Women in Decision-Making

Date: Monday, April 26, 2021

This issue brief describes the facts and figures related to women in decision-making in Georgia. By visualizing data from Country Gender Equality profile (2020) and other relevant studies, the publication shows that women are under-represented in decision-making positions in the parliament, executive government, civil service, and local government.

Rapid Gender Assessment of COVID-19 Situation in Georgia - 2 wave

Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Initiated by three UN agencies – UNDP, UNFPA and UN Women with support from Swedish and Norwegian governments, the research builds on the results of Rapid Gender Assessment survey.

Assessment of the Social Protection System in Georgia

Date: Friday, December 25, 2020

The assessment of a social protection system in the Republic of Georgia carried out at the outset of the COVID-19 global pandemic reiterates the importance of national social protection floors to protect people in case of different risk across the lifecycle and covariate shocks.

Women, Peace and Security

Date: Thursday, December 24, 2020

This issue brief describes the situation related to Women, Peace and Security in Georgia. By visualizing data from Country Gender Equality profile (2020) and other relevant studies, the publication presents share of women in security sector as well as in peace processes and challenges faced by internally displaced and conflict-affected women.

Institutional Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women in Georgia

Date: Wednesday, December 23, 2020

This issue brief describes four different branches of institutional mechanisms for the advancement of Women in Georgia, highlighting their functions and roles in ensuring gender equality and women’s empowerment in Georgia.

Violence against Women in Georgia

Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2020

This issue brief captures state of art, as well as certain important trends of Violence against Women in Georgia. By visualizing data from Country Gender Equality profile (2020) and other relevant studies, the publication presents prevalence and forms of violence, public opinion, and government response on violence against women in Georgia and how they have been changed over time.

Assessment of COVID-19’s Impact on Women Employed as Domestic Workers in Georgia

Date: Friday, December 18, 2020

Assessment of COVID-19’s Impact on Women Employed as Domestic Workers in Georgia presents in-depth qualitative study findings on the impact of the pandemic on the lives of women domestic workers, highlights their challenges and needs and provides evidence-based recommendations to policymakers and practitioners.

Assessment of COVID-19’s Impact on Women Employed in the Health-Care Sector in Georgia

Date: Thursday, December 17, 2020

Assessment of COVID-19’s Impact on Women Employed in the Health-Care Sector in Georgia summarizes the findings of an in-depth qualitative study into the impact of the pandemic on the lives of women frontline healthcare workers, highlights the challenges they faced and provides an avenue for consideration of their needs in the COVID-19 response.

Women of Georgia in Technology

Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2020

In 2019, with the support of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in partnership with the Innovative Education Foundation, Geolab, and Universities of Batumi, Kutaisi, and Tbilisi, UN Women launched a free web programming and social media marketing training program and internship for women in western Georgia.

WEPs Communication Guidance Toolkit

Date: Monday, December 14, 2020

Women’s Empowerment Principles Communications Guidance Toolkit is intended to support the companies that signed WEPs in promoting gender equality and gender responsive business conduct.

The Power of Procurement: How to Source from Women-owned Businesses

Date: Sunday, December 6, 2020

This new guide provides corporations and their suppliers with a deeper understanding of the barriers and challenges preventing women-owned businesses from accessing and fully participating in local and global values chains.

Transforming Social Protection for Persons with Disabilities in Georgia

Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2020

This brief provides a short description of the project "Transforming Social Protection for Persons with Disabilities in Georgia” implemented by UN Women in partnership with five UN Agencies (UNICEF, WHO, UNDP, UNFPA, OHCRH) with the generous support of the Joint SDG Fund.

Rapid Gender Assessment of the COVID-19 Situation in Georgia

Date: Friday, August 14, 2020

This Rapid Gender Assessment (RGA) report summarizes the findings of an extensive study into the impact of the pandemic on the lives of Georgian residents, particularly women and girls with disabilities.

Women’s Resource Centers at the forefront of women’s economic empowerment in Azerbaijan

Date: Thursday, July 30, 2020

The brochure follows the individual stories of five women entrepreneurs supported by the UNDP Azerbaijan and UN Women. By supporting women through inclusion, experience and knowledge sharing and creating social support systems, the Women’s Resource Centers (WRCs) in Azerbaijan inspire women to use their potential to the fullest.

Benchmarks, Barriers and Bridging the Gaps: Enhancing Women's Meaningful Participation and Contribution to Peace Processes in Georgia

Date: Monday, July 6, 2020

This study explores women’s meaningful participation and contribution in peace process in Georgia. The study uses a unique methodology to analyse specific Georgian context vis-à-vis the seven key challenges identified by the UN Women global report “Women’s Meaningful Participation in Negotiating Peace and the Implementation of Peace Agreements” released in 2018.

Country Gender Equality Profile

Date: Friday, May 29, 2020

The Country Gender Equality Profile (CGEP) represents a guide to assess the existing situation regarding women’s empowerment and gender equality. The CGEP describes and analyses the present situation in Georgia mainly based on the indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while at the same time considering the BPfA and CEDAW frameworks.

Mentoring for Women's Empowerment, Guide for workplace mentoring programmes

Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Mentoring is an effective and increasingly popular way for private sector companies to promote women’s training and professional development, to support the implementation of Women’s Empowerment Principle 4 and to drive positive organizational culture change. 

Women's Solidarity Circles in Georgia

Date: Thursday, March 26, 2020

This publication captures stories of 27 women entrepreneurs supported by UN Women throughout 2018 and 2019. Apart from depicting the women’s individual journeys and successes, the stories have a common thread: that of inclusion, support, sharing and creating solidarity circles among the women, all of whom aspire to use their potential to the fullest.

Analysis of the Gender Pay Gap and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market in Armenia

Date: Monday, March 23, 2020

The report addresses the Gender Pay Gap and gender inequality in labor market in Armenia. It includes the decomposition of the Gender Pay Gap based on 2018 Labor Force Survey data, gender disaggregation of the labor indicators in Armenia, comprehensive methodological review and the guidelines of the quantitative analysis and recommendations.

Gender Pay Gap - Issue Brief

Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2020

This is brief outlines the key issues on the gender pay gap and is based on the Analysis of the Gender Pay Gap and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market in Georgia.