COOPERATION FOR DEVELOPMENT
Nasrashvili Maia is a lawyer and child rights advocate with 11 years of experience in project management, primarily focused on Human Rights, Child Rights, local government and conflict transformation issues. Graduated from Tbilisi State University (BA in Law) and Ilia State University (MA in Public Policy), she spent seven years in the public sector -working as a Head of Division in the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, where she has been actively involved in implementing Juvenile Justice Reform and Juvenile crime prevention reform.
She was engaged as an expert/trainer in different projects of different public or CSO organizations. She is passionate about sharing experiences and has been developing and conducting trainings and workshops for students and Human Rights professionals nationally and internationally since 2014. She designed various guidelines, SoPs and similar tools for professionals. Currently, she is a fellow of the Prague Civil Society Centre.
Nasrashvili has worked at Civitas Georgica since 2020 as a Child Rights advisor and project manager and since 2024 she has been the head of the organization.
Giorgi Meskhidze is Vice-President of the European Network of Training organizations and founder of Civitas Georgica. He was the president of the organization for 18 years.
Giorgi is an anthropologist and sociologist who specializes in effecting policy change through institution building, coaching organizations and managing development programs. He has over 20 years of successful experience in consultancy and coaching, training design, project management, advocacy and evaluation of development assistance programs in Eastern European countries. He has been working together with the Council of Europe to strengthen the institutional capacity of local governments, participatory democracy and human rights in Georgia, Ukraine, Albania and Moldova. His experience includes working with the Parliament of Georgia, OSCE, World Bank, UNICEF, UNDP and others.
Mr. Meskhidze is a member of the advisory board of the Committee on Education and Committee on Local Self-governance and Regional Development of the Parliament of Georgia. He is also the preschool expert and trainer for the Ministry of Education, Science and Youth and a member of the consultancy board of the Teacher Professional Development Center. In 2017 he was awarded the Certificate of “Anti-Corruption Practitioner” from an Anti-corruption partner’s network.
Irina Simongulashvili has been working at Civitas Georgica since 2006 and coordinates international and local projects at various times. She was involved in the project implemented together with the Polish organization Educator - For Each Child -On the Systematic Support Of The Local Policy Of Pre-School Education". Irina holds a bachelor's degree in international journalism and has completed training aimed at raising her qualifications in project management.
More than 20 years of working in managerial positions, project management experience in international and local non-governmental organizations and private sector;
- Internationally certified trainer, with twenty-five years of experience in conducting training-consultations: 1. in soft skills, 2. business skills and 3. leadership and management;
- More than 15 years of experience in facilitating and consulting the preparation of strategic and action plans;
- Professional and preschool education quality assurance expert;
- Career planning and employment advisor;
- Author of various educational materials and publications on adult education and entrepreneurship issues;
As a volunteer trainer in 2017, she received a certificate of appreciation from the US Agency for International Development USAID Georgia for his volunteering in business skills training in the G-PriEd primary education project.
Gvantsa Shishinashvili has an academic degree in International Relations and currently, she is a Civic education teacher and project officer at Civic Education Teachers Forum (CETF). Gvantsa is a director of Civitas’s partner organization Civic Activism and Regional Development Center
Gvantsa Shishinashvili – Trainer with a strong background in teaching and mentorship at formal and non-formal educational institutions.
Conducted Trainings:
- Gender Equality
- Gender Issues in preschool education
- Women for property rights
- Developing young women's employment skills
- Elections and Women’s Political Participation
- Human Rights and Active Citizenship
- Teaching Civic Education with Documentary Films
The practical experience of working as a trainer relates to the following organizations:
- Civitas Georgica
- International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED)
- Civic Activism and Regional Development Center
- Civic Initiatives Association
- Ministry of Justice Center for Crime Prevention