Subject: Re: Request for the organization of a workshop, if possible
From: Irma Khabazi <[email-masked]>
To: Alain Lefebvre <[email-masked]>
Cc: Ketevan Goginashvili ministry <[email-masked]>, Nino Makhashvili expert ministry <[email-masked]>, Antoine POGORZELSKI <[email-masked]>, Viviane Kovess <[email-masked]>, Natalia Gamgebelivrai <[email-masked]>, Mariam Darakhvelidze <[email-masked]>, Andrei Tretyak <[email-masked]>, Gaelle Assayag <[email-masked]>, Jean-Baptiste Dumay <[email-masked]>, Eka Chkonia <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 13:13:36 +0000

Dear Alain

hope you arrived safe. Attached please find preliminary agenda for our
meeting and participant’s list; you will find column “Representative
of the organization” not filled yet, as participants represent different
organizations and I think it would be better to let them decide how they prefer
to present themselves.

Please let us know any preferences, comments you have, we would be glad to
try our best to meet the needs of the process

with best regards

Irma

From: Alain Lefebvre

Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2019 9:40 PM

To: Irma Khabazi Open Society

Cc: Ketevan Goginashvili
ministry ; Nino Makhashvili
expert ministry ; Antoine
POGORZELSKI ; Viviane Kovess ; Natalia Gamgebelivrai ; Mariam Darakhvelidze ; Andrei Tretyak ; Gaelle Assayag ; Jean-Baptiste
Dumay

Subject: Request for the organization of a workshop, if
possible

Dear Irma

Following my last meeting with you in April, we have advanced with the
Ministry on the content of our technical assistance for mental health in
Georgia. I am coming t Keorgia from the 20th of May to the 22nd of May with the
expert who will lead the project, Pr Viviane Kovess Masfety. Our objective
is to define how we can best assist Georgiafor a mental health's reform.
We will later have additional members of the team as needed. For the moment, we
are going to be assisted by Natalia Gamgebeli for the organization of the
mission.

You will find attached our draft agenda, and I would like to know if you
can help us to meet the NGOs and interested parties on the Tuesday from 3.30, or
alternatively on Wednesday morning. The idea would be to have a workshop with
all the partners so they could present what they have already done in the field
of our mission, the information they have and their ideas of what  would be
needed in the reform, considering the objective of our mission which could be
described as follow at this stage:

1) Provide an analysis of the needs of Georgian
population in mental health care, including hospital beds and outpatient
structures and services, based on studies already conducted and possibly a
survey conducted by Pr Kovess in partnership with one or more Georgian
partners

2)
Proposition of a
range of facilities needed in Georgia, quality standards for these structures
and their repartition on the territory

3) Estimation of the financial impact of the
transformation from the present situation

4) Development of a roadmap to implement these
transformations

5) Recommendations for a new law on mental
health, based on international standards

Do you think you could organize such a meeting, as you indicated when we
met, and would the partners you work with be available at this date and time? We
already know the Curatio foundation and  the Global
Initiative on Psychiatry (Nino Makhashvili), who should participate in the
meeting, but you have already a group of organizations who could be
involved if they wish. We will need georgian partners for our actions for the
ministry, and we would be interested in their participation in our
project.

You will find below our tentative agenda. If you find anything lacking, or
have other recommendations, could you contact me?

You have also indicated a meeting with the Ministry at the beginning of
August. Do you confirm it?

For the contacts and exchanges of  information, you can contact us
through email, but also myself through mobile phone (+ 33 6 51 39 43 70) of Ms
Natalia Gamgebeli, in Tbilisi, on +995 591 34 55 32 for the practical
arrangements.

Thank you for any help you can provide.

Alain

Alain Lefebvre

Agence Francaise de Développement - Expertise France

Technical Assistance to Social Welfare in
Georgia - Mental Health

tel: +33 6 51 39 43 70

Monday 20th of May:

9:00-10h: meeting at AFD (French Development Agency) (Ms Kovess, M.
Lefebvre, Ms Gamgebeli)

10:30 - 12h30: Meeting with you and your team (including the persons from
the social service agency) on your objectives, the general frame of the reform
and the deliverables you expect from the technical review of the existing
documentation. We would like also to know what are the links between mental
health and handicap and understand how people are considered as mentally
handicaped, and the type of support, services and institutions they benefit
from.

13:00 -16h: meeting with the team in the ministry and the social service
agency in charge of health statistics and mental health statistics, and
understand your information system on health status and on health structure (Ms
Kovess, Interpreter)

16:30 - 18:00: visit to the Georgian National Center for
Disease Control and Public Health (CDC) in order to discuss the collection of
mental diseases statistics, get their opinion on the present mental diseases
surveillance and get the main elements they are producing and information about
the tools they use (Ms Kovess, Interpreter)

Tuesday 21st of
May

9h - 10h Meeting with a
mobile team (Ms Kovess, Interpreter)

10h30 - 12h00 Visit to a
public hospital with  amental health department (medical doctors, nurses,
director and persons in charge of the information system). Could be Rustavi
hospital. (Ms Kovess, Interpreter)

13h - 14h30 Visit of a
private structure with a mental health department (medical doctors, nurses,
director and persons in charge of the information system), if this structure has
some innovative ideas about the information system (Ms Kovess,
Interpreter) (Ms Kovess, Interpreter)

15h30 - 19h: Meetings to be
organized with NGOs and other partners: we would like to have a presentation of
the work they have already done with professional associations on standards for
different types of structures, and on changes needed in the law, and on
innovations already in place. I am planning to ask Irma Khabazi, from the Open
Society Foundation, to organize these exchanges as a workshop (Ms
Kovess, M. Lefebvre, Ms Gamgebeli). You could come with us to these meeting if
you are available

Wednesday 22nd of May

9h-11h:Continuation of the work with NGOs, other partners and ministry, to
be defined on Tuesday (Ms Kovess, M. Lefebvre, Ms Gamgebeli)

11h-13h: meeting with Georgian companies specialised in population surveys
(Ms Kovess, M. Lefebvre, Ms Gamgebeli)

16h-18h Closing meeting with the Ministry (Ms Kovess, M. Lefebvre, Ms
Gamgebeli)