People in Need - Support of social inclusion of disabled youth in Georgia, 2015–2017

Project is focused on improving the process of social inclusion of disabled youth. It reacts on current needs of Georgia formulated as government and relevant ministry priorities. In Georgia social inclusion of the disabled persons started receiving more political attention in the context of need to unify the national and international standards of care for disabled persons. Moreover, disabled youth finishing their education belongs to the age group most affected by unemployment.

Project continues and complements to the state effort to coordinate action of the individual ministries lacking so far good communication channels. Project strives for results mainly on the national level. The core activity of the project is to build capacity of the state institutions and facilitate their cooperation among themselves and with the nongovernmental sector. This aims to improve the support provided to handicap youth through education and employment services. New methods and services will be tested to facilitate stronger inclusion of the disabled youth into formal and non-formal education and enhanced their employability chances.

Caritas CR - Improving of health and social care accessibility for people with disabilities

The project is focusing on the people with disabilities, who struggle against discrimination, social stigma and very often they have no equal access to health and social care services due to various determinants. The project assumes interdisciplinary approach to address the issue of accessibility in both health and social care field.

It focuses on the right to healthcare since health is one of the most important factors for normal functioning of a person; raising awareness and informing PWDs about their rights and available opportunities in health and social care through hotline, information campaign; further, engaging practitioner social workers to cope with individual cases of assistance aiming at enhancing social inclusion of PWDs.

Project will also address the improvement of quality of medical services through education of Primary health personnel on the issues of disability, ethics and related rights in order to overcome discrimination at medical institutions frequently faced by PWDs, to facilitate relationship between medical personnel and PWDs and to enhance delivery of quality service to PWDs.

Besides PWDs, project concentrates on medical personnel (primary health care) and social workers. Raising awareness of medical personnel will help to improve their capability to support social inclusion of PWDs and to promote the equal access to health and social care. Other target groups of the project are students and lectures of Department of Family Medicine in TSMU, the organizations focusing on PWDs issues (civic associations, governmental institutions, etc.), and citizens of Tbilisi, Zugdidi, Telavi and their surroundings.

CARE Czech Republic - Increasing quality and work opportunities for women with disabilities in Georgia

The aim of the project is that women with disabilities are benefiting from increased utilization of employment and income generating opportunities in three target municipalities of Georgia (Samtredia, Abasha, Senaki). It will be reached through the identification of their priority needs. An Action plan focusing on the needs is going to be presented to the most relevant local authorities. In frame of the project, 9 ramps will be built, so that the target group gets access to a total number of 9 public institutions and offices. Capacities of public servants, targeted women and other stakeholders will be increased, so they have a better knowledge of rights and needs of the target groups. Women with disabilities will be integrated into the CIC existing program and separate criteria and activities will be designed.