NITG Final Program Report Year 2006-2010
NATIONAL INTEGRATION AND TOLERANCE IN GEORGIA (NITG)
Program Final Report
Cooperative Agreement Number: 114-A-00-06-00073-00 Reporting Period: July 2006 – June 2010 Reporting Agency: United Nations Association of Georgia
Ramaz Aptsiauri Chief of Party, NITG
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TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Acronyms ...... 4 Executive Summary ...... 5 Program Partners and Counterparts ...... 7 Program Design Summary ...... 8 Program Accomplishments and Results ...... 10 Policy Development ...... 10 National Concept and Action Plan for Tolerance and Civic Integration ...... 10 Technical Assistance to the Integration/Minority Related Government Bodies ...... 15 Ministry for Civic Reintegration ...... 15 Central Elections Commission ...... 15 Ministry of Education and Sciences ...... 16 State Ministry for Reintegration Issues ...... 17 Administration of the President of Georgia ...... 17 B. Media Programming ...... 18 Italian Yard, Weekly Talk Show ...... 18 Multiethnic Georgia, Documentary Series ...... 19 Talks on Diversity, Radio talk-show ...... 20 Dialogue, regional TV partnership product ...... 20 Diversity Georgia Website ...... 20 Diversity Festivals ...... 20 Civil Georgia ...... 21 C. GRANTS Making ...... 22 Offensive Terminology in the Media ...... 23 Support for Non-Georgian Language Schools ...... 23 Higher Education and Civic Knowledge ...... 23 Participatory Budgeting ...... 23 Enhanced Democratic Governance within Ethnic Communities ...... 23 Female Ethnic Minority Socio-Economic Activism ...... 23 Step to tolerance ...... 24 Increasing the levels of tolerance and integration; ...... 24 D. Training and Education ...... 25 Civic Education Clubs, Training Platform ...... 25 Diversity Management Manual ...... 26 Diversity Management Training ...... 27 Diversity Management Training for Trainers ...... 27 Diversity Management Trainers Network ...... 27 Trainings for Media ...... 27 Trainings for Local Government ...... 28 Trainings for NITG Grants Component Applicants ...... 28 Organizational Development Trainings ...... 28 Gender Awareness Training ...... 29 Training for Minority School Directors ...... 29 E. Research and Analysis ...... 31 Integration Assessment Survey Report ...... 31 Generalized Tolerance Index ...... 31
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Monitoring of NCAP Implementation: ...... 31 Key Achievements ...... 33 Recommendations for future assistance ...... 36 Financial Narrative ...... 39 Attachments ...... 43
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NITG Final Program Report Year 2006-2010 List of Acronyms
CEC Central Elections Commission CIF Civic Integration Foundation CITC Council for Civil Integration and Tolerance Council CoE Council of Europe CSO Civil Society Organization DIP Detailed Implementation Plan DMU Democrat Meskhs Union EMC Ethnic Minority Council EPF Eurasia Partnership Foundation FCNM Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities FH-EU Freedom House –Europe GIPA Georgian Institute of Public Affairs GoG Government of Georgia GTI Generalized Tolerance Index GPB Georgian Public Broadcasting (1st TV Channel) MEP Monitoring and Evaluation Plan MoES Ministry of Education and Science MP Member of Parliament NAEC National Examinations Center NCTCI National Council of Tolerance and Civil Integration NCAP National Concept and Action Plan for Tolerance and Civic Integration NISAP National Integration Strategy and Action Plan NITG National Integration and Tolerance in Georgia Program NGO Non-governmental Organization PG Partners-Georgia PDO Public Defender’s Office PTF Policy Task Force RFA Request for Application SO Strategic Objective UNAG United Nations Association of Georgia USAID United States Agency for International Development
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NITG Final Program Report Year 2006-2010 Executive Summary
New government of Georgia, acceded to power after the Rose Revolution, soon declared the ethnic minority integration issues among the new national policy priorities, articulating the strong intention of the Government to commit to building the coherent society and promoting the ethnic minority community participation in national policy. This statement was also the part of Georgia’s renewed declaration of Euro-Atlantic aspirations. However, growing concern for ethnic minority-related issues, the soviet inherited predicament of the nation, revealed major problems that have been piling up during the years of inactivity and disregard. Closer look into minority issues revealed major obstacles on every level. The main ones were the lack of common vision by the State concerning ethnic minority integration, non-existence of a policy regarding ethnic minorities, and lack of regulatory basis that would regulate ethnic minority issues. Overall, the state lacked both policy vision and policy tools to address the ethnic minority integration problems.
The Government of Georgia made an express commitment to the goals of ethnic minority integration when it ratified the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities on 22nd December 2005. Earlier in 2005 President of Georgia released a decree “On development of National Integration Strategy and Action Plan” that served as a basis for creation of Civil Integration and Tolerance Council (CITC), which functioned under the State Ministry for Civil Integration (later dissolved). However, due to various reasons the CITC was rather inert until 2008, when the Council was revived under the President’s Advisor on Minority Issues, as a result of the dismissal of its original institutional home – Office of the State Minister for Civic Integration Issues.
These explicit government commitments and interest in this issue area, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in cooperation with the Government of Georgia (GoG), initiated the support mechanism – National Integration and Tolerance in Georgia Program (NITG), where the United Nations Association was selected as the implementing partner (UNAG).
Few years later, UNAG celebrated the completion of one of its most successful programs, National Integration and Tolerance in Georgia program [NITG], supported by USAID. One of the firsts of the kind, the program comprehensively and multi-dimensionally targeted the express government commitments with regard to the ethnic minority issues, the soviet inherited predicament of the nation.
From the very inception of the program, the Program was driven by a unique vision of a state and non-state partnership, as a platform for intersectoral collaboration both on central and local levels. In the exercise of such an approach and with the agenda of UNAG to mobilize all available governmental, civil society and community resources for putting the ethnic integration process forth, NITG ultimately excelled in the capacity of the clearinghouse for inter-sectoral collaboration on minority issues.
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Development and adoption of the National Concept and Action Plan for Tolerance and Civic Integration (NCAP) was major accomplishment of not only the program itself and the civil society at large, but the Government of Georgia with regard to integration programming. Policy development was accompanied with the elaboration of the civic monitoring framework and platform, an innovative monitoring mechanism, which brings the different entities from different levels of governance, as well as the minority communities, on board for collaborative monitoring of NCAP implementation process.
As a major complement to the policy achievements, the program also created the pioneer media platforms for exposing and discussing the ethnic minority and cultural diversity related issues in the country (Italian Yard, Talks on Diversity, etc.). These and many other program outputs of NITG, which are crucial in their essence, have become the grounds for further national integration programming in Georgia, past the life of the program, both on government and civil society levels.
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NITG Final Program Report Year 2006-2010 Program Partners and Counterparts
The multi-dimensional and multisectoral collaboration model, which was developed in close consultations with USAID and the GoG and successfully employed with NITG, proved to be very effective for handling such a complex and sensitive issue, as the ethnic/civic integration is in Georgia. It also proved to serve best as the multiplier of the program effects, through strong partnership with other stakeholders, in terms of cost- sharing and other mutually beneficial cooperation practices.
Program counterparts: state and non-state institutions that were directly involved in program planning and implementation processes, with the essential stake in the primary outputs of the program.
The Government of Georgia: primary counterpart and the stakeholder of NITG, represented by the Administration of the President of Georgia, Advisor to the President of Georgia, Civic Integration and Tolerance Council, State Ministry for Reintegration and other ministries and government agencies that are involved in integration processes.
Georgian Public Broadcasting: main media partner of NITG, responsible over production of NITG media products, including the talk show Italian Yard and cycle of documentary series – Multiethnic Georgia.
Freedom House Europe: main research partner of NITG, contributing with the expertise, coaching and guidance on the development of NITG research methodologies and frameworks, Generalized Tolerance Index, and implementation monitoring mechanisms
Eurasia Partnership Foundation: main partner of NITG with the Grants Component, responsible over award, administration and monitoring of the NITG Grants Component funds.
Partners Georgia: main training partner of NITG, responsible over developing the training manuals and modules in diversity management, as well as other training modules necessary for NITG interventions.
Program Partners: parties that were directly involved in NITG implementation on different levels, in the capacity of primary partners for program implementation, production and/or development processes:
Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia • Central Elections Commission • Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia • Public Defender of Georgia • Ethnic Minority Council at the Public Defender of Georgia • Georgian Public Broadcasting • UN Development Programme • European Center for Minority Issues • Regional TV companies and local CSOs
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NITG Final Program Report Year 2006-2010 Program Design Summary
Programming and operational ideology of NITG was built on a consistent interconnection of each of the elements of program performance, as a strategic mechanism of securing the sustainability of the actions that program was designed to perform. To acquire relevant legitimacy, formulation and implementation of the integration and tolerance policy was planned to be broad-based and inclusive. This was made possible through forming the partnerships which included the public, private and government sectors. NITG promoted the formation of broad-based coalitions bringing together key stakeholders, constituencies, proponents and beneficiaries, including ethnic minority groups. Through such collaboration, the participants were given the opportunity to enjoy the ownership of the process, and become stakeholders of the resulting strategy and action plan.
Overall mission design of the program, developed in consultations with USAID, the Government of Georgia and other primary stakeholders of the program, is provided herein:
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Program, from its original design, consisted of three core components (Policy, Media, Grants) that produced the major policy and other program outputs and impacts on different levels. Core components were supported by secondary components, such as Research and Training sub-components, delivering crucial information for further policy programming, and necessary skills and knowledge for NITG target audiences, in respective order.
Expressed government commitment to ethnic/civic integration issues, has become the foundation for the inception and the overall design of NITG, which considering the policy level enthusiasm and commitment of the Government of Georgia, made the development of the strategy and action plan, the central segment of NITG design. Program heavily targeted the media and CSO environment in Georgia, and invested in developing the brand new for Georgia media products, that would promote the countrywide awareness on ethnic minority issues. The media component was also designed to promote the core values and goals of National Integration and Tolerance in Georgia program through different central and regional TV, radio and printed media means.
NITG included the grants component, which was specially designed to provide the grant sub-award mechanisms for supporting those initiatives of civil society organizations and minority communities, which would in some way complement the overall mission and work of NITG. The component also aimed to stimulate the cooperation between civil society and the public sector. It also aimed at strengthening the minority NGO capacities on local levels, and developing best practices in addressing the integration related issues. NITG grants component was implemented in partnership with the Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF), former Eurasia Foundation Georgia (EFG).
Training component, an education oriented support to NITG, was implemented in partnership with Partners Georgia. Component was designed to deliver the diversity education and diversity management skills to program target audiences. Component also aimed to strengthen the minority civil society organizations and other interest groups, through delivering the necessary skills for institutional development and advanced advocacy skills, as well as to transfer the diversity management training skills to training institutions and individual trainers in Georgia, for incorporation of received skills in their own working agenda. NITG developed the Diversity Management training module and the manual, which later became a popular trend on Georgian training market. In parallel to direct training delivery, total 24 trainers were trained by NITG that delivered cascade trainings to local populations and minority communities throughout Georgia.
Finally, the program was provided with the information backup by the research component, which was designed to determine the targets of integration and tolerance programming and development processes, as well as provide inputs for guiding the policy document development process. Research component was implemented in partnership with the Freedom House Europe and the Applied Research Company, together with number of local research organizations and think-tanks.
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NITG Final Program Report Year 2006-2010 Program Accomplishments and Results
Programming and operational ideology of NITG was built on a consistent interconnection of each of the program elements, as a strategic mechanism of securing the sustainability of the program actions. Every program component was designed in a way, which would fully complement the mainstream process that NITG was built upon, and help produce the most sustainable impacts.
Policy Development
The Government of Georgia made an express commitment to the goals of ethnic minority integration when it ratified the CoE Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities on December 22 of 2005. Earlier in 2005 the President of Georgia released a decree “On development of National Integration Strategy and Action Plan” that served as a basis for creation of Civil Integration and Tolerance Council (CITC), which functioned under the State Ministry for Civil Integration (see Policy Process Structure section).
The government commitment to the integration issues has become the foundation for the agreement between USAID, Government of Georgia and UNAG, to launch the process of development of the state strategy and action plan for promoting the civic integration and tolerance nationwide.
Although a central process, NITG assistance to the Government of Georgia was not limited to the creation of the policy platform and development the Policy and Action Plan (originally titled as National Integration Strategy and Action Plan – NISAP, and later renamed to National Concept and Action Plan for Tolerance and Civic Integration – NCAP). NITG provided definitional support to the Central Elections Commission, Ministry of Education and Sciences, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other entities, that had particular stake and commitment to the integration processes.
NITG approach to policy development process was to offer the open source programming on the policy content, having brought all interested state and non-state actors to the development process. With the intent of sustaining the government commitment to cooperation, the key agent of the process, NITG offered full ownership on the document and the process to the state parties, NITG resting with the role of a clearinghouse for the development process.
National Concept and Action Plan for Tolerance and Civic Integration
NCAP, the major output of the program, encompasses the government’s vision of supporting the civic integration processes in Georgia. The main goal of the document is to support the building of a democratic and consolidated civil society, which is based on
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NITG Final Program Report Year 2006-2010 common values, which considers diversity as a source of its strength and provides every citizen with the opportunity to maintain and develop his/her identity. Worth noting is that up to 90% of program activities in the Action Plan is supported from the state budget.
Concept: The National Concept for Tolerance and Civil Integration elaborates national strategy and objectives in six main directions: rule of law; education and state language; media and access to information; political integration and civil participation; social and regional integration; culture and preservation of identity. The Action Plan implies specific activities and programs according to strategic directions of the Concept that must be implemented in the next five years. Responsible for the implementation of relevant components of the Action Plan are specific governmental bodies, which are indicated in the document.
Action Plan/Implementation: Implementation of the Action Plan is coordinated by the Office of the State Minister for Reintegration Issues. Governmental bodies responsible for implementation of the Action Plan, according to the policy developed by the Office of the State Minister for Reintegration Issues, present the reports developed in frames of their competence by the 5th day of every month. On 10th December of every year the Office of the State Minister for Reintegration Issues presents its report on the implementation of the Action Plan by the relevant governmental bodies to the Government of Georgia and Civil Integration and Tolerance Council.
Monitoring: Implementation of the Action Plan is monitored by the Civil Integration and Tolerance Council, which, if necessary, will develop recommendations on the implementation of the Action Plan and will consider suggestions on changes and additions to the Action Plan.
Funding: The main financial source for the implementation of the National Concept for Tolerance and Civil Integration and the Action Plan is the state budget. The Action Plan provides the 5 years workplan for the government, however the Action Plan budget will be reviewed and approved on an annual basis.
Policy Process Structure
Policy development process consisted of several stages, both because of the increasing public and government attention to the development process, and a constantly changing policy environment, as well as of its main actors. Policy process went through number of challenges, starting with the temporary absence of clear government counterpart, ending with the poor inter-governmental coordination of the crucial cross-sectoral contribution to the development process. Large number of state and non-state entities/stakeholders was eventually involved in the process, putting NITG against the major challenge of coordinating the interests and priorities of all involved parties.
The overall process was complex, primarily due to the number of involved parties and interests, but the pattern of communication and cooperation that NITG designed and employed in the process, helped overcome the challenges, and ultimately put the process forth to the major definitional accomplishment of the program, and the civil society sector at large. The stakeholder map/tree included, but wasn’t limited to the following:
State Ministry For Civic Integration First government entity responsible for ethnic minority integration processes, and the first government counterpart of NTIG, as well as the first parent entity for the Civic Integration and Tolerance Council, which was dissolved in 2008, and later substituted by CITC, and later complemented by newly established State Ministry for Reintegration.
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President’s Advisor on Civil Integration Issues One of the leading government actors in civic integration / policy development processes, in the capacity of the main communication point with the Administration of the President of Georgia, for continuous re-affirmation of Government commitment for cooperation.
Civic Integration and Tolerance Council The Civil Integration and Tolerance Council (CITC) under the President was established in August 2005, to develop the draft National Integration Strategy and Action Plan (NISAP), later the primary counterpart and stakeholder of NITG.
Policy Task Force With the memorandum signed between NITG and the Government, PTF was created to guide the elaboration of the policy document (NISAP/NCAP). Members of the PTF were selected among prominent civil experts and high ranking state officials.
Public Defender of Georgia First-hand responsible party for the protection of the national minority rights, Public Defender became the natural participant of the policy process, being the one of the main participants of consultations and the development process.
Ethnic Minority Council Under the auspices of Public Defender, the Council is the main consultative assembly of ethnic minority communities/organizations in Georgia. The Council was directly involved in policy development process, as the first-hand recipient of the policy benefits.
State Ministry for Reintegration Created by the Government of Georgia in 2008 to contribute to the processes of reintegration and building of the unified state of Georgia, the State Ministry soon became the active counterpart of the policy process.
Inter-governmental Working Group Successor of the Policy Task Force, the Working Group spanned over bigger range of all Government entities that had a certain stake in integration policy development. The Working Group was the second final stage and home for policy formulation process.
Policy Development Process The first draft of the policy document was elaborated by the Policy Task Force (later referred as to PTF), and provided the basic foundations of the ultimate output document. The document developed the a. vision statement, b. gaps analysis, and c. strategic directions, which were duly revisited and modified in the course of the development process, continuously incorporating the changing environment and government priorities, as well as the public comments and suggestions from minority communities that were collected through wide public review campaign, supported by NITG. NITG also provided a full-time consultant to the Office of the President’s Advisor on Civil Integration Issues and the State Ministry for Reintegration, to collect and review final remarks/comments from relevant state agencies and other stakeholders.
High political disturbances and tensions of late 2007, the grounds of later extraordinary Presidential and Parliamentary elections of 2008, resulted in decreased participation of the Government of Georgia in the policy development process, which became a logical temporary impediment for further progress of the policy process.
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Security Council of Georgia and other governmental counterparts, to further extend the government interest in the process. As a result of broadened consultations, NITG achieved the reactivation of the Civic Integration and Tolerance Council, having advocated the renewal of its composition with newly appointed high ranking public officials, deputy ministers and members of the Parliament, as well as the representatives from civil society institutions and minority communities. CITC reactivation soon resulted in finalization of the final draft of the Policy Document.
Inter-governmental Working Group was established, the successor of the Policy Task Force, following the emergence of new active government actor in the field – the State Ministry for Reintegration Issues. The working group became the new and final home for the policy development process, having finalized the document, together with its due Action Plan, and submitted for the final review of process participants, and eventually submitted to the Government of Georgia for final approval.
Public Review Campaign NITG supported a wide public outreach campaign during the second half of 2008 in Tbilisi and the regions of Georgia that are traditionally populated by national minorities (Samtskhe-Javakheti, Kvemo Kartli and Shida Kartli regions). The goal of the outreach campaign was to present the draft NCAP (aka NISAP) to the general public and minority communities, and collect relevant feedbacks and suggestions, which were duly incorporated into the final output document that was eventually adopted by the Government of Georgia on May 08 of 2009 (Decree N348).
Town Hall Meetings Despite the extreme political instability of Georgia in 2007 and 2008, started with the social unrest in 2007, followed with the extraordinary presidential and parliamentary elections, and ended with the military conflict in August of 2008, NITG successfully managed to secure the Government participation and further commitment/support, as well as to keep the public informed and involved in the development process.
Series of town hall meetings were held in Kvemo Kartli and Samtskhe-Javakheti to introduce the policy, as well as other integration-related initiatives to the minority communities. In parallel to the policy introduction, the review process also intended to promote the consensus building and dialogue between the public and the government, and raise public confidence in the government policies, a natural prerequisite for successful finalization and installation of NCAP.
Public Forum In November, 2008 NITG supported the public forum that took place in Tbilisi to present the final/modified draft NCAP to the wider public. The Advisor to the President on Civil Integration Issues, the State Minister for Reintegration, the Minister of Education and Science, and the Public Defender jointly presented the draft to the audience. MPs and other high ranking state officials, involved in policy development, also actively engaged in general discussion of the document, and responded to
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intensive questioning from the audience. The session was attended by local NGOs, international organizations and national minority communities.
Ethnic Minority Council NITG facilitated signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation between the Ethnic Minority Council under the Ombudsman and the CITC (June 26, 2008), bringing the Ethnic Minority Council, that unites up to 60 national minority associations throughout Georgia, formally on board in both the development and monitoring of the NCAP. This partnership eventually resulted in development of the joint civic monitoring mechanism over NCAP.
NCAP Finalization & Adoption: As a result of multilateral consultations, primary responsibilities were distributed among key governmental actors. It was agreed that the State Ministry for Reintegration would coordinate implementation of the NCAP. The President’s Advisor on Civil Integration Issues and the CITC were tasked to coordinate monitoring process and provision of consultancy on further advancement of the NCAP.
Having finalized the process, NITG engaged in intensive consultations with the GoG over adoption of the National Concept and Action Plan for Tolerance and Civil Integration (NCAP), the process that was launched by NITG from the very inception of the policy document.
In March 2009 the final version of NCAP was approved and passed to the Government of Georgia at the special session of the CITC. In May, 2009 NITG accomplished the basic part of its policy mandate, after NCAP was adopted on the Government Session and signed by the Premier Minister on May 8th of 2009 ((Decree N348)). This document unifies the state vision of establishing a tolerant society and specific action plans for relevant state agencies to promote the civil integration of national minorities.
NCAP Implementation and Monitoring: NCAP implementation and monitoring responsibilities were divided between two government entities (CITC and State Minister for Reintegration). NITG decided to direct further technical and consultative assistance in both directions, in order to ensure both efficient coordination of NCAP implementation, as well as its competent and consistent monitoring and evaluation.
NITG worked with the Freedom House Europe on development of the general monitoring framework for the National Concept and Action Plan for Tolerance and Civil Integration. The framework provides basic template of evaluation questions and instructions as well as issues to consider for timing, selection of suggested more ‘in-depth’ evaluation focus points, and actors that should be considered in the process. For securing efficient and inclusive civic monitoring process, NITG facilitated building the partnership between the CITC and the Ethnic Minority Council, which later became one of the lead entities of the monitoring process (the Council).
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NITG Final Program Report Year 2006-2010 Technical Assistance to the Integration/Minority Related Government Bodies
In parallel to the policy development process, NITG invested its resources in providing the technical assistance to the primary government stakeholders of the integration process, the participants of the policy development process at the same time. NITG program stake in this process was to ensure the competent involvement of and further effective follow-up by these state and non-state actors.
Ministry for Civic Reintegration In 2007, as part of its commitment to the Council of Europe (CoE), Georgia was expected to present the first cycle country report on implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM). As the State Ministry of Civic Integration Issues had no previous experience in fulfilling such a task, NITG provided assistance in development of the cycle report. NITG worked closely with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Georgian ambassador to CoE, and assisted the State Minister for Civic Integration (office dissolved in 2008), to coordinate with all 19 Ministries, the Ombudsman’s office and other stakeholders in the drafting process.
NITG has also contributed to collection of data and feedbacks from state and non-state actors. UNAG consultant was personally involved in development and finalization of the report. Apart from existing legal framework and practice, the cycle report also reflected further commitments of the GoG to continue its efforts in the field of national minority integration, including the commitment undertook in the agreement with NITG to adopt the National Integration Strategy and Action Plan (NISAP).
Central Elections Commission As an attempt to support establishment of best practices and success cases in the field of integration, NITG provided assistance to the Central Election Commission (CEC) with the Extraordinary Presidential Elections and Plebiscite of January 05, 2008, Parliamentary Elections of May 21, 2008 and Local Self-Government Elections of May 30, 2010. In order to guarantee inclusion of national minorities in the political process and provide them with better access to elections, the CEC has requested NITG assistance in translation of election related materials into minority languages.
NITG left the major footprint in the electoral practice of Georgia, when for the first time national minorities were able to vote in their native languages (Armenian, Azerbaijani, Ossetian). Despite short timeframes, NITG effectively responded to the CEC needs and translated over 500 pages of election related documents in 4 languages (Armenian, Azerbaijani, Russian and Ossetian), and also published the precinct election commission manuals in these languages. List of documents included:
Voter bulletins Summary protocols Precinct and District Commission Protocols
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Legal and procedural instructions Applications Elections log books Posters TV and Radio Ads and other promotional materials Voters lists
Under election assistance initiative, NITG launched the Elections.ge web-site (www.elections.ge), which focuses on election related events, and accumulates main information and resources on the election process. Elections.ge is the only web based information source providing unified information on elections covering the GoG, local and International non-governmental observations.
Ministry of Education and Sciences NITG assisted the Ministry of Education and Science (MoES) in its initiatives to enhance knowledge of the Georgian language among national minorities and improve their access to higher education. In 2008 NITG co-supported the pilot project of MoES, which involved Georgian language courses for non-Georgian speaking students. Primary beneficiaries were the university entrants who registered at the National Examinations Center to take general skills exam either in Russian, Armenian or Azerbaijani languages. Totally 390 university entrants have benefited from the project. They were provided with 81 hours of Georgian language intensive training and 40.5 hours of general skills training. The project has also retrained teachers in teaching methodologies of the Georgian language and general skills.
NITG assisted the MoES in implementation of Georgian language supporting projects. Specifically, financial support was provided to the conference on "Bilingual Education in Georgia" organized by the MoES in November, 2009. “Bilingual Education Program”, which was presented at the conference, was translated into Armenian, Azerbaijani and Russian languages by NITG. This direcion was further supported by different interventions through sub-project awards made by NITG through Eurasia Partnership Foundation.
In December of 2009, with NITG support, directors of 36 minority-language public schools involved in the MoES pilot program of “Supporting Multilingual Education” were trained in diversity management. In addition, 40 bilingual public schools, as well as Gardabani and Bolnisi (Kvemo Kartli) based “Language Houses”, which provide Georgian language courses for local minority population, have been furnished and equipped with TV sets, DVD players, computer technique, and stationary with the help of NITG.
The pilot initiatives, supported by NITG, later resulted in the general policy level changes in the education system, in terms of introducing the new tools for ethnic minority student integration – university admission quota system.
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State Ministry for Reintegration Issues In 2008, the Office of the State Minister for Reintegration Issues was charged with the responsibility to coordinate the implementation of NCAP. In the support of the State Ministry, NITG lobbied the creation of the permanent commission that would oversee and coordinate actions of different state agencies involved in the implementation of the NCAP.
In June of 2009, the workshop that was supported by NITG and organized by the State Ministry for Reintegration, saw the establishment of the State Intergovernmental Commission composed of public officials directly responsible for the activities and programs included in the NCAP.
The NITG hired expert facilitated meetings of the State Intergovernmental Commission and helped to enhance its communication and reporting mechanisms via developing new reporting guidelines, forms, and web-based communication tools. Members of the Commission were provided with on-the-job training on reporting methodology, communication skills and performance indicators. The expert has also compiled the first state report on the implementation of the NCAP based on sub-reports submitted by members of the Commission. NITG translated and published the report in minority languages (Russian, Azerbaijani and Armenian).
NITG has also provided funding for elaboration and publishing of two manuals, “Georgian and International Legal Norms on Minority Rights Protection” and “Methodologies and Recommendations for Development, Implementation and Reporting Mechanisms of the National Action Plan”, specifically designed to guide public officials in the implementation of the NCAP.
Administration of the President of Georgia NITG provided technical and expert assistance to the Office of the Advisor to the President of Georgia on Integration Issues, one of the primary NITG counterparts with integration policy planning and programming. NITG assistance to the Administration included the provision of a full time expert, responsible for coordinating the integration development works of the Office. NITG also provided the outreach assistance to the Administration, starting with the publishing assistance for the State Policy for Tolerance and Civil Integration, public review meetings, as well as NITG home page – Diversity.Ge, being developed jointly in cooperation with the Administration.
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B. Media Programming
After the Rose Revolution of 2003, the Government promptly introduced several legal changes concerning Georgian Public Broadcasting (GPB) obliging it to devote certain amount of airtime to ethnic minority-related programs as well as to air news programs in ethnic minority languages. The obligation was later increased to a 25% mark of the total budget of the agency. With the solid background for further progressive planning and programming, NITG designed the media component to promote the core values and goals of National Integration and Tolerance in Georgia program through media programming.
Although the major implementation mechanism for NITG was the direct cooperative partnership with the Georgian Public Broadcasting, NITG spanned off and reached out to bigger audiences through radio platforms and the regional TV stations. Cooperation with regional TV entities, besides the attempt to better reach the local/regional audiences, also intended to promote the local media coverage and joint media programming on different levels.
In total, NITG produced 16 993 minutes of air time (283 hours, 12 full days) both on central and regional TV stations (mainly Public Broadcasting), averaging to mean USD 17 per minute on air.
Italian Yard, Weekly Talk Show With the launch of the program NITG started what would become an effective partnership with the GPB. With NITG assistance, GPB prepared and launched weekly talk-show “Italian Yard” (titled after eponymous Tbilisi communal courtyards), the first ever talk show in Georgian media, which was fully devoted to ethnic minority issues. The title of the talk show was later changed to ‘Our Yard’, after the content and structure redesign that the talk show went through.
First show was aired on 2 June, 2007. The aim of this partnership product was to introduce a new standard of reporting on and discussing the minority issues in the Georgian media. An invited US expert was contracted to assist with the design of the talk-show format, to train the talk-show crew and monitor the whole preparation process. In addition, NITG also delivered diversity management trainings for the crew, which was later delivered to various media entities from all over the Georgia.
Talk Show promo campaign: The talk show premiere was accompanied with the special promo campaign, which was attended by more than two thousand ethnic Georgian and ethnic minority citizens of Georgia. Concert was broadcasted live through GPB. Officials from Georgian government, leading CSO representatives, GPB management, Minority NGO leaders and Ombudsman of Georgia attended the festival performance. The promo campaign later became the foundation for the ‘Diversity Festival’, annually celebrated/supported by NITG.
January 2009, new season of the Italian Yard was premiered, after the complete studio renovation and format redesign works. The title of the show was changed to Our Yard. The talk show covered diverse range of topics, related to ethnic/civic integration processes, and the issues of the minority community interest. Regional media problems, NATIONAL INTEGRATION AND TOLERANCE IN GEORGIA 18 The United Nations Association of Georgia
NITG Final Program Report Year 2006-2010 healthcare programs, professional education, minority language courses, unified national admission exams, etc. are few of the nationwide issues that were discussed by the national minorities on the talk-show.
As a part of the original partnership agreement with the Georgian Public Broadcasting, the later took the responsibility to preserve the talk show, in prime time air, for the minimum of next five years after the completion of NITG. This obligation is also put on the Public Broadcasting by NCAP – Action Plan, which included the GPB (First Channel) expenditures on Italian/Our Yard, into the media component of the state action plan. As an additional instrument for securing the further life of the talk show, for the minimum of the negotiated show life-period, UNAG/NITG decided to rest with the ownership of the studio equipment that was purchased for the talk show.
Technical Assistance to GPB: NITG assessed GPB technical needs to develop new Talk Show. List of equipment has been finalized with GPB management and open tender has been announced. Tender committee composed by GPB and NITG personnel, reviewed tender suggestions from 4 Georgian companies and identified the best bid, basing on best combination of following major criterions: a. price, b. quality, c. dates of provision. Contract with selected company has been signed. Finalization of tender according to UNAG and USAID standards, also identified with problems with timing of delivery, first week of April has been set up as a deadline for equipment provision. GPB has undertaken responsibility to devote studio for talk show needs, design and equip with needed decorations and furniture. According to GPB internal technical problems and scarce resources, GPB didn’t meet the deadline to finish studio designing in March. Talk Show crew created by GPB, requested additional trainings and seminars on national minorities issues and extra involvement of international consultant. These was not expected according to NITG scheduling, and taking into consideration the mentioned circumstances, new date for Talk Show airing was set to last week of May.
US Expert Assistance: NITG recruited media producer Stan Matthews, US journalist and media expert for second time (March 19-31, 14 working days) to provide the on-site consultancy to GPB management and producers’ team, in order to develop the new TV Talk Show. Format of Talk Show has been finalized with GPB management and NITG. Earlier rehearsals have been conducted with Talk Show anchor and crew. Training for journalists of GPB regional offices have been delivered. March 29, the Talk-Show presentation was held for NGOs and Minority Council at GPB, followed by discussion and consultations.
GPB Trainings: NITG delivered sets of trainings and seminars to TV Talk Show crew, in order to enhance professionalism and understanding of minority related issues and skills to manage the diverse groups during Talk Show filming. Partners-Georgia delivered intensified trainings to Talk Show crew in diversity management (February 1-3, 8 participants) and Talk Show Facilitation/Moderation (12-14 February, 8 participants). 2 issue based seminars have been organized by NITG for Talk Show crew, oriented on the issues such as: state of national minorities in Georgia and their status, geographical coverage, minority languages, culture, attitudes and historical perspectives, social status, interaction with state and non-state actors, etc. Training have been delivered by Beqa Mindiashvili – Senior Expert from Tolerance Center, Georgian Public Defender’s Office (12 March, 8 participants); Giorgi Sordia – Program officer at European Center for Minority Issues(13 march, 8 participants).
Multiethnic Georgia, Documentary Series Building on successful partnership with GPB on the talk show, NITG funded the development of the documentary series “Multiethnic Georgia”, which included nine TV documentaries on nine ethnic minority groups, and aimed to educate the viewers about NATIONAL INTEGRATION AND TOLERANCE IN GEORGIA 19 The United Nations Association of Georgia
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Documentaries were originally aired several times on GPB, and after receiving the significant number of positive media and public reviews, NITG contracted 12 regional TV stations, to air the documentary movies in the regions and reach out to bigger audiences in each of the regions of Georgia.
Documentaries were also translated into Russian and English languages and published the DVD versions, which were presented to public by June 26, 2008 in Courtyard by Marriot Tbilisi, in parallel to the official signing ceremony of Memorandum between the Public Defender of Georgia and Advisor to the President of Georgia on Integration Issues, which was also supported by NITG.
Talks on Diversity, Radio talk-show NITG supported the weekly talk-show “Talks on Diversity” on Radio Gipa, FM 93,4, aiming to further increase the audience and give more voice to ethnic minority communities, as well as increase the understanding of the rights, culture and traditions of minority groups by the ethnic majority and the general society. The show’s format consists of three elements: discussion, feature, vox pop and musical piece. Topics, covered by the radio program, included culture and traditions of different ethnic groups living in Georgia, national minority theatres, media outlets in minority languages, etc.
Dialogue, regional TV partnership product In order to further promote the cooperation and joint regional media programming on diversity issues, NITG provided financial and technical support to three regional TV companies in Samtskhe-Javakheti, Channel 9, ATV 12 and TV-Parvana. Within the frameworks of the partnership project, total 15 talk-shows, with title – Dialogue, were jointly produced by participating TV companies. The show consisted of two major components: the feature and discussion. Topics included regional cultural centers, Zurab Zhvania School of Public Administration, reforms in the education system, etc. This partnership, pilot in its essence, successfully grew into further collaboration between these TV companies on joint talk shows and other media products.
Diversity Georgia Website Diversity Georgia was developed in cooperation with the Office of the Advisor to the President of Georgia on Civil Integration Issues. Web-resource was launched in October 2008, and serves as a repository of information about diversity issues in Georgia. provides daily updates on current events, including news, government policies, CSO activities, accession to the international treaties, political events, and national legislation; serves as an on-line news magazine for public discussions and free exchange on topical issues; provides information on NITG activities, including trainings, success stories, information from the regions, coalition work, etc.
Diversity Festivals The idea that was born on the promo campaign for the talk show – Italian Yard, was successfully promoted by NITG countrywide. NITG enriched its awareness-raising NATIONAL INTEGRATION AND TOLERANCE IN GEORGIA 20 The United Nations Association of Georgia
NITG Final Program Report Year 2006-2010 campaign by participating in the preparation and implementation of the Interethnic Festival 2008: “Diversity is our Wealth”, which took place in different parts of Georgia and reached out to various communities throughout the country. A month-long festival saw its activities carried out in Akhalkalaki, Marneuli, Gardabani, Gori, and Tbilisi.
Civil Georgia Civil Georgia was used as a complement to NITG work as the civic monitoring tool for political and economic processes in the country. Over the years, Civil.Ge has gathered the public and international trust as of the most reliable news source in Georgia, having provided the timely, unbiased and quality news reporting to its users. With average 70,000 page views per week, Civil Georgia became one of the most important outreach tools for NITG, for promoting the most critical information among its key target audiences.
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C. GRANTS Making
NITG grants component was designed to provide the grant sub-award mechanisms for supporting those initiatives of civil society organizations and minority communities, which would in some way complement the overall mission and work of NITG. The component also aimed to stimulate the cooperation between civil society and the public sector. It also aimed at strengthening the minority NGO capacities on local levels, and developing best practices in addressing the integration related issues. NITG grants component was implemented in partnership with the Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF), former Eurasia Foundation Georgia (EFG).
NITG grants component was administered through three grantsmaking mechanisms – Invited Grants, Open Doors and Micro Grants Mechanism. These grant award mechanisms were developed through consultations with USAID, Government of Georgia, EPF, select civil society organizations, and other stakeholders of NITG grants program.
Invited Grants mechanism: designed for select organizations working in NITG target regions, in order to promote integration through activities aimed at economic, social and cultural integration of the minority regions.
Open Doors mechanism: The mechanism was designed to collect and review innovative proposals, focusing on empowering the public to effectively engage in national dialogue on integration issues and promoting the increased sense of civic unity among the citizens of Georgia.
Micro Grants mechanism: the mechanism was created as follow-up of the Stronger Communities initiative, implemented by NITG. The initiative supported the institutional strengthening of developing minority NGOs, through trainings in management, leadership, advocacy and diversity management. The mechanism was specially designed for the participant NGOs, to further support their institutional development.
Aiming at mobilizing the civil society resources in support of the implementation, further advancement and monitoring of the Concept and the Action Plan, NITG has awarded the grant applications that correlated with the goals and missions of the Concept and Action Plan, as well as NITG overall mission, and contributed to the long-term and sustainable tolerance building and civic integration of ethnic majority communities in Georgia.
Total USD 202,390.81 was awarded for sub-projects through the grants program of NITG administered by Eurasia Partnership Foundation (from total sub-grant spending of NITG worth of USD 1,034,932, which included Georgian Public Broadcasting, Freedom House, Partners Georgia and other similar service source-outs). Following innovative projects and outputs were secured through the Grants Program, individually having contributed to the overall progress of NITG program (* actual project titles were adapted from Georgian to English language context).
Enhanced Decision Making in Minority Regions Recipient: GFSIS • Budget: USD 35149,16 • Timeframe: 12/2/2009 – 5/31/2010
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Project awarded to the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (GFSIS), which proposed an innovative approach targeting the enhancement of the public policy decision making in Samtskhe-Javakheti region, traditionally populated by ethnic Armenian community.
Offensive Terminology in the Media Recipient: MDF • Budget: USD 24 183.27 • Timeframe: 12/1/2009 – 5/31/2010 A project awarded to the Media Development Fund, an agency working on researching and promoting the professional media reporting practices. The project researched and analyzed the ethnic minority offensive terminology in Georgian media, and developed the relevant package of recommendations for government and media attention.
Support for Non-Georgian Language Schools Recipient: CCIIR • Budget: USD 44035,9 • Timeframe: 12/2/2009 – 5/31/2010 The project was awarded to the Center for Civil Integration and Inter-Ethnic Relations, one of the competent civil society organizations, working in minority integration issues. The project aimed to design the support mechanisms and tools for non-Georgian language schools, for their better adaptation to the multi-lingual education process.
Higher Education and Civic Knowledge Recipient: ALPE • Budget: USD 27545 • Timeframe: 12/7/2009 – 6/15/2010 Project awarded to the ALPE Foundation, one of the leading civil society organizations in Georgia. Awarded project aimed at promoting the higher education and civic knowledge for supporting the civil integration of the graduates of non-Georgian secondary schools.
Participatory Budgeting Recipient: LI • Budget: USD 36539,6 • Timeframe: 20.10.2008 – 30.06.2009 The project awarded to the Liberty Institute, one of the frontrunners of Georgian civil society sector. Participatory Budgeting – The Tool for Effective Integration project aimed to support the promotion of integration of minority and disadvantaged groups through good governance initiative in secondary schools of Georgia.
Enhanced Democratic Governance within Ethnic Communities Recipient: ZZhSPA • Budget: USD 33717 • Timeframe: 01.09.2008 – 20.05.2009 Project awarded to the Zurab Zhvania School of Public Administration, first ever ethnic minority educational institution that was established to deliver the quality education to the young professionals belonging to national minorities. The project train and provided internships in public institutions across Georgia for more than 70 graduates of the school, which came from local administrations or municipalities from Azerbaijani, Armenian and other ethnic community areas.
Female Ethnic Minority Socio-Economic Activism Recipient: MRC • Budget: USD 19963 • Timeframe: 01.06.2007 – 10.12.2007 The grant was awarded to the Multiethnic Resource Centre for Civic Education Development (MRC). The project produced Business Manual for Small Entrepreneurs in Russian, and provided training to totally 40 Azeri and Armenian women, in studying the
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NITG Final Program Report Year 2006-2010 basics of small business development. Project also provided internship opportunities to minority female representatives in successful business enterprises.
Step to tolerance Recipient: CDCI • Budget: USD 2996,15 • Timeframe: 24.11.2008 – 31.03.2009 Project was awarded to the Center of Democracy and Civil Integration, which aimed to develop the intercultural awareness and facilitate greater tolerance and understanding of the needs of ethnic minorities in Tbilisi. 30 students selected from 5 schools of Tbilisi were delivered seminars and trainings in tolerance, human rights, multiculturalism and religious and cultural diversity. New website was launched to open a forum for the exchange of ideas. Essay competition was also organized on the issues of tolerance, which helped the students to develop capacities for independent judgment, critical thinking and ethical reasoning.
Increasing the levels of tolerance and integration; Recipient: IUKK • Budget: USD 2445 • Timeframe: 01.10.2008 – 15.02.2009 The award was made to the Interethnic Unity of Kvemo Kartli, which implemented the project that involved: awareness raising on tolerance and integration, cultural activities, such as theater scenario development and stage performances in minority villages, seminars and photo exhibition on ethnic and religious tolerance, etc. the project also involved the mini surveyed to determine the level of interethnic frictions and cases of joint interethnic public events in the target region of the project.
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D. Training and Education
Designed and implemented in partnership with Partners Georgia, the training and education component was designed to deliver the diversity management skills to the target audiences of the program. The component also aimed to strengthen the minority civil society organizations and other interest groups, through delivering the necessary skills for institutional development and advanced lobbying and advocacy skills, as well as to transfer the diversity management training skills to training institutions and individual trainers in Georgia, for incorporation of received skills in their own working agenda.
Excluding the training interventions provided by NITG sub-grants, total 32 trainings were delivered directly by NITG, to total 552 individuals throughout the lifetime of the program. Training beneficiaries included the central and regional TV, radio and printed media journalists, producers, non-governmental organizations, civic leaders from minority communities, local government representatives, directors of bilingual schools, trainers, etc.
* For detailed information on trainings see Attachment AD2 and AD3
Civic Education Clubs, Training Platform Following the original mandate of NITG, Civic Education Clubs were launched, aiming at strengthening the local grassroots civil society organizations, which are tasked to lead further civic/ethnic integration related on grounds activities, implement civic education activities under the sub-component, and engage in civic monitoring of NCAP. Two local partner agencies were selected for leading the Clubs in Samtskhe-Javakheti and Kvemo Kartli regions: Union of Democrat Meskhs and the Civic Initiative Fund, in respective order.
Seminars and Conferences: The clubs were designed to serve as the platform for providing the quality civic education to local populations through awareness raising meetings and seminars, on diverse array of topics such as local self-governance, minority and women’s rights in Europe, analytical journalism, project writing, tolerance and citizenship, leadership and gender balance, observation of local elections, etc.
Trainings: The civic education clubs also served as the training ground for local civil society and grassroots organizations, providing the training opportunities in organizational development, diversity management, conflict management. Young professionals involved in Civic Education Centers have also created several NGOs and received grants on projects aimed at improving local public policy decision-making.
Youth Initiative Group: Youth Initiative Group, established by the participants of the club, received the funding from the state run fund - Civic Institutionalism Development Fund, for establishing the debate clubs in Akhalkalaki municipality. The Clubs will liaise between the self-governance bodies and ordinary citizens to foster dialogue about the problems faced by local communities.
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Study Tours: On November 9-14, in frames of CSO Development/Civic Education sub- component the study tour was organized in Tbilisi for 22 members of Civic Education Centers. In the Parliament of Georgia the study tour was hosted by the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee Akaki Minashvili, along with Majoritarian MPs from Kvemo Kartli and Samtskhe-Javakheti regions. The participants were introduced to new legislative proposals concerning minorities, including the initiative of simplifying national entrance examination procedure for Azerbaijani and Armenian language speaking citizens of Georgia. At the Office of the State Minister for Reintegration Issues the Deputy Minister Elene Tevdoradze explained the ongoing work of the Ministry in coordinating the implementation process of the National Concept and Action Plan for Tolerance and Civil Integration. In addition, the study tour participants have met with the Deputy Ombudsman Tata Khuntsaria and head of the Tolerance Center Beka Mindiashvili who presented the work of the Council of National Minorities and the Council of Religions under the Ombudsman’s Office.
Meetings with leaders: Meetings were also held with representatives of local and international NGOs, higher education institutions and the Public Broadcaster. The regional officer for the Caucasus of the European Center for Minority Issues Tom Trier spoke about the activities of newly created Javakheti Citizens’ Forum, small grants program and other activities. At the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, and Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development programs related to national minorities and prospects of future cooperation with Civic Education Centers were on top of the agenda. The study tour participants have been given opportunity to learn more about Georgian language programs for prospective national minority students from the head of the Quality Assurance Board at the Ilia Chavchavadze State University Simon Janashia, and discuss the Public Broadcaster’s news programs in minority languages and talk-show “Our Yard” with the Chief Producer of National TV/Radio Programs Nino Khidasheli, express their concerns and present recommendations.
Practical Skills Training: Educational courses in “Business Georgian” and basic computer skills have been developed and offered to representatives of Kvemo Kartli and Samtskhe-Javakheti regions.
Diversity Management Manual NITG developed the training manual on Diversity Management, the textbook for the Diversity Management, developed by Partners Georgia for NITG purposes. The manual addresses the diversity context, positive and negative sides of diversity, individual and group identities, values of multicultural societies and social organization models, stereotypes in the multicultural society, diversity management models, etc.
The manual was later translated into Russian language as well, and published as a Georgian-Russian manual/guide for Diversity Management. Publication was disseminated in civic education clubs and bilingual public schools, as well as other stakeholders of the program for further usage in the relevant contexts.
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For ensuring the successful programming and delivery of the diversity management trainings, the trainers of NITG training partner agency – Partners Georgia, were delivered the original training for trainers in diversity management by international expert, bringing the best global practices and experiences. This training for trainers became the foundation for the development of the Diversity Management Manual.
Diversity Management Training: Within the frameworks of the NITG program, Partners Georgia organized a four days training of trainers (TOT) program for the trainers of Partners- Georgia, personnel involved in implementation of the NITG program and representatives of partner organizations on 17-20 October, 2006. Training covered the Diversity Management issues. The trainer for the program has been selected from the Eastern European NGO, called Partners for Democratic Change – Slovakia (PDCS) - Mr. Dusan Ondrusek (Director and PDCS), who together with his excellent training skills, practices the unique experience of organizing the integration and tolerance programs and initiatives in Slovakia.
Diversity Management Training Trainings in Diversity Management were delivered throughout the lifetime of the program as an accompanying process of the program implementation, targeting the diverse target audiences in and from different localities, communities and sectors, including public, civil society, media and government agencies and ethnic minority communities.
Excluding the training interventions that focused on other issue areas and skills, but included diversity management as a sub-module, total 13 diversity management trainings were delivered by NITG/PG to the central and regional TV, radio and printed media journalists, producers, non-governmental organizations, civic leaders from minority communities, local government representatives, directors of bilingual schools, trainers, etc.
Diversity Management Training for Trainers NITG/PG delivered the Training for Trainers, following the original design of the program component, which envisaged transferring the diversity management training skills to training institutions and individual trainers in Georgia, and facilitating the incorporation of received skills in their own working agenda. TOT participants were further provided the follow-up workshops and retreats, to further consolidate and update the training skills and diversity management training modules, and collect the feedback on their performance in this field.
Diversity Management Trainers Network Created after the Diversity Management Training for Trainers, the network involved the NITG/PG trainee teachers, and encouraged/facilitated the cascade trainings in diversity management in different localities and communities. Totally 24 such trainings were conducted, benefiting total 395 participants.
Trainings for Media Partners Georgia, delivered the trainings for regional media representatives of printed, radio and TV journalists from different regions of Georgia (Samtskhe-Javakheti, Kvemo Kartli, Guria, Samegrelo, Kakheti, Adjara) to advance their knowledge and understanding NATIONAL INTEGRATION AND TOLERANCE IN GEORGIA 27 The United Nations Association of Georgia
NITG Final Program Report Year 2006-2010 of the diversity context, positive and negative sides of diversity, individual and group identities, values of multicultural societies and social organization models, stereotypes in the multicultural society, diversity management models, etc.
GPB Training: Diversity Management trainings were delivered to journalists and producers from the GPB, in order to enhance their skills of addressing the integration and tolerance related issues.
Talk Show Facilitation/Moderation Training: PG developed and delivered a special training program in Facilitation/Moderation of Talk shows for the GPB journalists, hosts and producers, involved in production of the talk show.
NITG also supported the Office of the Public Defender with delivering the trainings to national minorities and journalists in international law on human and minority rights (20 participants). Within the frameworks of the same support partnership with the Office of the Public Defender, national and regional TV, radio and printed media journalists were also delivered the trainings in ethical journalism and media diversity (25 participants).
Trainings for Local Government On the initial stage of the program implementation, diversity management trainings were delivered to the representatives of the local government and self-governments, as an attempt to secure the local official support to and relevant understanding of the integration processes. Total 28 local government representatives were trained in diversity management, and were equipped with the adequate knowledge of diversity and minorities issues, and received the improved skills of addressing the minority related issues.
Trainings for NITG Grants Component Applicants Diversity management trainings were also delivered to the representatives of the civil society organizations that applied to NITG Grants Component. Participation in the training was held as a required procedure for the grant application process. Such a requirement intended to advance the understanding of integration and ethnic/cultural diversity related issues by the applicant organizations, the civil society actors in integration and tolerance issue areas, no matter the outcomes of the application review process.
Organizational Development Trainings Following up on the proved need of supporting the strong support to the development of the grassroots organizations that would be interested in working on integration issues, and at the same time capable to undertake the activities that would be in some way supporting the development, implementation and monitoring of NCAP, NITG launched the Stronger Communities Initiative, which intended to support the institutional strengthening of developing minority NGOs. Initiative included the cycle of trainings in management, leadership, advocacy and diversity management, which were delivered by Partners Georgia.
As a practical and supportive follow-up of the initiative, NITG specially designed the micro grants component for the participant organizations, providing the grant
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Gender Awareness Training Excluding all other trainings, where the gender equality and empowerment issues were mainstreamed, NITG/PG delivered two trainings in gender awareness to the civic leaders from Samtskhe-Javakheti and Kvemo Kartli regions, the later being especially sensitive with this issue area (total 40 people were trained).
Training for Minority School Directors Partners-Georgia organized and conducted Management Skills training for bilingual public school directors. The need for this training was strongly articulated by the participants of the ToT retreat workshop, organized as the follow up of the Diversity Management ToT. Total 40 directors/principals of bilingual schools were delivered the trainings.
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NITG Final Program Report Year 2006-2010 E. Research and Analysis
The research component of the NITG was designed to help determine the targets of integration and tolerance programming and development processes, as well as provide the inputs for guiding the policy document development process. Research component was implemented in partnership with the Applied Research Company and the Freedom House Europe, together with other local research organizations and think-tanks.
Research outcomes throughout all micro and macro research interventions of NITG, proved of crucial importance for the success of the Government policy on minority integration, as it provided the most valuable information, needed for the proper direction of NCAP development process, as well as efficient coordination of its further implementation and monitoring processes.
Research component also helped determine the program benchmarks and indicators, the achievement indicator matrix for NCAP, as well as the foundations for its monitoring mechanisms, which were also developed under the expert guidance of NITG partnership with the Freedom House Europe.
Integration Assessment Survey Report The baseline document for NITG planning and program design was developed in cooperation with the Freedom House – EU. The document helped to reveal the by-then status quo of integration and tolerance in Georgia and provided crucial information for further planning and development of the policy outputs. Research methodology, indicators and benchmarks were developed by the NITG research team and Freedom House Europe. Report was carried out with help of BCG Research, the Institute of Social Research (ISR), Applied Research Company (ARC), Chavchavadze University and ECMI. The report’s main findings in terms of research, statistical data, integration status quo and basic attitudes of the general and minority populations in Georgia regarding the processes of integration and tolerance were soon presented to the public.
Generalized Tolerance Index NITG annually updates the Generalized Tolerance Index (GTI), a focus group research which broadly categorizes the various segments of the population as “isolated” (‘enclosed’ within their own ethnic, religious, etc. group), “tolerant” (aware of the other groups and professing ‘live-and-let-live’ attitude) and “integrated” (the highest level of tolerance respecting other traditions, feeling respect by them as well, and actively seeking further knowledge about other groups). GTI was developed in cooperation with Freedom House Europe.
Monitoring of NCAP Implementation: NITG supported the cooperation between the Civic Integration and Tolerance Council at the President of Georgia and the Ethnic Minority Council at the Office of the Public Defender of Georgia. By the end of the first year of NCAP implementation, CITC approached the Ethnic Minority Council with the request to monitor the National Concept
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NITG Final Program Report Year 2006-2010 and Action Plan for Tolerance and Integration implementation and develop further recommendations for improvement. Throughout February-May, the monitoring group of Ethnic Minority CSO’s conducted the assessment of GoG programs in 2009, reported the findings and developed relevant recommendations. Report was presented on the meeting of relevant Ministries and Ethnic Council Members, the meeting held under the auspices of the President’s Administration and Ombudsman of Georgia on June 28/29 of 2010. CITC will present recommendations and finding to the Government of Georgia by the end of 2010 for further processing. As a result of the support, the very first experience and capacity of monitoring and reporting the NCAP progress was secured. Ties and cooperation practices were also further strengthened between the Ethnic Minority Council, the assembly of most of ethnic minority communities in Georgia, and the Civic Integration and Tolerance Council, the primary state consultative body in the issue area.
* Full texts of these highlighted research outputs, as well as other research and analytical products, see Annex E.
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Key Achievements
Development and Adoption of NCAP by the Government: the major accomplishment of not only the program itself and the civil society at large, but the Government of Georgia with regard to integration programming. The document provides the unified strategic vision of the Government accompanied by a five years action plan directed towards stimulating the ethnic minority cultural, social, economic and political integration in country life. One of the most important and unique achievement of the process was to provide up to 90% of Action Plan funding from the state budget of Georgia. Worth noting is the multilateral character of the process, where apart from the government institutions, the Public Defender’s offices and councils (Minority Council, Tolerance Council, etc.) were fully engaged in the process (60% of recommendation package, provided by PDO were incorporated into the policy and action plan documents).
Inter-Governmental Working Group: inter-governmental cooperation platform that included the representation of all Ministries that had a certain stake in integration policy development, became the ideal development ground for successful finalization of the policy and action plan formulation and process, and even more importantly, consolidation of inter-governmental and inter-sectoral collaboration on integration programming and implementation.
Civic monitoring mechanism over NCAP at PDO: creation of an innovative monitoring mechanism, which would bring the different entities from different levels of governance, as well as the minority communities, on board for collaborative monitoring of NCAP implementation process, is another innovative accomplishment of NITG, with proper dues going to Freedom House Europe, as well as to exemplary commitment and contribution from the government officials. Leadership over NCAP monitoring process by the PDO National Minority Council was a pre-targeted result of cooperation and continuous dialogue between the Minority Council and the CITC at the Administration of the President of Georgia, triggered by NITG.
Mechanisms for Dialogue between government and minorities: creation of a continuous platform for dialogue between the state and non-state stakeholders, where all parties are given the perfect opportunity to introduce, advocate and promote their programs and ideas, is another definitional accomplishment of NITG. Annual consultative meetings and conferences, with the first one pioneered by NITG with the 2009-2010 national conference, proved to be another effective mechanism for promotion of national dialogue and decision-making on ethnic minority related issues.
Access to Elections: NITG left the major footprint in the electoral practice of Georgia, when for the first time national minorities were able to vote in their native languages. In some way a standalone intervention contributed to the wider change, for which NITG would plan its ambitions - significant change in political culture in Georgia, where already the political communities started incorporating the integration issues in their public policy discussions and planning.
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Bilingual Education: the very first pilot of bilingual education models, initiated by Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia. Having totally 390 university entrants through this pilot initiative, NITG further strengthened its positions in the frontline of supporting the innovative and effective policies, related to minority integration processes.
Italian Yard: the first ever media product in Georgian media, which was fully devoted to ethnic minority issues, which offered the first platform for further minority media programming throughout Georgia, as well as provided the first ever opportunity for national minority communities to discuss the issues of their concern through central television. According to the agreement between UNAG and GPB, the show will run for minimum three years after the completion of NITG. The agreement is also backed by the Action Plan of NCAP.
Dialogue, Joint Regional Media Programming: first ever case of collaboration between the three main media entities in Samtskhe-Javakheti region (traditionally densely populated by ethnic Armenian minorities). The intention of NITG was to create the success case of joint programming by regional TV stations. The impact was especially evident with Akhaltsikhe local TV company, which was practically re-launched during the cooperation with NITG and is currently making significant development progress, having launched number of new services and programs.
TV Documentaries: another pioneer product in Georgian media history, when the culture, history and life of ethnic minority communities were produced and aired through central and regional TV stations countrywide. Documentaries aimed to educate the ethnic majority (ethnic Georgians), as well as the ethnic minorities themselves, about the culture and everyday life of ethnic minorities communities in Georgia, and their contribution to the cultural and democratic development of Georgia and its statehood.
Civic Education Clubs: NITG invested in training the future local agents/actors of integration processes in Samtskhe-Javakheti and Kvemo Kartli region, a very important process, necessary for sustaining the achieved results, and advancing their implementation on grounds. Education process resulted in inception of new grassroots organizations, with several of them already having secured the fundraising success, autonomously and/or successfully employed with different local organizations.
Diversity Management Manual: the textbook for the Diversity Management, which addresses the diversity context, positive and negative sides of diversity, individual and group identities, values of multicultural societies and social organization models, stereotypes in the multicultural society, diversity management models, etc.
Diversity Management Trainers Network: created as a result of the Diversity Management Training for Trainers, the network involved 24 NITG/PG trainee teachers, and delivered the cascade trainings in diversity management in different localities and communities. Totally 24 such trainings were conducted, benefiting total 395 participants.
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Civil Georgia: Civil Georgia was used as a complement to NITG work as the civic monitoring tool for political and economic processes in the country. Over the years, Civil.Ge has gathered the public and international trust as of the most reliable news source in Georgia, having provided the timely, unbiased and quality news reporting to its users. With average 150,000 users per month, Civil Georgia became one of the most important outreach tools for NITG, for promoting the most critical information among its key target audiences.
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NITG Final Program Report Year 2006-2010 Recommendations for future assistance
Although NITG outputs were designed in a way that would help secure the most of the sustainability available, further comprehensive follow-up and sustainable intervention for further advancement of achieved results, is crucial. Most of NITG outputs were the first- time developments, and the first time introductions of the Georgian society to the products of such type and content.
Engaging the minority constituents in the design and implementation of the state and civil society programming remains the main priority. Beyond the discussions with the government and non-government constituents that have a specific stake in the integration policy-making and implementation (Presidential Council for Civic Integration, Georgian Public Broadcasting, Public Defender of Georgia, Ministries of Education, Interior, Justice, Reintegration, etc.), UNAG has been in the constant process of consultations with the leaders of the national minority communities and civil society organizations, on how to best realize the inter-sectoral potential to further advance the process of civic integration in Georgia. Key elements were identified:
1. Refine the key ingredients of multilateral and multilevel cooperation, in terms of further support for collaboration of public, civil society, and other institutions. 2. Refresh the minority community capacity and enthusiasm to engage in social dialogue and policy advancement, development and implementation. 3. Integrate multisectoral perspectives in Georgian media programming
Further development and implementation of NCAP Support further improvement and advancement of the National Concept and Action Plan for Tolerance and Civic Integration, key government document that sets the government priorities for civil integration and allocates necessary resources from the state budget.
Further operational support to the Presidential Council and other government institutions that have certain stakes in civic integration processes:
1. Although the coordination and monitoring duties are effectively divided between two government bodies (State Minister’s Office for Reintegration and Civic Integration and Tolerance Council at the President of Georgia), both institutions can be regarded as temporary homes for this processes (based on previous experience of NITG). It is essential to determine a permanent institutional home for ethnic minority/civic integration related issues that is more adequate to the functions of inter governmental coordination (such as the Administration of the President of Georgia, Office of the Prime Minister or the National Security Council of Georgia). Respectively, further counseling and assistance to GoG will be necessary for a durable solution of the issue. 2. Provide necessary expertise support to the Presidential Council for Integration, established by the President of Georgia to advance the civic integration issues as one of the key political priorities of the country
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3. Provide further technical support to the intergovernmental Working Group, established to enhance the inter-ministerial collaboration on national minority integration issues 4. Further support to the Ministry of Education to further increase the national minority access to the higher education institutions.
Further support of the collaboration between state and non-state actors 1. Provide further technical and content support for annual coordination meetings between the governmental and non-governmental counterparts for civic integration policy development and programming 2. Support the government and minority communities to advance the formation of consultative councils at relevant ministries, as envisaged by NCAP 3. Further provide internship opportunities for minority young professionals to experience the public administration at relevant ministries of Georgia, and thus further the NCAP agenda of increasing the national minority representation in public administration.
Georgian Roma community Provide technical support to the civil registry of Georgia to ensure full registration of ethnic Roma communities
Further Minority Access/Inclusion in Elections Further technical and content support to the increase of minority access to upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections in 2013, through translation and publishing of elections materials into ethnic minority languages.
Further Growth of Minority Community Capacities Support further growth of the national minority community capacities to monitor and advocate the national minority/civic integration policies and state programs, and further improve the minority community enthusiams to engage in public dialogue on minority related issues.
Support the minority community to mobilize for collaborative monitoring and advocacy of the state strategy for integration Advance the platform and instruments for annual reporting on NCAP Monitoring, and development of recommendations package, by national minority groups as key participants of the integration policy development and implementation process.
Extension of civic education services and opportunities for minority youths. Expand the network of civic education clubs to other minority populated cities and regions, and reach out to more minority populations and youths to deliver the practical trainings and other education opportunities, that will help the local youths to advance their lives and better integrate in the social and cultural life of the country.
Student exchange programs between regions
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Launch the student exchange programs between the public schools from different regions (ethnic majority and ethnic minority), and facilitate the exchange programs for secondary school students among the host schools and families (ethnic minority to ethnic Georgian school/family, and vice versa).
Celebration of Georgia’s Diversity Further advance the tradition, set by UNAG/NITG, to celebrate the cultural, lingual and ethnic diversity of Georgia, through annual diversity festivals and other cultural events that support the exchange of cultures and further promotion of cultural identities of all ethnic minority communities in Georgia.
Further Improvement of Diversity Media Programming Further improve the access of national minority communities to Media, and further promote the countrywide TV discussions through national and local TV stations.
Daily broadcasting of news in minority languages Provide necessary technical support to the Public Broadcasting of Georgia to deliver the daily news in minority languages, through local TV companies
Further improvement of regional/minority media reporting Assist the regional media representatives/journalists in minority regions to practice skills in news development and reporting, through intensive and full-time hands-on training at the premises of the Public Broadcaster.
Further Improvement of weekly talk-show ‘Our Yard’ Support to further development of the weekly talk show on minority issues, focusing on attracting the ethnic Georgian viewers to the show, and better promotion of minority cultural heritage, through more up-to-date formatting and programming of the show.
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NITG Final Program Report Year 2006-2010 Financial Narrative
Review of NITG Financial/Administrative management practice
United States Agency for International Development awarded UN Association of Georgia cooperative agreement for implementation of National Integration and Tolerance in Georgia program in July 3, 2006 with total budget in amount of 2.7 million USD. According to the request of USAID UNAG went through redesigning process of its organizational policies and procedures to fit requirements of donor agency. UNAG policies and procedures were audited by USAID assessment team twice during first quarter of year 1; Assessments were conducted in the beginning of redesigning process and after its completion, to make sure that financial and administrative policies and procedures are on place and effective. Compliance of UNAG policies/procedures with USAID requirements were confirmed by USAID approved international audit companies in 2007, 2008, 2009 - UBC International and 2010 - GACC.
UNAG redesigned and/or developed all organizational policies, procedures and forms - Financial Management/Accounting, Grants Management and Human Resource Management in compliance with USAID standards. Along with financial management/procurement and administrative procedures UNAG manuals include: USAID standard provisions and requirements on Prohibition on Terrorism Financing, Non-Discrimination, disability, conflict of interest, non- partisan, anti harassment, ethics etc.
UNAG established an adequate accounting system for tracking expenses and revenues by projects and funding sources, to produces data for preparation of all necessary reports: monthly financial reports, budget vs. actual and etc. for all projects and funding sources. Since July 2006, UNAG was submitting monthly and quarterly reports to USAID on NITG program in full compliance with USAID requirements. All UNAG expenses and revenues are attested with necessary supporting documentation in compliance with UNAG policies and procedures.
UNAG established strong internal control system with proper segregation of duties, which allows ensuring that all requests for payments are adequately reviewed and approved prior to commitment.
UNAG uses double control mechanism in its financial management none of employees has personal authority to access organizations funds or solely authorize any payments. At least three responsible persons verification/approval is required to precede payment.
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UNAG maintains inventory list for its assets with necessary detailed information, list is reviewed and updated on regular basis to ensure safety and proper usage of equipment. All assets are properly numbered and marked.
UNAG developed and redesigned its Grants Management system – manual, agreements, reporting forms, to fully comply with USAID standards. Under NITG program UNAG awarded and operated sub-grants in total amount $ 1,034,932USD. To follow GA and GM Manual requirements is mandatory for all UNAG sub-grantees.
UNAG audited financial statements can be found on UNAG official website http://www.una.ge/eng/financialstatementsnew.php
UNAG Policies and Regulations (Personnel and Administration Manual, Grands Management Manual, Finance and Procurement Manual, UNAG Gender Policy Manual) can be found on UNAG official website http://www.una.ge/eng/policiesandregulations.php
NITG CA Funds Review
Under NITG project USAID awarded UNAG Cooperative Agreement in total amount of 2,700,000.00 USD. See approved initial budget below.
Budget Line Amount Personnel $ 543,423 Fringe Benefits & Allowances $ 11,540 Travel & Per Diem $ 19,500 Supplies & Equipment $ 41,990 Contractual STTA $ 18,800 Other Direct Costs $ 574,770 Sub-agreements $ 1,489,977 Total $ 2,700,000
On August 6, 2007 USAID approved additional funding of $ 55,269.00 to UNAG for internet news resource Civil Georgia www.civil.ge .
On April 7, 2010 USAID approved NITG budget for year 4 - $750,000.00 USD and final total revised budget $ 2,343,219 USD.
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As of July 2, 2010 under NITG project UNAG spent 2,302,811 USD. Budget Line Amount Personnel $ 660,084 Fringe Benefits & Allowances $ 13,152 Travel & Per Diem $ 6,571 Supplies & Equipment $ 46,801 Contractual STTA $ 4,389 Other Direct Costs $ 395,230 Sub-agreements $ 1,034,932 NICRA (19.95%) * $ 141,651 Total $ 2,302,811
* ICR budget line was not included in NITG original budget. On July 31, 2009 USAID concluded Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (NICRA) with UNAG with rate at 19.95 percent. Budget line reflected in the chart represents expenses as indirect costs only for the year 4.
Unspent balance as of July 2, 2010 is 40,408 USD.
UNAG costs share to the project in form of an in-kind contribution were $ 388,431 versus budgeted $ 134,130 USD.
Detailed breakdown of costs share: Source Period Amount Confirmed by Georgian Public July 2006 – June $ 46,720 Audit Report Broadcasting 2007 Georgian Public July 2007 – June $ 256,110 Audit Report Broadcasting 2008 Georgian Public July 2008 – June $ 85,601 Audit Report Broadcasting 2009
Subtotal amount of expenditures and in-kind contribution under NITG project is 2,691,242 USD.
In-kind contribution percentage is 14.43 %.
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UNAG spent $ 1,034,932 USD under NITG project sub-grant budget line.
Grantee Amount Eurasia Foundation $ 277,000 Partners Georgia $ 231,197 Georgian Public Broadcasting $ 219,876 Freedom House Europe $ 90,095 Ministry of Education and Science $ 40,233 Union of Democrat Meskhs $ 83,953 Civic Integration Fund $ 37,178 Georgian Institute of Public Affairs $ 27,830 Ombudsman of Georgia $ 27,570
NITG supported the operations of Civic Integration and Tolerance Council at the President of Georgia and State Ministers Office on Reintegration Issues with total amount $60,200 USD.
NITG supported Central Election Commission in form of in kind contribution total $20,044 USD (translation services, printing).
Separate bank deposit account accumulated interest $2,892.73 USD.
Detailed audited NITG financial reports of 2006-2010 attached to this report as hard copies.
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NITG Final Program Report Year 2006-2010 Attachments
Annex A: Outputs/deliverables produced within the frameworks of the Policy Component.
AA1: National Concept and Action Plan for Tolerance and Civic Integration AA2: State Policy on Tolerance and Civil Integration (hard copy) AA3: Georgian and International Legal Norms on Minority Rights Protection (hard copy) AA4: Methodologies and Recommendations for Development, Implementation and Reporting Mechanisms of the National Action Plan (hard copy) AA5: FCNM Country Report (hard copy)
Annex B: Outputs and deliverables developed within the frameworks of the Media Component. Attachments include the media product content, participants and other sheets. Documentaries DVDs and other physical materials are attached only hard copies.
AB1: Italian/Our Yard Talk Show Content and Participants AB2: NITG Media Summary AB3: Media Monitoring Report
Annex C: Outputs/deliverables produced within the frameworks of the Grants Component.
AC1: NITG sub-awards AC2: NITG sub-grant publications (hard copies)
Annex D: Outputs/deliverables produced within the frameworks of the Policy Component.
AD1: Diversity Management Manual AD2: List of NITG/PG Trainings, providing the basic information about the trainings delivered by NITG (dates, location, participants, sex, etc.) AD3: List of the trainings delivered by the Diversity Management Trainers Network, providing the basic information about the trainings (dates, location, participants, sex, etc.)
Annex E: Outputs/deliverables produced within the frameworks of the Policy Component.
AE1: Integration Assessment Survey Report, 2007 (hard copy) AE2: Integration Assessment Survey Report, 2008-2009 (hard copy) AE3: Generalized Tolerance Index Reports (hard copy) AE4: NCAP Implementation Monitoring/Assessment Report (hard copy)
Annex F: Financial Narrative, NITG
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