Horizonti Foundation Announcements

Organizational Development Program Consultations

Organizational Development Program of the Horizonti Foundation offers following consultations and forms of services.

Founding, registration of an NGO (registered union, foundation) and legislative issues.

Consultation Clients:
•  Newly founded NGOs
•  Initiative Groups
•  Established NGOs
•  International Organizations

Consultation Issues:
•  History of NGO development, idea and importance of NGO
•  Founding the NGO
•  Organization statute
•  Registration procedure
•  Legislative requirement0s

Consultation Clients:
•  Newly founded NGOs
•  Established NGOs
•  International (foreign) Organizations

Consultation Issues:
•  Discussion of the existing structure of the organization
•  Defining the institutional level of the organization
•  Identification of actual problems, relevancy with the legislation
•  Discussing future ways of structural development and different models
•  Identification of Board functions
•  Criteria for selection of Board members
•  Functions of governing and executive bodies in the organization
•  Their authorities and responsibilities
•  The role of the director in the organization

Strategic Planning in NGOs

Consultation Clients:
•  Newly founded NGOs
•  Established NGOs
•  International Organizations

Consultation Issues and Forms of Services:
•  Presenting the management of the organization the technology of strategic planning process
•  Facilitation of actual strategic planning process for individual organizations
•  Concept and importance of strategic planning for the organization
•  Strategic planning components

Financial Management

Consultation Clients:
•  Newly founded NGOs
•  Established NGOs
•  International Organizations

Consultation Issues:
•  Creating the project budget
•  Creating the annual budget of the organization
•  Defining the financial policy of the organization
•  Establishing annual budget categories and budget forms

Consultation Clients:
•  Newly founded NGOs
•  Established NGOs
•  International Organizations

Consultation Issues:
•  Discussion of stages of project writing
•  The main components of project-proposal
•  Final package of the project
•  Relations with donors

Consultation Clients:
•  Newly founded NGOs
•  Established NGOs
•  International Organizations

Consultation Issues:
•  What means of fund rising exist in Georgia nowadays
•  Donors' status, who can grant funds
•  Charity issues, motivation/legislation
•  Donations, possible ways of addressing
•  Analysis of fund rising methods
•  Arranging events

Consultation Clients:
•  Newly founded NGOs
•  Established NGOs
•  International Organizations

Consultation Issues:
•  General principles of human resource management
•  Selection of staff and criteria
•  Technology of interviewing
•  Staff future career planning, management, transfers
•  Means of staff motivation
•  Methods and means of staff professional development

Consultation Clients:
•  Newly founded NGOs
•  Particular CBOs
•  Initiative Groups
•  Established NGOs
•  International Organizations

Consultation Issues and Forms of Services:
•  Concept and importance of advocacy
•  Advocacy process components
•  Planning the particular advocacy process
•  Facilitation of advocacy process planning
•  Evaluation of advocacy process

Consultation Clients:
•  Established NGOs
•  International Organizations
Consultation Issues and Forms of Services:
•  General principles of inter-organizational management
•  Inter-policy of the organization
•  Organization by-law
•  Financial policy
•  Structural model of the organization
•  Policy of relations with partners
•  Monitoring of activities
•  Staff evaluation/self evaluation

Consultation Clients:
•  Established NGOs
•  International (foreign) Organizations
•  Donor Organizations
Consultation Issues and Forms of Services:
•  Concept and importance of evaluation
•  Evaluation, self evaluation, monitoring
•  Kinds and methods of evaluation
•  Logical model of evaluation
•  Parts of evaluation
•  Working out the aim, object and plan of the evaluation
•  Method of obtaining information
•  Evaluation of projects financed
Consultations are for one hour and they are free of charge.
The price of particular consultations is defined by the terms of the contract and considers the level, frequency and duration of consultations in fixing the actual cost.

Training Sessions for NGOs and Initiative Groups

January

13.01 – 14.01 Effective NGO-Media Partnership
15.01 – 16.01 Proposal Writing
20.01 – 21.01 Legislative Regulations of NGOs
26.01 – 30.01 NGO – Management (Organizational structure, Board Development; Strategic Planning; Financial Management; Project Writing; Fundraising; NGO-Media Relationship) (registration fee – 50 GL)
The training sessions will be conducted at the Horizonti foundation's Tbilisi office.
Follow-up training sessions will be conducted in the regions of Georgia and will be free of charge (December).

January

Chokhatauri
26.01 – 28.01 Strategic Planning, Proposal Writing

Social Work Education Meeting

On December 15 the Social Policy Group of Horizonti Foundation held the social work education meeting. Social workers acting in Georgia from Tbilisi and the regions attended the meeting. Today they are raising the level of their qualification on issues of social work. Representatives of the media also attended the meeting and were given a chance to become acquainted with on going projects in Georgia related to social work.
The attendants were shown the film "Beginning Where the Soviet Ended" about how social work began in Armenia over recent years and discuss Georgian developments.

Everybody Willing to Help Children with Special Needs

Radio Green Wave has decided to help the residents of Dighomi Children's Home. We are trying to collect all the necessary goods aimed at meeting the elementary needs for children, including: clothes, shoes, books, writing-books etc.
Please bring your New Year's gifts to our office till 16:00, December 25.
Those, willing to participate in our action please contact us:
Radio Green Wave
8th floor, 45 Vaja Pshavela Av.
Tel. (995 32) 93 63 74, (995 32) 99 71 69, (8 99) 56 87 69
Contact person: Keti Bezhiashvili
E-mail us at: info@greenwave.ge
Project Harmony Moved to a New Office

Please note that Project Harmony moved to a new office:
7 V. Anjaparidize St. , 2nd entrance, 2nd floor
(In front of one actor's theatre, "Pikris Gora")
Tbilisi 380009, Georgia
Tel: (+995 32) 223847, 250071
Fax: (+995 32) 227941
E-mail: phtbilisi@projectharmony.ge
Website: www.projectharmony.ge
Berdia Natsvlishvili
Deputy Program Director
Community Connections Program
Project Harmony - Georgia
berdia@projectharmony.ge
ccgeorgia@projectharmony.ge 

Organic Fair

On December 29-30, 2003 “Elkana” arranges an Organic Fair in Tbilisi at the Following address: 2 Vazha Pshavela Ave. (in front of the Archive building).

Training Courses and Consultations from CTC 

CTC offers the representatives of NGOs training course on “Organizational Skills” with the initiation and financial support of BP.
Interested individuals should contact CTC no later than January 20. They should submit following documents: application form (application forms are available at the Center office or on web site: www.ctc.org.ge ) , notification letter from the organization and a letter of motivation.
The courses will take place on January 26-30 from 10:00 a.m. to 16:00 p.m.
Address: Vazja Pshavela 30a, 3 rd floor, flat #7
E-mail: ctc@ctc.org.ge

Georgian Library Association

Georgian Library Association GELA offers interested persons to visit the following web-site:
search.epnet.com
User ID: gela
Password: trial
where they can see electronic magazines with electronic versions of more than 7200 publications (electronic magazines, newspapers, books, database).
For detailed information please contact:
Dima Butskhrikidze
Project Manager
Georgian Library Association
7 Gudiashvili Str.
380007, Tbilisi , GEORGIA
Tel.: 384891 E-mail: ge_la@posta.ge
www.gela.org.ge/eifl

UNAG Receives World Tolerance Award 2003

On December 10, 2003 UNA-Georgia officially received the World Tolerance Award 2003. In August 22, 2003 UNA-Georgia became one of the honorable recipients of this reward.
"Through the UNA-Georgia, you have launched significant education projects to heighten public understanding of the role and meaning of the Unites Nations"
"Through your program "Civil Georgia" you committed to promote a broader civil participation in public policy. You have initiated truly humane programs on behalf of refugee communities, thereby alleviating their suffering and generating measure of hope"-reads the letter of Dr. Noel J. Brown, President and CEO, Friends of the Unites Nations to UNA-Georgia Executive Director.
For Additional Information Please Contact:
Ramaz Aptsiauri, UNA-Georgia Executive Director
Julieta Giorgadze, UNA-Georgia Information Officer

Human Rights in Georgia

On December 10 th 1948 the UN General Assembly affirmed and declared the Human Rights General Declaration. Youth Democratic Club also celebrated this date. The seminar on “Human Rights in Georgia ” was held in Human Rights House attended by the Club members and the representatives of mass media. The reporters were: Nino Gachava ( Kutaisi office of Freedom Institute), Teona Kuchava ( Kutaisi branch of Georgian Young Lawyers' Association) and Evgeni Omanadze (Organization “Society and Justice”).
The reporters touched upon the issues of human rights violation and monitoring results, talked about the conditions of refugees. Much attention was paid to the harsh violation of children and prisoners' rights. Participants of the meeting decided upon to establish a coordinate net the members of which will state and monitor the facts of human rights violation in Imereti Region.
Contact person: Iliko Natsvaladze, project manager
Mobile: 877 78 04 06, E-mail: iliko.info@posta.ge

Web-Conference 

The Georgian Business Ethics Working Group, in cooperation with the American Chamber of Commerce, MARNET, and the U.S. Department of Commerce present the Business Ethics Web Conference (BEWC) on developing the Georgian Business Code of Conduct (GBCC). The BEWC was created by the Georgian Business Ethics Working Group as part of its broader Business Ethics Program, intended to help improve the business environment in Georgia through acceptance of good business practices and corporate governance standards.

The working language of the Web Conference is English. Once you have registered, you can enjoy web conferencing from any computer with an Internet connection, in English and in Georgian.

For questions or further information, please contact: Tariel Zivzivadze
Tel: + 995 77 73 79 64

E-mail: tariel@amcham.ge

IREX Media Innovations Program Tender for Translation of Journalism Textbooks

USAID funded Media Innovations Program for Georgia is aimed at fostering the development of professional and self-sustaining independent media.

The major goal of the tender is to provide Georgian media practitioners and journalism students with quality trade literature in Georgian language. IREX announces competition for translation of the 3 textbooks.

Under the sub-contract, IREX will cover expenses related to the translation of the following three books: 1. Media Management: A Casebook Approach; Ardyth Broadrick Sohn, et al (approx. 350 pages) 2. Photo Journalism: The Professionals' Approach; Kenneth Kobre (approx. 350 pages) 3. New Times: Making a Professional Newspaper in an Emerging Democracy; Tatiana Repkova (approx. 450 pages). The remuneration will be defined on case-by-case basis. Approximate price range is $5-$8 per 1,700 Georgian characters.

Only a private person can apply. Interested persons should pick up 16 pages of sample translation materials at the IREX Tbilisi office and translate all 16 pages and attach it to the full application package.