The IDP Project

Over the years GYLA has been implementing various projects focusing on protection of IDP rights. Current ongoing projects include Innovative Ways Innovative and Applicable Durable Solutions to Displacement. The project has been funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) and implemented through the Danish Refugee Council (DRC).

The project entails several different strands and is implemented with the engagement of GYLA’s three offices in Tbilisi, Gori and Kutaisi. 

Project Strands

1. Protection of human rights, development of and ensuring access to mechanisms for safeguarding human rights. 

The foregoing strand combines the following activities:

• Providing group and individual consultations

• Preparing legal documents

• Providing legal service

• Bus tours to IDP collective centers and new settlement

Below are the statistics of legal aid provided to IDPs throughout 2012:

Individual legal consultations – 2689

Legal documents – 298

New legal cases – 17

Bus tours - 114

2.  Raising legal awareness of public and improving respect for law

Goal of the project is to increase IDP awareness about their rights with combination of the following activities: 

• Producing and distributing brochures

• Holding round table discussions on pressing issues for IDPs

3. Ensuring that principles of accountability and transparency remain a priority and are observed in the process of elaborating and implementing the state policy.

• Facilitating and holding coordination meetings between organizations focusing on IDP rights; joint efforts for raising awareness and advocating;

• Active and constructive participation in the group of experts set up for realization of the Action Plan

• Monitoring expulsion of IDPs

Publications

Researches

Research – State Policy Towards IDPs (Analysis of Deficiencies), 2011

Brochures:

• Fellowship of apartment owners

• About State Pension

• Transferring Housings Spaces into the ownership of IDPs

• Right to a housing and guarantees against unfounded expulsion of IDPS

• About Medical Insurance

• The Action Plan for Implementation of the State Strategy towards IDPs