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In 2020, when the Farmer Field School initiative was launched in Mukhuri with the support of UN Women and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 20 women from the village gathered together to gain new knowledge.
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For almost 35 years now, no child has ever gone to a kindergarten in the village of Gurdzemi in Martvili Municipality, located in Georgia’s western region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti. The kindergarten was closed in the 1990s and has not been reopened since.
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Women dairy farmers living in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region continue their activities with improved products and new entrepreneurial skills, thanks to a successfully implemented project by UN Women and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) aimed at their empowerment.
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With the Greenhouse Pilot Programme for Women, which was implemented not only in Marneuli but also in Lagodekhi, a total of 37 women received financing to set up their greenhouses. UN Women contributed 80 per cent of the financing.
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The pilot programme started in 2022 in Marneuli and Lagodekhi municipalities within the framework of cooperation between the RDA and the UN Women Georgia Country Office. The current phase of the programme is operational in three other municipalities: Vani, Chokhatauri and Chkhorotsku.
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Since 2019, UN Women, the Kakheti Regional Development Foundation and the Taso Foundation have been collaborating on social mobilization and economic support initiatives for women in rural areas of Kakheti, Samtskhe-Javakheti and Kvemo Kartli.
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The Farmer Field School is part of the joint project between UN Women and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations called “Promoting the Economic Empowerment of Women Farmers by Supporting Dairy Production through Farmer Field School (FFS) Approaches”.
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The Farmer Field School is part of the joint project between UN Women and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations called “Promoting the Economic Empowerment of Women Farmers by Supporting Dairy Production through Farmer Field School (FFS) Approaches”.
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The training module for school resource officers is part of a memorandum signed on 4 April 2022 between UN Women and the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia.
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When they interviewed her, the 17-year-old girl was sitting in an armchair, not making eye contact with anyone, recalls Detective Gvantsa Gogava, who investigates domestic violence against juveniles in Georgia.
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UN Women conducted and online meeting to present and discuss an assessment of the domestic violence behaviour correction programmes administered in Georgia vis-à-vis international standards and to learn how similar programmes in EU countries have been operating during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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41 per cent of the population in Georgia think that domestic violence is a family matter. A new campaign by UN Women challenges the status quo and calls everyone not to stay indifferent to violence against women.
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The theme for International Women’s Day (8 March) 2020 is, I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights. The theme is aligned with UN Women’s new multigenerational campaign, Generation Equality, which marks the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
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The six-day “How to Start a Business” course taught women in Georgia how to generate start-up ideas and validate them, as well as how to build the right team and create a product. They also developed strategic and innovative thinking, and learned about planning and product distribution, financial documentation, business modeling and investment proposals.
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Every day we have the opportunity to examine our behaviours and beliefs for biases that permit rape culture to continue. From the attitudes we have about gender identities to the policies we support in our communities, we can all take action to stand against rape culture.
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The Chief Prosecutor’s Office, in cooperation with the UN Women Country Office in Georgia, organized a conference to present its analysis of domestic crimes and femicides. The trends, achievements and challenges in fighting domestic violence were meticulously discussed.
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My mother was unable to continue her undergraduate studies after the second year; this is why she was always concerned about my education.
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Nata Bekauri came to the Pankisi Gorge in Duisi village – located in Georgia’s eastern Kakheti region and mainly populated by the Kist ethnic minority – at the age of 16. Her parents had decided to send her to Georgia after the Chechen War, having just graduated from school at the time.
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The National Probation Agency’s (NPA) Rehabilitation Program Division has developed a “Rehabilitation Programme on Management of Violent Behavior, Gender Based Violence”. The new programme was presented to stakeholders on 21 April at the NPA’s offices.
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Access to services, such as shelters, for victims/survivors of domestic violence is an important part of the comprehensive strategy designed to address the problem of domestic violence. Since 2011, three state shelters have been operating in Georgia. A fourth was opened on 5th April in the Kakheti Region, in the East of Georgia.