Subject: Invitation to the UNFPA Evaluation Debriefing Meeting_ Reference Group _ 11 April 14:00 -15:30
From: Natalia Zakareishvili <[email-masked]>
To: Nato Alhazishvili <[email-masked]>, Mzia Tabatadze <[email-masked]>, Mariam Sikharulidze <[email-masked]>, Lela Bakradze <[email-masked]>, Gigi Bregadze <[email-masked]>, Tanadgoma <[email-masked]>, Nino Tsereteli <[email-masked]>, Ketevan Goginashvili <[email-masked]>, ketevan goginashvili <[email-masked]>, Mariam Jajanidze <[email-masked]>, Shorena Tsiklauri <[email-masked]>, Lela Sturua <[email-masked]>, Maia Tsereteli <[email-masked]>, Maia Tsereteli <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 13:01:19 +0000

Dear evaluation reference
group (ERG) members, Dear colleagues,

I am glad to have this opportunity
and would like to thank you for your valuable inputs in the evaluation process
and please be informed that that the evaluation of UNFPA third country programme
(CPE) 2016-2020 is progressing as planned.

As we move through the
process of the evaluation exercise, the country evaluation team concluded the
field phase.  As per policy and
procedures, at the end of the field phase, the country evaluation team should provide
the UNFPA country office and ERG with a debriefing presentation on the
preliminary results of the evaluation, with a view to validate the preliminary
findings and test tentative conclusions/ recommendations for developing country
case study.

As your support and
collaboration is highly important and valuable for us, UNFPA Georgia country office
would like to invite you to the debriefing meeting RE:  the preliminary results of the evaluation to
discuss and comment on the findings/deliverable produced by the evaluation team.

Findings will be presented
by the national evaluation team – Ms. Nato Alhazishvili, who will present
findings of the Gender, and PD portfolios and Ms. Mzia Tabatadze for SRHR and HIV
portfolios. The International consultant Ms. Alison King will be joining us via
the skype and discussion will be led by the UNFPA Georgia country office.

The meeting will be held on
Thursday, 11th April, at 14:00
-15:30, UN Conference Hall, UN House.

Thank you very much for
your time and consideration, we look forward to seeing you at the meeting

With kind regards,

Natalia

Ms. Natalia Zakareishvili, MD, MPH
Programme Analyst/HIV

UNFPA Georgia CO
O: +995 32 251126 (ext 256)
M: +995 599 223069
Web: georgia.unfpa.org
Facebook: UNFPA.Georgia
Twitter:  UNFPAGeorgia

On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 9:52 AM Natalia Zakareishvili <[email-masked]> wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

Many thanks for your interest to participate in Reference Evaluation Group (ERG) and support the UNFPA third Country Programme Evaluation (CPE) 2016-2020.

According to the UNFPA guidelines, the ERG’s key task is to review and provide inputs to the country case study (Georgia), which encompasses providing feedback to the evaluation design report, facilitating access of evaluators to information sources, and providing comments on the main deliverables of the evaluation, in particular the country case studies at the draft stage.

As we move through the process of the evaluation from the design to dissemination stages the members of the ERG will be invited to discuss and comment on the deliverables produced by the Evaluation Team.

As it has been communicated, the ERG will be operational from the beginning of November 2018 till May 2019.  Establishing a well-balanced ERG helps to ensure that the country programme evaluation to cover the issues relevant to and important for the key stakeholders of the country programme.

The ERG for CPE is comprised by the following representatives from UNFPA, as well as relevant stakeholders from partner government, non-government organizations and development partner;

1)      Marina Darakhvelidze - Ministry of of
Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health
and Social Affairs of Georgia

2)      Ketevan Goginashvili  -  Ministry
of of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour,
Health and Social Affairs of Georgia

3)      Mariam Jajanidze - Adviser at Human Rights
Secretariat of Government Administration of Georgia/ Secretariat of the
Inter-Agency Commission;

4)      Shorena Tsiklauri, Head of Population Census
and Demographic Statistics Department  at Geostat

5)      Gigi Bregadze - Democratic Governance Team
Leader at UNDP

6)      Nino Tsereteli – Executive Director, NGO
Tanadgoma

7)      Lela Sturua – Head of the
Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology and Health Promotion Department at
NCDC&PH

8)      Maia Tsereteli - Head of Department,
HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STI & TB , NCDC&PH

9)      Natalia Zakareishvili – Programme Analyst,
UNFPA

The evaluation will unfold in five phases, each of them including several steps. (Please see details in the attached TOR)

Preparation phase; Evaluation design phase; Training phase; Field phase; Synthesis and dissemination phase.

The evaluation team will consist of:

1)     Team Leader (International expert (currently recruited) with overall responsibility to conduct the evaluation and develop the final evaluation report in Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

2)     Two National Experts with overall responsibility for field data collection, data analysis, drafting of Country Case studies and providing support to the Team Leader

3)     Research Assistant -  To provide assistance to Team Leader.

Your support and collaboration is highly important and valuable. Following up this communication I am sharing the evaluation TOR for your information. At this stage, Team leader (Alison King, International Expert) and Research Assistant  (Mariam Sikharulidze,) are recruited, and we are in the process to initiate the recruitment process of the National Experts.  We will share the TOR for national experts    and ask contribution to the selection process of evaluators.

Very best regards

Natalia

Ms. Natalia Zakareishvili, MD, MPH
Programme Analyst/HIV

UNFPA Georgia CO
O: +995 32 251126 (ext 256)
M: +995 599 223069
Web: georgia.unfpa.org
Facebook: UNFPA.Georgia
Twitter:  UNFPAGeorgia

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Maia Lagvilava <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [GENTLE REMINDER] Invitation to the UNFPA Country Programme Evaluation Reference Group (ERG)
To: Lela Bakradze <[email-masked]>
Cc: Maia Lagvilava <[email-masked]>, Mariam Darakhvelidze <[email-masked]>, Ketevan Goginashvili <[email-masked]>, Natalia Zakareishvili <[email-masked]>

Dear Lela,

Thank you and your team for collaboration and support to the  Ministry. I would like to confirm nominiees  of Dr. Darakhvelidze and Ms. Goginashvili to participate in the ERG.

Wish you all successful work.

Kind regards,

Maia

On Oct 31, 2018, at 12:04 PM, Lela Bakradze <[email-masked]> wrote:

Dear Ms. Maya,

This is a gentle reminder....

Many thanks for your attention

With best regards,

Lela

Ms. Lela Bakradze

Assistant Representative

UNFPA Country Office in Georgia

O: + 995 32 225 11 26 (ext 142)

M: +995 591174174

Skype: lelabakradze

Web: georgia.unfpa.org

Facebook: UNFPA.Georgia

Twitter:  UNFPAGeorgia

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 2:52 AM Lela Bakradze <[email-masked]> wrote:

Dear
Ms. Maia,

First of all, please let me thank you immensely for your excellent cooperation and support to UNFPA Georgia Country Office.

I am writing regarding the upcoming UNFPA
third Country Programme Evaluation (2016-2020) that will be undertaken applying so called “Cluster Evaluation” approach and will encompass three countries - Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey. This exercise will evaluate greater or lesser relevance and effectiveness
of the different strategies adopted in the countries and thematic/programmatic areas. The product of this evaluation will be a single report with country annexes (case studies) with specific aspects by country, treated as case studies.

As the part of the evaluation, according to
the UNFPA guidelines, an Evaluation Reference Group (ERG) will be established by the each UNFPA Country
Offices in each country, comprised by key programme stakeholders (national governmental and non-governmental counterparts), representative/s of UN sister agencies and the evaluation manager from the UNFPA Country Office.

The ERG’s key task is to review and provide
inputs to the country case study (Georgia), which encompasses providing feedback to the evaluation design report, facilitating access of evaluators to information sources, and providing comments on the main deliverables of the evaluation, in
particular the country case studies at the draft stage. As we move through the process of the evaluation from the design to dissemination stages the members of the ERG will be invited to discuss and comment on the deliverables produced by the Evaluation Team.

Thus, establishing of a well-balanced ERG helps
to ensure that the country programme evaluation covers the issues relevant and important for the key stakeholders of the programme country (Georgia).

With a view of all this process, according
to the UNFPA Evaluation guidelines, the ERG shall be established not later than beginning of November 2018 and shall stay operational till May 2019.

I am writing to kindly request you to nominate
relevant staff from the Ministry to participate in the ERG. We would appreciate participation of Ms. Marina Darakhvelidze and Ms. Ketevan Goginashvili in this group, as both have been in close collaboration with the Country Office for implementation of the
SRH portfolio.

Your support and collaboration is highly important
and valuable for us. With your permission, Natalia Zakareishvili, Programme Analyst, acting as an evaluation manager for this initiative at the UNFPA/Georgia, will follow-up on this communication and share the Evaluation TOR and brief members of the ERG.

Please kindly contact Natalia [[email-masked]]
should you have any question related to the above or need any further clarification.

With repeated thanks and my best regards,

Lela

Ms. Lela Bakradze

Assistant Representative

UNFPA Country Office in Georgia

O: + 995 32 225 11 26 (ext 142)

M: +995 591174174

Skype: lelabakradze

Web: georgia.unfpa.org

Facebook: UNFPA.Georgia

Twitter:  UNFPAGeorgia