This manual provides practical guidance to public servants on handling workplace sexual harassment cases. It intends to support public entities in effectively responding to workplace sexual harassment complaints and creating a safe and supporting environment for women and men in the public service.

The manual, provides practical guidance to investigators, prosecutors and judges working on cases of sexual violence, to achieve better results on criminal cases and to create a safe and supporting environment for victims of sexual violence.

The publication combines the stories of success and inspiration of WEPs signatory companies in Georgia that demonstrated exemplary practices of empowering women, brought change to corporate culture, achieved inclusive growth and considered equality as both the right thing to do and good for business.

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.

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.

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. 

This brief publication captures specifically UN Women’s partnership with artists to promote zero tolerance for VAWG/DV since 2010.

This brief publication captures specifically UN Women’s partnership with sports to promote zero tolerance for VAWG/DV since 2010. Its purpose is to describe joint journey through the achievements and challenges we have encountered and to share our experience with partners within the UN family, civil society and beyond.

From 2010-2015, UN Women worked with local partner organizations, the TASO Foundation and the Women’s Information Center, to promote the social mobilization of internally-displaced, conflict-affected and ethnic minority women and girls in Georgia.

The manual can be used by company representatives, UN Women offices and NGOs working on corporate sustainability and gender equality issues, as well as trade unions and other stakeholders that engage in training for gender equality.

The Equality Means Business training manual is intended to be used in trainings of private sector representatives on issues of gender equality and the gender dimensions of corporate sustainability.

The manual has been produced in line with legislation of Georgia against domestic violence and it includes information regarding legal regulations as well as available state services. The manual will primarily assist interested public servants in defining exactly how to respond when revealing occurrence of violence, whom to apply and which measures to demand for implementation. However, the manual is of relevance for all organizations and persons working on domestic violence issues and willing...

The goal of the study was to identify attitude of population of Georgia, in particular, people living in Tbilisi, Kakheti and Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti towards violence against women and girls, as well as domestic violence, and to assess the level of awareness of victims of violence regarding existing services. The study has been commissioned by UN Women, under the UN joint program To Enhance Gender Equality in Georgia, with the financial support of the Government of Sweden. The study has been...

In 2013 UN Women Georgia, in cooperation with the Institute for Social Studies and Analysis (ISSA), Tbilisi, conducted a study on The Needs and Priorities of Ethnic Minority Women in the Kvemo Kartli Region. The study provides an overview of the challenges and barriers preventing ethnic minority women from participating in public life and in decision-making processes.

The manual is produced to support the efforts towards gender mainstreaming into all work of the Georgian government, at central and local levels. It is intended to assist new and ongoing reforms of decentralization, public financial management and good governance/human rights through the tool and logic of gender mainstreaming. The manual will assist public servants to achieve both internal (organizational) and external (developmental) goals of their respective sector work. The manual will...

The manual has been developed under the UN Women project “Innovative Action for Gender Equality in Georgia” (IAGE) funded by the EU. The objective of the project is to adopt and implement relevant policies and legislation to address specific healthcare, social and economic needs of women from excluded groups in Georgia. The specific objective is to support women’s initiatives aimed at confidence building and social stability through addressing healthcare, social and economic...

UN Women in the framework of the EU-funded program ""Innovative Action for Gender Equality in Georgia"" (IAGE) contracted Center for Social Sciences to conduct research of the needs and priorities of women residing in isolated mountainous settings of Georgia. The end goal of the study was to identify social and economic needs of the population residing in high mountainous regions of Georgia and to use its results and recommendations for advocacy purposes with relevant authorities for the...

The goal of the study was to identify the compliance of Georgia’s existing laws and practices with respect to women offenders to the United Nations Rules for the Treatment of Female Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women Offenders (Resolution A/Res/65/229), also known as the Bangkok Rules. The study has been commissioned by UN Women, under the EU-funded project “Innovative Action for Gender Equality in Georgia” (IAGE). The study was conducted by the Penal Reform...

The study aimed at assessing the situation and needs of IDP and conflict-affected women and girls, with a focus on single, elderly and disabled women, as well as female-headed households. Association of Women and Mothers of Disabled Children DEA in partnership with the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) conducted the study. The study was carried out in Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti and Shida Kartli regions in September-August, 2013. To meet with the aims of the study, local and IDP women living in...

The aim of the study has been to obtain and analyze information regarding legal situation and social, legal and economic needs of IDP and national minority women.The study tool was a questionnaire. Ethnic minority women (18 years and older) in Marneuli and IDP women in Rustavi, Gori, Kutaisi, Zugdidi and Tbilisi cities were surveyed. The sample size was 700 (500 IDP women and 200 national minority women). Multistage certified (cluster) sampling was applied which is characterized by...