Georgia – Gender and women’s rights
Objective 25.5.1: Develop supportive policy for minor and middle enterprises in order to promote women entrepreneurship.
Objective indicator: Assessment and analytical document of the state policy document; number of development mechanisms.
Activities:
- Creating analytical expert group in order to strengthen women; creating and functioning platform with interested parties’ involvement.
- Reviewing elaborated recommendations and implementing suggestions in practice based on them.
Responsible agency: MINISTRY OF ECONOMY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF GEORGIA
Partnership agency: CIDA; Global compact Georgia AND OTHER NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS. LEPL ‘ENTERPRISE GEORGIA’. LEPL ”GEORGIA’S INNOVATIONS & TECHNOLOGY AGENCY”.
Objective 25.6.1: Elaborate appropriate amendment package concerning corporate social responsibility, including women strengthening principles.
Objective indicator: Elaborated legislative amendments package.
Activity: Researching mechanism of probable promotion concerning corporate social responsibility, including the principle of strengthening women.
Responsible agency: Ministry of Economy and sustainable development of Georgia in cooperation with parliament.
No partnership agency.
Objective 25.11.1: Define conception for elaborating promotive mechanism regarding environment protection in business sector and strengthening women.
Objective indicator: Presentation of research results.
Activity: Searching finest practice in business sector, in terms of environment protection and strengthening women economically and conducting respective research.
Responsible agency: Human Rights Secretariat of the Administration of the Government.
No partnership agency.
Objective 25.12.1: Ensure knowledge of business sector concerning human rights protection mechanisms, including personal data protection and finest standards for strengthening women.
Objective indicator: Presentation of the communicative strategy.
Activity: Elaborating effective communication strategy concerning personal data protection, women strengthening and standards of human rights protection.
No responsible agency.
Partnership agency: Stratcom.
Objective 25.14.1: Prepare manual document concerning human rights protection for companies existing in state property.
Objective indicator: Conducted respective informational campaign.
Activity: Conducting informational campaign for employees of companies belonging to state property regarding human rights protection, including strengthening women economically.
Responsible agency: Human Rights Secretariat of the Administration of the Government.
No partnership agency.
Objective 25.16.1: Ensure foreseeing issues of human rights protection in state procurement process, including women strengthening principles, not only at supportive but also obligatory level and mainstream human rights based.
Objective indicator: Prepared amendments according to the finest international practice.
Activity: Seeking best international practice about human rights protection issues during state procurement process.
Responsible agency: Human Rights Secretariat of the Administration of the Government; Ministry of Economy and sustainable development of Georgia.
No partnership agency.
Objective 25.23.1: Ensure awareness rising about UN main principles concerning business and human rights.
Objective indicator: Number of conducted trainings.
Activity: Ensuring that trainings are conducted on the principles of strengthening women and environment protection issues.
Responsible agency: Human Rights Secretariat of the Administration of the Government.
Partnership agency: Inter-agency Commission working on the issues of Gender Equality, Violence against Women and Domestic Violence.
Objective 25.25.1: Ensure conducting appropriate actions for public servants about UN main principles with the aim to provide information and raise awareness.
Objective indicator: Number of conducted trainings.
Activity: Training public servants including in terms of strengthening women economically; Using already existing module about the principle of strengthening women economically.
Responsible agency: Civil Service Bureau.
No artnership agency.