Subject: RE: responses to Covid and new activities
From: Tamar Barkalaia </O=EXCHORGANIZATION/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=6F5B4218A42A4F0A85A453AB37727AE8-TAMAR B>
To: Audrius Bitinas <[email-masked]>
Cc: Andréï TRETYAK <[email-masked]>; antoine.pogorzelski <[email-masked]>; Natalia GAMGEBELI <[email-masked]>; Tamar Gabunia </o=ExchOrganization/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=e6ca04f38ec94d0cadab9cbdf90fcdde-Tamar G>; Lika Klimiashvili </o=ExchOrganization/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=07e5375ce676406e8328e6f3ca148e5d-Lika Kl>; giorgi chavchavadze </o=ExchOrganization/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=ba2efc036682427fb2eafb0877b76add-giorgi
Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 13:29:07 +0000

Dear Audrius,

I hope this e-mail finds you and your colleagues in good health.   I would like to thank you for sharing Impact Analysis report with us.  The information provided is very useful and will inform our decision making.

I am cc’ing Lika Klimiashvili and Tea Gvaramadze on this e-mail, both will work with you during remote and on-site missions and share information about ongoing and planned actions in social protection, employment and labour.

Looking forward to working with you.

Kind regards,

Tamila Barkalaia

Deputy Minister

144 Tsereteli ave, Tbilisi, Georgia, 0159

+995 599 281 281

From: Audrius Bitinas [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2020 1:04 PM
To: Tamar Gabunia; Tamar Barkalaia
Cc: Andréï TRETYAK; antoine.pogorzelski; Natalia GAMGEBELI
Subject: responses to Covid and new activities

Dear Vice-ministers,

Please find our comparative research on the Covid-19 impact for the social protection, labour and employment. I hope that you will find some useful information in this paper.

Secondly, please let me inform you, that French Development Institution  -  AFD decided to extend our project in relation to Covid-19 impact for social protection, employment and labour.

We are planning to work in 2 steps:

·       Activity 1 – Benchmark of different responses to Covid-19 on social protection, employment and labour with the focus on the income support – short term solutions:

o   Benchmark of different responses to COVID19 outbreak on social tools, labour law and employment and recommendations.

o   Analysis on income support for population and recommendations (remote mission in summer).

·       Activity 2 – New emerging social needs and social protection, labour and employment tools ensuring sustainable social protection, labour and employment-long term solutions in order to ensure sustainable/integrated social protection, employment and labour:

o   Study on the impact of COVID-19 and new emerging social needs and tools (on-site mission from Autumn);

o   Capitalization study on social assistance tools during the outbreak and recommendations (targeted social assistance, safety nets, social care, pensions etc.) (on-site mission from Autumn);

o   Study on unemployment schemes and benefits (on-site mission from Autumn);

By the end of  May we will contact you with the proposal of experts (we are planning to create multi-national team from France, Finland, Lithuania or other, in order to proceed with different approaches; in addition, in this team representatives from economics, law and management shall take part).

Please let us know if you have any objections or remarks.

I wish you all the best,

Yours faithfully, Audrius Bitinas