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.
Ivane is a child and adolescent psychologist. Within the framework of Civitas Georgica, his work focuses on the psychosocial support of children whose parents have emigrated.
Ivane’s professional experience is largely related to improving inclusive and special education practices in preschool and general education settings.
Over the years, he has worked in both public services and the non-governmental sector. His professional activities have primarily included conducting psycho-educational assessments, designing intervention plans for students with behavioral difficulties, consulting specialists, and developing and delivering training modules for parents, teachers, and other professionals.
I am Ketevan Tsintsadze, an inclusive education specialist, special educator, and trainer with 15 years of experience working with children with special needs. My work is focused on creating an inclusive environment where all students, regardless of their abilities, have the opportunity to develop their full potential.
As a highly qualified nurse, my knowledge extends to the health and developmental aspects of children, which helps me create individualized learning plans and needs-based support.
My extensive experience as both a practicing specialist and a trainer allows me to share my knowledge and skills with colleagues and aspiring professionals. I have developed various educational materials and methodologies that contribute to the improvement of inclusive education standards.
I am constantly working to promote the importance of inclusion in society and actively participate in various projects dedicated to protecting the rights of children with special needs. Since 2024, I have collaborated with Civitas Georgica, where I participated in several projects, and since 2025, I have served as a trainer for the organization.
Tea Dzotsenidze is an education specialist and legal expert with 8 years of experience at the Ministry of Education, Science and Youth of Georgia, working in general education as well as in early childhood education as an expert in municipal capacity building and child rights.She has participated in projects supported by UNICEF, the World Bank, and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), contributing both to management and to the development of inclusive preschool education, quality standards, and policy documents. Tea has created educational resources for strengthening the professional capacity of preschool specialists, delivered trainings, and actively contributed to the development of state policy in early and preschool education. She also leads seminars on human rights and constitutional law at Georgian Technical University. Her academic work includes presentations at international conferences on inclusion, education governance, and children’s rights, as well as publications on child rights and access to education.
Her professional career began as a preschool educator, after which she worked for over a decade as a teacher and Head of Preschool Readiness Programs.
Since 2017, she has been successfully engaged as an educational program coordinator and trainer, with extensive experience in delivering trainings for both public and private kindergarten teachers. She has participated in various professional development trainings and projects, and is a certified methodologist and trainer.
Currently, Nana Kashibadze is an Early and Preschool Education Quality Development Expert, a trainer at the international association Civitas Georgica, and the Teaching Process Manager at the International Education Academy BDC.
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