📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: Europarat / Council of Europe (CoE)
Country: Georgia Contract type: Standardvertrag Project start: 01.10.2024 Funding amount: € 1.800.000,00 End: 31.12.2027
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
The project aims to ensure that residents across Georgia enjoy enhanced public services and increased community involvement at the local level through participatory and human rights-based decision-making, along with efficient decentralization efforts.
Expected results
- The regulatory frameworks and institutional setup are suited to the implementation of effective citizen engagement in political decision-making.
- Local authorities and civil society actively use participatory mechanisms, demonstrating awareness and commitment to collaborative decision-making.
- The central government applies a human rights-based participatory approach in the development of the decentralization strategy and its action plan.
- Local authorities effectively implement gender-responsive and inclusive initiatives that promote human rights and gender equality, support underrepresented groups, and advance environmental sustainability
- Local authorities and their national association effectively participate in multilevel governance improving integration and implementation of human rights practices across all levels.
Target group / Beneficiaries
While continuing to collaborate with the 18 local authorities involved in the previous project, this project will extend its scope and target up to 33 local authorities across all regions of Georgia. The target group includes elected representatives, municipal staff and public servants, civil society, media, and residents, with the particular focus on women, youth and underrepresented groups, including persons with disabilities. About 4,760 direct beneficiaries are envisaged to benefit from this action.
Activities
Building on the achievements of the previous intervention, the project will support local authorities and their national association as key partners in multilevel governance on human rights issues, enhancing their advocacy efforts in dialogue with youth and underrepresented groups, while also considering a green perspective. It will implement actions at both the local and central levels to raise awareness about civil participation and human rights protection, aiming to steer behavioral change and foster a participatory culture. This will be achieved for instance by the following activities:
- Provide technical support to local authorities and CSOs to introduce and apply innovative civil participation tools in a sustainable way.
- Provide training to media representatives in participatory methods.
- Organize in-country peer-to-peer visits and international study visits in civil participation to learn from the best practices; or
- Carry out youth and underrepresented groups’ advocacy training programmes.
Context
The project will address cross-cutting issues such as environmental protectio
