In order to promote and increase touristic potential of Dmanisi, civics club students jointly implemented a follow-on initiative from the Civics Integration Camp conducted in the frame of the ACETT project.
PH International Ge Calls team together with the leading civil education experts Nino Kvitaishvili and Giorgi Gakheladze have finalized the first round of GE-Calls workshops in four different regions Akhaltsikhe, Kashuri, Poti and Telavi. The workshops aimed to improve the awareness of school administration about the importance of legal culture at schools, to help them clarify priorities, define expected results and outcomes for each school, and identify the best approaches and activities to achieve desired results and outcomes.
On October 11, 2013 civic club students in Tbilisi and regions of Georgia celebrated International Day of Girls by organizing different activities, aiming at advocating girls' rights, access to education and a better life environment.
In the framework of Community-based Component, GE CALLS initiated Small Grants Program for local NGOs. The program aims to promote community initiatives for juvenile crime prevention.
The first Call for Proposals was announced in September 2013. Local NGOs from Telavi, Khashuri, Poti and Akhaltsikhe were given a chance to win funding to undertake innovative and creative actions involving youth and representatives of local community.
Rustavi school based civics club students’ implemented project “Active Citizenship - Democratic Values” promoting principles of democracy and active citizenship among the youth.
On October 8, 2013 Youth Festival was organized in Akhaltsikhe. Youth Festival is an annual initiative promoting cooperation between the school students and local government
The first round of GE Calls workshops for the selected school administrations took start in Poti, on October 18, 2013. The purpose of the training is the creation of legal culture development action plans of the schools.
he trainings were led by Civil Education experts Giorgi Gakheladze and Nino Kvitaishvili. During the three days they covered the topics of legal culture, juvenile justice, characteristics of the specific age-groups, effective communication, etc.
Throughout October 22-26, within the AM CALLS program, 4 towns of Armenia, namely Gyumri, Vanadzor, Metsamor and Echmiadzin, hosted World Café format based Community Dialogues to explore problems concerning local youth, especially those living in difficult conditions, and to come up with citizen action plans to solve those problems.