Subject: Re: Request on technical assistance
From: Sopo Belkania <[email-masked]>
To: Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Cc: Rusiko Klimiashvili <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 10:47:45 +0000

Dear Tamar and Silviu,

Hope you are doing well!

I will be back on 5th of September, so will join you at any time suitable for both of you.

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

On Sep 2, 2019, at 14:32, Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]> wrote:

Dear Silviu

Thanks again for your follow up on rehabilitation and other topics. You may have already been informed by a ministry representative and tomorrow on September 3rd there will be a meeting of Tbilisi
based PHC providers with Madam Minister and myself. You and Rusiko are most welcome to attend.
This is at the Sheraton Metekhi palace at 2 p.m. We could have a brief talk on when to meet sometime this week. Sopo will also be back from her holiday on 4th so she could join us then.

With kind regards,

Tamar

From: DOMENTE, Silviu [mailto:[email-masked]]

Sent: Monday, August 26, 2019 3:21 PM

To: Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]>

Subject: RE: Request on technical assistance

Dear Tamar,

I am going to send to the minister a request for nominating a Focal point on rehabilitation (our regional office needs this, as they already got nominations from the other two countries involved in the project).

Do you think this it is a proper moment for sending the request, or better to wait and discuss during our meeting next week?

Thank you!

Silviu

From: Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]>

Sent: Monday, August 26, 2019 15:09

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

Cc: Nato Kvernadze <[email-masked]>

Subject: RE: Request on technical assistance

Sear Silviu

Many thanks for keeping me in the loop of this communication. This is a great plan. Sure , I am available on September 3rd for our meeting. Will confirm the meeting time
as soon as I have more details on some upcoming meetings next week.

With kind regards

პატივისცემით,

თამარ გაბუნია

მინისტრის მოადგილე

Sincerely,

Tamar Gabunia, MD, MPH

Deputy Minister

From: DOMENTE, Silviu [mailto:[email-masked]]

Sent: Monday, August 26, 2019 2:50 PM

To: Sopo Belkania <[email-masked]>

Cc: Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]>

Subject: RE: Request on technical assistance

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

GPN: 74222

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