Subject: Thank you and follow up
From: "Rebecca Morton Doherty" <[email-masked]>
To: Maia Lagvilava
Cc: 'Eka Sanikidze' <[email-masked]>; [email-masked];'Isabel Mestres' <[email-masked]>; [email-masked];
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:53:08 +0200

To:        Deputy Minister Maia Lagvilava

CC:        Gela Chiviashvili

Ekaterina Sanikidze

Maka Asatiani

Dear Deputy Minister Maia Lagvilava,

It is my pleasure to inform you that the City of Tbilisi has been officially accepted as a C/Can 2025 Challenge City, following a final decision of Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) Board of Directors.

As a next step, we would like to be able to announce this excellent news on July 5th, in conjunction with the Civil Society Hearing for the UN High Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) taking place in New York. This is a great opportunity to make a public announcement, as there will be heightened press and social media coverage of NCD issues. UICC is due to have a speaking role in one of the side events as part of the UN Meeting, and could use also this opportunity to make the announcement.

Before going ahead with a public announcement, we suggest a short ‘letter of intent’ be signed between UICC, the Ministry and the City, confirming our intent to work together on this initiative, and to work together over the coming weeks on a more detailed Memorandum of Understanding including our respective roles and responsibilities and a schedule of work.  I would send a draft of this ‘letter of intent’ to you for review and signature this week.  Similarly, I will also begin working with our communications team on a news release, and social media messaging around the announcement of Tbilisi as a Challenge City for this group to also review and use in your own communications on July 5th.

Many congratulations again to all, and thanking you in advance for your support. We are very much looking forward to embarking on this new initiative with the City of Tbilisi. In the meantime please do not hesitate to contact Isabel or I should you have any questions.

Kind regards,

Rebecca Morton Doherty

Head, City Engagement & Impact
Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)
31-33 Avenue Giuseppe Motta
1202 Geneva - Switzerland

Tel: +41 22 809 18 77
Fax: +41 22 809 18 10
[email-masked]
www.uicc.org/CCan2025

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From: Isabel Mestres [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: 11 June 2018 12:13
To: [email-masked]
Cc: 'José Jerónimo'; 'Rebecca Morton Doherty'; 'Eka Sanikidze'; [email-masked]
Subject: Thank you and follow up

Dear Deputy Minister Maia Lagvilava,

On behalf of the C/Can 2025 City Cancer Challenge team, I would like to thank you and the Minister Sergeenko once again for meeting with Dr. Jeronimo and I in Tbilisi last week. It was a pleasure to meet with you and learn more about the context for cancer care in Tbilisi. We were highly impressed by your full commitment to improve Quality access to Cancer Diagnostics and Care for Georgia and your interest in the City Cancer Challenge.

As mentioned during our meeting, the City Cancer Challenge is a multisectoral initiative supporting cities to take the lead in the design, planning and implementation of cancer treatment solutions. The City of Tbilisi is in the final stages of the application process to become a “Challenge City”.

Should Tbilisi go forward to become a Challenge City, your continued support, commitment and leadership will be critical to the success of the initiative, and we remain at your disposal should you have any additional questions, or require any further information.

In terms of next steps, Dr Jeronimo and I will provide a comprehensive report and recommendation to the C/Can 2025 global team, and provided we have a positive endorsement from the UICC board of directors – which we hope - we will share a draft letter of intent from UICC to be signed by the Mayor and Ministry of Health, outlining our intention to work together on a more detailed Memorandum of Understanding with clear roles and responsibilities, and schedule of work for C/Can 2025 activity.  We would also work with you and the City on a communications package around the public announcement of Tbilisi as a Challenge City.  I am copying Rebecca Morton Doherty, C/Can 2025 Head of City Engagement and Impact, who would will keep you updated and informed of next steps.

Thank you again for your time last week, and we look forward to being in touch soon.

Kind regards

Isabel Mestres

Director, External Relations and Partnerships
C/Can 2025: City Cancer Challenge

Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)
31-33 Avenue Giuseppe Motta
1202 Geneva - Switzerland

Tel: +41 22 809 18 01
Fax: +41 22 809 18 10
[email-masked]
www.uicc.org

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