Subject: RE: Request on technical assistance
From: "DOMENTE, Silviu" <[email-masked]>
To: Sopo Belkania <[email-masked]>
Cc: Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 10:51:13 +0000

Dear Sopo,

Following your request, I had some consultations with Regional Office (Nino Berdzuli) and we are suggesting the following approach:

Both for the assessment of implementation of maternal and newborn health strategy and for the evaluation of implementation of cesarean section regulations, we’ll need to ensure proper data collection and analysis and such a task would be
best suitable for local exerts.

In this regard, we are going to engage local experts, familiar with the respective areas.

The whole work of local experts could be guided by our regional office. We also expect the MoH to play a supervisory/coordination role in the process of collecting and analyzing the data.

I will be out of Georgia for the next days, but I will work on the Terms of Reference for the local experts and I would appreciate having a short meeting with you and Dr Tamar Gabunia when back, preferably on Tuesday, 3 September, any time.

After the work of local experts on collecting and analyzing data is done, we’ll organize a Regional Office mission to the country - Dr Nino Berdzuli and colleagues  are ready to visit Georgia on 11-13 October, to help in finalizing the
assessment and evaluation.

In the remaining period until the end of  the year, we’ll provide additional support in drafting the new action plan and we might involve also UNICEF and UNFPA in the process.

Hope this preliminary plan is acceptable.

Looking forward to your answer and  to a potential meeting on 3 September.

Thank you and best regards,

Silviu

Dr Silviu Domente

WHO Representative and Head of WHO Country Office

WHO Country Office, Georgia

81, Basil Barnov Street

0179 Tbilisi, Georgia

Tel:  +995 32 299 80 73

Email: [email-masked]

Mobile: +995 599 47 54 85

Skype: silviudomente

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From: Sopo Belkania <[email-masked]>

Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 22:39

To: DOMENTE, Silviu <[email-masked]>

Cc: Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]>

Subject: Request on technical assistance

Dear Silviu,

On behalf of the Ministry, I would like to request WHO technical  assistance on assessment of implementation of maternal and newborn health strategy action plan (2017-2019) and to support to develop new action plan (2020-2022) and evaluation
of implementation of cesarean section regulations and recommendations for future actions to reduce unnecessary use of the procedure.

Your prompt feedback will be much appriciated.

Best regards,

Sopo Belkania

Head of Analytics, HR Management and International Relations Department

Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia

144 A.Tsereteli Avenue, 0159, Tbilisi, Georgia

Mobile number: +995 599 22 32 32