Source: Portal GINSC
Category: IDP Georgia 
2012-02-17
On the 16th of February representatives of Women’s Information Center met with conflict affected women in Tirdznisi and with IDP women and families in the IDP settlement in Skra. The aim of the meetings were to discuss and document their problems and to offer them consultation.
In the meeting with conflict affected women in Tirdznisi the women named various issues. One of the main problems are the living conditions. The houses they and their families are living in were damaged during the war in 2008, and are still not repaired. The women hoped to receive help from the government, but the programme ended and nothing happened. Furthermore they have to deal with social issues, like high rate of unemployment and bad road conditions what makes it difficult for them to travel to the next city.
The IDP families in Skra settlement have to deal with several problems. They face severe living conditions, such as insufficient water supply, bad road conditions that make it difficult for them to get to the city and have access to infrastructure, and social issues like the absent payments of aliments.
The consultative meetings with Internally Displaced Persons and Conflict Affected Women are conducted to collect the cases for documentation and to present them in the One Window Shop meetings, in which IDP women and their families find solutions with the participation of governmental agencies. Women’s Information Center has been using the “One Window” consultation methodology as part of the project “Women for Equality, Peace and Development", which is implemented by the UN Women's Organization, with the Women's Information Center and “Taso” Foundation, with support of the Norwegian government.
At this time, Women's Information Center has been organized 7 consultative meeting in Gori, Rustavi, Kutaisi and Zugdidi. We discussed 71 cases and 40 of them were decided successfully.
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