Program description
Raising Level of Public
Participation of IDP/refugees in Georgia and Azerbaijan in
Decision-making by Administrative/State Bodies
The project is
implementing within the CRINGO Networking Initiative program and funded by
Danish Refugee Council.
Project
goals
- Monitoring and
Revealing of Violations of IDP/refugee Rights;
- Raising Legal
Awareness of IDP/refugees;
- Increasing Level of
Information they possess on the rights and freedoms, and ways of their
implementation;
- Overall Improvement of
Legal Standing and Conditions of IDP/refugees.
Project
partners
Azerbaijan Young
Lawyers Union, Azerbaijan
Civic Education Youth Centre, Georgia
Project
period: April 01, 04 - October 01,04
Project
objectives
- Revealing facts of
violation of IDP/refugee rights through monitoring of State Agencies;
Informing IDP/refugee
communities on rights and benefits envisaged by law;
- Raising their legal
awareness, for having them more actively involved in decision making and
activities of state bodies;
- Carrying joint
educational events for IDP/refugee communities and relevant state officials;
- Legal analysis of
normative basis that is elaborated and enforced by the respective government;
- Elaboration of
respective set of amendments to legislation, lobbying for their adoption and
implementation
Expected
results
and impact
Achieving the Project
objectives will make it possible to provide IDP/refugee communities with direct
access to important information. Along with this, monitoring of the state
agencies will make it clear what are the gaps, mistakes and omissions, as well
as intentional barriers created by state bodies to IDP/refugees in Georgia and Azerbaijan in
realisation of their even so minimum rights and guarantees. Revealing of these
problems will help us to elaborate mechanisms of their eradication and/or
settlement, effect of enjoyment of different rights and social benefits that
this category of population possess will grow; involvement of IDP/refugees in
activities of state agencies will directly influence and increase level of
responsibility and efficiency of these agencies, improve social conditions of
the target group.
Strategy
/ mechanisms or instruments
- In order to conduct
monitoring, obtaining public information under FOIA/Freedom of Information Act
from public organs on the basis of General Administrative Code will be one of
the first steps and priorities, in order to have as comprehensive information
on legal basis governing IDP/refugee lives (Representative and Executive bodies
of Abkhazia, as well as certain organs of Central Government in Georgia proper
and Azerbaijan).
Contact
details: Civic Education Youth Centre
Address: #11 Arsena
Street,
0108, Tbilisi, Georgia. Tel/Fax:
(+995 32) 93 91 98,
E-mail: Practicallaw@gol.ge
Program manager: Levan Paniashvili
Partner: Azerbaijan Young
Lawyers Union (AYLU).
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