you will note that you are the first person to speak during the sections on “Protecting Impacted Children - What remittance receiving countries can do”. Here are some ideas on what you might want to focus your presentation on:

• Briefly describe the importance of remittances for Georgia and children in Georgia, and changes due to COVID
• Your decision to provide a Universal Child Grant (UCG) to alleviate the economic impact of COVID19: what supported your decision? What were barriers/problems you needed to overcome to be able to roll out the UCG?
• How do you think the UCG may have helped families and children that usually receive remittances?
• Any challenges and lessons learnt that may be applicable beyond the specific context in Georgia.

As indicated below, there is no need for a Power Point, and you would have 10 min to present. However, if you wish to use a few slides, maybe to show some data or photos, please feel free to send the slides to us, so we can put them up during the webinar.

If helpful for you, we can connect on Monday or Tuesday to talk through your presentation and answer any questions you may have. Due to time difference, we can be available any time your afternoon Tbilisi time Monday or Tuesday (except 5PM-6PM your time on Tuesday).

Thank you once again for joining us, we are looking forward to learning more about the fantastic work done for children in Georgia.

Warmest regards,

Saskia

Dear Deputy Minister Barkalaia,

Thank you very much for agreeing to participate and highlighting the fantastic work in Georgia on rolling out the Universal Child Grant. As the topic of the webinar is the decline in global remittances and its impact on children, we are particularly interested in how the UCG may have alleviated some of the impact of declining remittances on children that are dependent on these funds.

Please find attached the Concept Note, and we will be in touch next week with a more detailed agenda, and with instructions on the presentations. As the audience will be mainly other member states, they would certainly be interested in challenges and lessons learnt that may be applicable beyond the specific context in Georgia. There is no need for a Power Point, and you would have about 5 min to present. Please do not hesitate to be in touch with any immediate questions you may have.

Thank you again for making the time to join, we very much appreciate it.

Best regards,

Saskia

Dear Saskia,

I would like to introduce you Deputy minister Tamuna Barkalaia from the Ministry of health ( Ministry of Internally displaced person from the occupied territories, labor,  health and social affairs), who was leading the implementation of the universal child grants in Georgia. She kindly agreed to present Georgia’s case. Deputy minister probably will require more information on the webinar, agenda, concept note and may be couple of words on your expectations regarding the case presentation. I wish you a successful cooperation,

Best Regards,