Subject: RE: Draft Report - Review of the Pilot Assessment and Disability Status Determination System in Georgia
From: Ketevan Melikadze <[email-masked]>
To: Maguli Shaghashvili <[email-masked]>
Cc: Tamar Barkalaia <[email-masked]>, Tea Gvaramadze <[email-masked]>, Nino Jinjolava <[email-masked]>, Medea Kakachia <[email-masked]>, Keti Gigineishvili <[email-masked]>, Milena Harizanova <[email-masked]>, Tinatini Tsertsvadze <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:05:24 +0000

Dear Maguli,

Thank you very much with your comments, which generally coincide with ours. We will definitely send them to Peter and his team.

Thank you!

Keti

Ketevan Melikadze

Social Welfare Officer

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

9 eristavi str., Vake UN House, IV Floor 0179 Tbilisi, Georgia

phone: +995 322 251129 # 145 fax: +995 322 251236

mobile: +995 593 304809

email: [email-masked]

Skype name: Keti Meli

website: www.unicef.ge

From: Maguli Shaghashvili

Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 10:02 PM

To: Ketevan Melikadze

Cc: Tamar Barkalaia ; Tea Gvaramadze ; Nino Jinjolava ; Medea Kakachia ; Keti Gigineishvili ; Milena Harizanova ;
Tinatini Tsertsvadze

Subject: Re: Draft Report - Review of the Pilot Assessment and Disability Status Determination System in Georgia

Dear Keti,

Thank you very much for sharing the report. I have read it and provided my comments. It is always beneficial to have an external evaluation, especially when the next phase intends to improve all flaws of the first stage. I would like to
thank  Peter for his good job and it will be useful to consider the findings of the evaluation in future.

I should admit that It would be more helpful, if majority of the statements could have been explored a bit deeper; the reasoned arguments would support the statements and become more useful for future. Without the evidences, the report
has a  format of 'collecting opinions' of the stakeholders rather then evaluating the pros and cons of the process thoroughly. As I understood, due to time constraints, the expert did not have time to analyse the pilot  as a dynamic process (how we started
and what we were changing and etc.) that’s why it’s difficult to see the progress (some information in the report refers to the ‘early stages’). Did the expert has an opportunity to have interviews with the pilot participants and representative/s of the ministry?
Their standpoints are missing or it’s me and I miss this information (my apology, if I missed something).

It has been a very interesting and challenging process, we all learned a lot and and have more interesting way ahead to complete this important work together with persons with disabilities.

My best regards,

Maguli

On Sep 9, 2020, at 12:48 PM, Ketevan Melikadze <[email-masked]> wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

I am sending you a final draft report “Review of the Pilot Assessment and Disability Status Determination System in Tbilisi, Georgia” developed by our international expert Peter Grimes. We started reviewing it internally. If you have any
comments and suggestions, please provide them COB Tuesday, September 15th.

Best regards,

Keti

Ketevan Melikadze

Social Welfare Officer

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

9 eristavi str., Vake UN House, IV Floor 0179 Tbilisi, Georgia

phone: +995 322 251129 # 145 fax: +995 322 251236

mobile: +995 593 304809

email: [email-masked]

Skype name: Keti Meli

website: www.unicef.ge

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