Evaluation of the Report about Implementation of the 2014 Action Plan of the National Human Rights Protection Strategy

 On June 9, 2015 Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association arranged a round table about evaluation of the report on implementation of the 2014 action plan of the National Human Rights Protection Strategy.

GYLA’s report revealed the following:

Ø Activities of the Interagency Coordination Council of the Georgia’s Human Rights Protection Government Action Plan were carried out with irregularities;

- Activities of the working groups set up within the Council fail to meet the stated goal. Further, group members are involved in the process mostly for show;

- Some gaps were observed in terms of activities envisaged by the Human Rights Protection action plan and adequate indicators;

- In some cases it is difficult to find a link between certain activities and selected indicators, whereas progress oriented indicators aiming to measure achieved success are almost missing from the plan, which complicates evaluation of report implementation.

·         There is no procedure for submitting and reflecting  qualitative criteria (Recommendations/reports of the Public Defenders’ Office, International and Local NGOs), which results in their ignorance by the Council and secretariat and consequently they are not reflected in the report;

·         Annual report of Human Rights Protection Activity Plan is not an analytic document as it is envisaged by the government order;

·         The report fails to reflect comprehensively activities carried out by responsible agencies in the reporting period. In certain cases it is difficult to determine the progress of the goal envisaged by the plan;

·         Sometimes, the report and correspondence submitted by competent agencies provide incompatible information, which indicates about lack of proper coordination;

·         The report mentions nothing about gaps, obstacles or irregularities revealed during the reporting period, that may be eliminated in future through additional endeavor.

GYLA will continue to work on the issue in future and will introduce to the stakeholders  observation results.