Hotel Marriott Tbilisi. GRP Initiatives in Georgia. Gende

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GRP Initiatives in Georgia
Gender and Politics in the South Caucasus
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Questions for Discussion

• Why Transformation?
• What has changed?
• Why GRB?
• What was the starting point?
• What lessons we learned?

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Transformation Problem Poverty and Gender Equity

• Once more about Results of implementation of
  Washington Consensus in Georgia
• Market economy orientation on Efficiency
• Social economy orientation on Equity
• Economic Growth
• Growth of inequity of incomes
• Poverty Reduction and Economic Growth Program
• MDG (2004)

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TRANSFORMATION Why GRB?

• In 1998-2003 GDP growth was about 4
• inflation rate - 4-5
• Average salary amounted to 35-40 dollars.
• Decreased national pension from 10 dollars to 7
  dollars.
• Budget revenues 14 of GDP
• Unemployment rate - 14
• Self-employment rate - 75
• Domestic dept (on pensions and salaries) grow up
  to 60 million Dollar
• Shadoweconomy 60 of GDP

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New Priorities

• Improvement in Governance
• Macroeconomic stability
• Improvement in the structural and institutional
  environment
• Development of Human capital
• Social risk management
• Development of Economic priority sectors
• Improvement of natural environment conditions

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Governance Reforms

• Establishing good governance system
• Minimize of direct government intervention in the
  economy
• Development of clear definitions of governmental
  roles and functions,
• To be close to people as possible. Public
  participation in governance

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Budget Priorities in 2004-2007

• Energy sector development
• Defense
• Privatization
• Social sphere reforms Allowances for families
  who are extremely in poverty

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Budget Priorities in 2008

• Unemployment
• Poverty Reduction and social conditions
  improvement
• Education and health care

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How we started

• institutionalization of GRB Work with Ministries
  and Parliamentary members
• Researches and Reports
• Brochure _ GRP_ way to Social Justice
• Reports Analyze of annual State Budget plans
  and implementation
• Analyze of Municipality Budget (case study)
• Seminars, meetings with Civil society

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Budget expenditures in 2004-2008 Defense and
social sphere (example)
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Lessons Learned (1)

• Political Will of institutionalization of GRB,
• Need on GRB Recommendations from the
  parliamentarians
• Methodology insufficiency and lack of Statistics
• Lack of experience and knowledge of Civil Society
  to monitor GRB
• Easy to work with Municipality officials, but
  lack of Financial sources
• New priorities of Budget in 2008

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New task What we are going to study?

• Gender Equity index in State organizations
• Wages
• Occupations, jobs, positions
• State budget funds for easy credits
• State interventions in labor market
• Social assistance schemes

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Structure of Hired Employment in Georgia in 2006

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Women per 100 Men in Georgia
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What we need

• Dialogue with Officials
• Lobbyism in Executive poverty
• Introduction of gender monitoring structure in MF
  or MSA
• Perfection of methodology and statistics
• International experience
• Study tours for HGO

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Lessons Learned (2)

•   1. A strategic plan of GRB offers an important
  incentives in policy reforms, but these
  incentives is not sufficient for social equity
  implementation.
• 2. Government is the main source of GRB actions,
  but there is no successful without giving
  credentials to the civil society to monitor GB.
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Lessons Learned (3)

• 3. Civil society as the main actors of the GRB
  actions should have some opportunities to correct
  governments actions or change regime, especially
  at municipality level.
•   4. GRB need strong support from the
  international society, the permanent carry on
  dialogue between the NGO and government through
  monitoring and researches.