Partners-Georgia
Local Name: Center for
Change and Conflict Management
Director: Sofiko Shubladze
# of Staff: 12
Center since: 1996
Contact Information:
11b, Phaliashvili Street, Tbilisi, 0179
Tel: (995-32) 91-54-51
Tel/Fax: (995-32) 91-54-52
Email: office@partners.ge
Web: www.partners.ge
Since 1996, Partners-Georgia has served more than 10,000 people from various target groups including local and international NGOs; governmental agencies and local government entities; minorities, youth, community and women leaders; mass media and the private sector. Partners-Georgia works throughout the South Caucasus Region to promote the inclusion of all peoples in decision-making processes and tolerance among divided groups.
Highlights from Partners-Georgia’s Accomplishments Include:
Civil Society Development Programs: Partners-Georgia supports the development of an active civil society. Specifically, Partners-Georgia works to strengthen CSO-based advocacy; and increase the institutional capacity of CSOs.
Youth Development Programs: Encouraging youth to engage in democracy building in Georgia is a crucial facet of Partners-Georgia’s work. Partners-Georgia believes that when youth embrace this role, they will constitute a powerful force for democracy and stabilization, and become leaders in their communities. Through this effort, youth will help to improve socio-economic conditions close to home. Partners-Georgia works to establish more school-based Young Activist Clubs; train teachers in conflict resolution and advocacy; and prepare students for the job market and higher education.
Capacity-Building for Businesses: Partners-Georgia builds the customer service and human resource management of corporate clients, which include local and international banks. In addition, Partners-Georgia provides a variety of trainings and contracted services, such as: customer relations and effective sales; communication with citizens; effective service delivery for marginalized groups; recruitment through interviewing; personnel motivation; and participatory planning to key leaders in the private sector.
Elected & Appointed Government Officials: Partners-Georgia provides training and facilitation services for government agencies and officials in topics such as “Effective Communication with Citizens,” “Participatory Planning” and “Effective Service Delivery for Marginalized Groups.” For example, the Center has trained representatives of the Ministry of Labor, Health, and Social Affairs in media relations; policemen in effective communication with citizens; parliamentary committees in communication and public relations, and Department of Prisons personnel in various social and professional skills.
Partners-Georgia, in cooperation with United Nations Association of Georgia, won USAID/ Tbilisi’s first RFA for local Georgian organizations with their “National Integration and Tolerance program".
In September 2006, Partners-Georgia, in cooperation with CARE International, began implementing British Petroleum’s (BP) Community Investment Program (CIP-2) to support community development in 77 rural communities affected by the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline. The goal of the three-year project is to improve the livelihood, security, and employment of Georgians in these areas.
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