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Public Advocacy and Human Rights Center to Start Monitoring of Local Self-Governments

December 19, 2014
Public Advocacy and Human Rights Center will start monitoring in the municipalities, where local self-governmental bodies were divided between city and district councils as a result of reforms. The Project “Promotion Increased Accountability and Transparency of Local Self-Governments in Mtskheta and Gori Districts” will be implemented in five administrative units of Gori municipality and in three administrative units of Gori municipality.

Several significant changes resulted from the reform in local self-governance. For the promotion of democratic performance of the self-governance process, it is important to maximally engage civil society in it and to monitor the ongoing process. 

Monitors from the Public Advocacy and Human Rights Center will monitor how lawful and transparent is the process of dividing the competences and authorities between two units in Mtskheta and Gori municipalities. Besides that, publicity and civic engagement in the work of local self-governments is very interesting; it is also interesting whether ordinary citizens from the municipalities have chance to express their positions and participate in the selection of different state programs, present their recommendations or have access to the budget of the programs. 

The project will find out whether local governmental officials regularly meet local population in order to reveal their problems and needs. 

Monitoring of the process by nongovernmental organizations is important for the promotion of transparency and accountability. Public Advocacy and Human Rights Center will conduct monitoring in five directions: 1. Monitoring the work of transparency mechanisms envisaged by the law about municipal boards; 2. Monitoring the implementation of the programs by local governments, 3. Monitoring the process of issuing public information at local self-governments; 4. Monitoring the meetings of the representatives of local self-governments, district administrations and municipal board members with population; 5. Monitoring the cooperation between local self-governmental bodies and regional governor’s office. 

The project is implemented with the financial support of the Open Society Georgia. 

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