Dear Maia,

Again, thank you very much for your support and feedback.

Please find enclosed the second draft of the GRB AP which will, as a next step go to a more formal process of consultations.

Kind regards,

Elisabeth

Dear Elisabeth,

Sorry for the delayed response. Thank you for the New Year wishes. May this year bring you new happiness, new achievements and a lot of new inspirations on your life. Thank you for your great work with us. When we start working on Medium Term Action Plan for years 2020-2023 we will have clear image on gender responsive budgeting. It will give us opportunity to choose more interesting programs for GRB goals in the future.

It is very important and necessary to integrate Gender Responsive Budgeting in Program Budgeting and to determine adequate requirements within GRB. It is also essential to modify Order N385 as of July 8, 2011, of the Minister of Finance of Georgia on Adoption of Rules and Methodology of Program Budgeting.

It is also of great significance to involve Internal Audit Department in evaluation and analysis of these processes.

Once again, I appreciate the effort you have put in introducing GRB to us and look forward to continue working with you.

Best Regards,

Maia

Dear Maia, dear Maia,

even though the New Year is already well on its way, I wish you all the best for this year, may all your wishes come true and may it be a successful and happy year 2019!

Sorry for the longer silence, it’s been demanding on my side; but finally I can present you a first (zero) draft of the GRB Action Plan.

Thank you for all your support and collaboration so far! The further development of the draft Action Plan would benefit a lot from your comments. As agreed this first round of review is among workshop participants on a personal basis, a more formal feedback/discussion loop involving the institutions follows later.

I’d highly appreciate if you can devote some time to review the documents. As you see there is a more explanatory, verbal draft AP as well as the document translating the overall approach in the action plan format provided by you. I am aware that there is a lot of further specification needed. At this point, any comment is highly welcome, from your side especially on the part referring to implementation of GRB in the ministries and agencies.

Also, your input on the specifics of the coordination, capacity building and GRB approach would be very welcome and your insights on whether and which specific steps should be specified in the AP to make the implementation of GRB as likely and as simple as possible in your ministry.

If you can send your feedback and contributions by January 28^th that would be highly appreciated.

I wish you a great week, and I owe you a great dept of gratitude for your great collaboration and kind support!

Kind regards,

Elisabeth