Subject: RE: action requested RE: Follow up Regarding Strengthening of Analytical capacity at the Ministry
From: Maia Nikoleishvili <[email-masked]>
To: Mikheil Janiashvili <[email-masked]>, Davit Pheikrishvili <[email-masked]>, Tinatin Ramishvili <[email-masked]>, giorgi chavchavadze <[email-masked]>, Tea Gvaramadze <[email-masked]>, Lika Klimiashvili <[email-masked]>, Ekaterine Adamia <[email-masked]>, Ketevan Goginashvili <[email-masked]>
Cc: Tinatin Khardziani <[email-masked]>, MoLHSA webex <[email-masked]>, Sophiko Chelidze <[email-masked]>, Tamar Beridze <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 12:56:44 +0000

მოგესალმებით,

გაცნობებთ, რომ ქ-ნ თამარ გაბუნიასთან შეთანხმებით 29 მაისს, 14:00 საათზე დაიგეგმა შეხვედრა UNICEF-ის წარმომადგენლებთან სამინისტროში ანალიტიკური შესაძლებლობების გაძლიერებასთან დაკავშირებული საკითხების განხილვის მიზნით.

შეხვედრა გაიმართება სამინისტროში, მე-8 სართულზე.

UNICEF-ის წარმომადგენლები შეხვედრას დაესწრებიან დისტანციურად.

შესაბამისად, აქვე ლაშას ვთხოვ, დააგზანვნოს ლინკი შემდეგ მეილებზე:

Tinatin Baum <[email-masked]>

Nino Dzotsenidze <[email-masked]>;

Amy Clancy <[email-masked]>;

Subject: Meeting on Strengthening Analytical capacity at the Ministry

გთხოვთ, თქვენს დასწრებას დაგეგმილ შეხვედრაზე.

პატივისცემით,

მაიკო

მაია ნიკოლეიშვილი

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From: Tinatin Baum <[email-masked]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 3:31 PM
To: Maia Nikoleishvili <[email-masked]>
Cc: Davit Pheikrishvili <[email-masked]>; Tea Gvaramadze <[email-masked]>; Ghassan Khalil <[email-masked]>; Nino Dzotsenidze <[email-masked]>; Amy Clancy <[email-masked]>; Tinatin Khardziani <[email-masked]>; Tamar Barkalaia <[email-masked]>; Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: action requested RE: Follow up Regarding Strengthening of Analytical capacity at the Ministry

Dear Maia,

I would like to follow up on the below communication. Is there an agreed time/date for the meeting?

Best

Tina

From: Tinatin Baum
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 2:02 PM
To: Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]>; Tamar Barkalaia <[email-masked]>
Cc: Davit Pheikrishvili <[email-masked]>; Tea Gvaramadze <[email-masked]>; Ghassan Khalil <[email-masked]>; Nino Dzotsenidze <[email-masked]>; Maia Nikoleishvili <[email-masked]>; Amy Clancy <[email-masked]>; Tinatin Khardziani <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: action requested RE: Follow up Regarding Strengthening of Analytical capacity at the Ministry

Dear Tamar,

Thank you for your email. May I suggest 27Th of May for an online meeting?

Best

Tina

From: Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 9:11 AM
To: Tinatin Baum <[email-masked]>; Tamar Barkalaia <[email-masked]>
Cc: Davit Pheikrishvili <[email-masked]>; Tea Gvaramadze <[email-masked]>; Ghassan Khalil <[email-masked]>; Nino Dzotsenidze <[email-masked]>; Maia Nikoleishvili <[email-masked]>; Amy Clancy <[email-masked]>; Tinatin Khardziani <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: action requested RE: Follow up Regarding Strengthening of Analytical capacity at the Ministry

Dear Tina

Many thanks for your e-mail and follow up on this. I would appreciate to have a quick virtual meeting with yourself and ministerial team to discuss what are needs and what can realistically be achieved in given circumstances.

Early next week  would be a good time for the call. I kindly ask Maia Nikoleishvili to coordinate.

Best

Tamar

From: Tinatin Baum [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: 14 May, 2020 16:31
To: Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]>; Tamar Barkalaia <[email-masked]>
Cc: Davit Pheikrishvili <[email-masked]>; Tea Gvaramadze <[email-masked]>; Ghassan Khalil <[email-masked]>; Nino Dzotsenidze <[email-masked]>; Maia Nikoleishvili <[email-masked]>; Amy Clancy <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: action requested RE: Follow up Regarding Strengthening of Analytical capacity at the Ministry

Dear Mrs. Gabunia,

I would like to follow up on the below communication regarding the  analytical capacity strengthening process at the ministry. In the previous communication you requested to postpone the activity. We extended the contracts of our consultants until June. I just wanted to remind you that If launched, the self-assessment has to take at least 4 months.

However, with this email I would like to again advise on how to proceed. We need to either extend and expediate or terminate the process.

Looking forward to your response,

Sincerely,

Tina

From: Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 9:45 AM
To: Tinatin Baum <[email-masked]>; Tamar Barkalaia <[email-masked]>
Cc: Davit Pheikrishvili <[email-masked]>; Tea Gvaramadze <[email-masked]>; Ghassan Khalil <[email-masked]>; Nino Dzotsenidze <[email-masked]>; Maia Nikoleishvili <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: action requested RE: Follow up Regarding Strengthening of Analytical capacity at the Ministry

Dear Mrs. Baum

Many thanks for your e-mail and follow up. Due to the special circumstances related to COVID 19 response, I kindly request you to postpone all capacity building activities not directly linked to emergency preparedness or COVID response for at least 4 weeks.

Thanks for your understanding and cooperation.

პატივისცემით,

თამარ გაბუნია

მინისტრის პირველი მოადგილე

Sincerely,

Tamar Gabunia, MD, MPH

First Deputy Minister

From: Tinatin Baum [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: 17 March, 2020 09:41
To: Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]>; Tamar Barkalaia <[email-masked]>
Cc: Davit Pheikrishvili <[email-masked]>; Tea Gvaramadze <[email-masked]>; Ghassan Khalil <[email-masked]>; Nino Dzotsenidze <[email-masked]>
Subject: action requested RE: Follow up Regarding Strengthening of Analytical capacity at the Ministry
Importance: High

Dear Deputy Ministers ,

I would like to follow up on the below. We need to either extend and expediate or terminate the process.

We need to move ahead and we need to hear from you what is your position.

Looking forward to hearing from you

All the best

Tina

From: Tinatin Baum
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 11:05 AM
To: 'Tamar Gabunia' <[email-masked]>; 'Tamar Barkalaia' <[email-masked]>
Cc: 'Davit Pheikrishvili' <[email-masked]>; 'Tea Gvaramadze' <[email-masked]>; Ghassan Khalil <[email-masked]>; Nino Dzotsenidze <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Follow up Regarding Strengthening of Analytical capacity at the Ministry
Importance: High

Dear Deputy Ministers,

With a full understanding of your busy schedule, especially in light of COVID19 related situation in the country, I would like to follow up on the below. It is critically important for us to receive your response as we need to proceed.

Looking forward to hearing from you

All the best

Tina

From: Tinatin Baum
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 10:05 AM
To: 'Tamar Gabunia' <[email-masked]>; Tamar Barkalaia <[email-masked]>
Cc: Davit Pheikrishvili <[email-masked]>; Tea Gvaramadze <[email-masked]>; Ghassan Khalil <[email-masked]>; Nino Dzotsenidze <[email-masked]>
Subject: Follow up Regarding Strengthening of Analytical capacity at the Ministry
Importance: High

Dear Deputy Ministers

I would like to follow up on our earlier meeting with the Minister and specifically draw your attention to the Information Technology and Analytical Department capacity building and institutional strengthening process, including the implementation of Common Assessment framework (CAF) in the department. As we have earlier discussed, our experts have already conducted a baseline assessment and produced a report. The report covers the state of analytical capacity at the Ministry as well as at the subordinate agencies. The report clearly shows the need of a reform to strengthen the analytical capacity at the Ministry.

In order to support the process of the reform at the ministry, it is critically important to use quality management approach to strengthen the department. If respectfully implemented, the Common Assessment Framework would give the department the possibility to respond the existing challenges and pave the way to substantial reform.

In fact, our consultants have already engaged with the department and conducted the initial training. The training was well received and we felt that they would further follow up to implement the entire process.  And yet, at this stage, the process has been dragged and somehow delayed.

Our initial planning envisage the completion of CAF process by end of February, however, since the ministry has not even started the self-assessment process, the implementation will be definitely delayed. Usually, the self-assessment lasts from four to six months and requires active engagement of respective personnel.

As we face financial limitations and donor requirements, it is salient to align our expectations to better understand the Ministry’s position in terms of continuation and further implementation of CAF.  We would very much appreciate of having a clear understanding and assurances of the Ministry’s intentions.

Justice House of the Ministry of Justice was the first public agency in Georgia that initiated and implemented CAF and your ministry would be the second institution in the country which would use CAF to holistically analyze its analytical capacity and further strengthen it.

For you easy reference, I am sharing the following documents:

ToR – initial plan to start the strengthening process

Task description and details (file name Statement of Work in ENG and Geo)

Baseline report (file name Baseline Assessment in ENG and Geo and short summary named  baseline assessment მოკლე შინაარსი)

Agenda of the CAF training (file name CAF agenda)

Action plan developed by the ministry during the training of the personnel ( file name სამუშაო ვერსია _ eng CAF გეგმა გრაფიკი)

We will be happy to  have further discussion on the subject and would very much appreciate of having a joint meeting for that matter.

Looking forward to hearing from you

All the best

Tina

Tinatin Baum

Social and Economic Policy Specialist

(995 32) 25 11 30 ext 217 , mob: (995) 599 747773 , [email-masked]

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