Local Self-Government // Political Party Finance // Women and Security (3 POLICY-PAPERS)
Local Self-Government // Political Party Finance // Women and Security (3 POLICY-PAPERS)

Author(s): Nino Kakubava, Tamunia Chincharauli, Ketevan Bolkvadze, Rusudan Kervalishvili
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Civil Society, Fiscal Politics / Budgeting
Published by: EECMD - Eastern European Centre for Multiparty Democracy
Summary/Abstract: The system of political funding has a major influence on institutional development of political parties. It shapes important functions of political parties, such as candidate selection and participation in elections, formulating policy and governance, aggregating interests and representing them in politics. Rightfully designed political funding system can prevent over-dependence of political parties on a single donor and ensure that parties are accountable to their members and supporters, not to certain individuals or corporations. Ketevan Bolkvadze's paper draws the comparison of Armenian and Georgian systems of political funding and provides recommendations on howtheycan be reformed. // The second paper is devoted to the citizen participation in local self-government. Nino Kakubava and Tamunia Chincharauli analyze legislative and institutional aspects of participation. Three core themes of the paper are the resources for citizens' access to information, the formats of integrating citizens' input in the local self-government, and the possibilities of more active participation on the part of citizens. It provides analysis of the current state of affairs and of the reform strategy with regards to these three issues. The paper also contains interesting summary of local and international literature. Authors' recommendations are noteworthy and can aid current debates on local selfgovernmentreform. // Ms. Rusudan Kervalishvili's paper is about women's engagement in peace and security. Her paper will introduce the reader to the Georgian experience on improving women's participation. It goes through the international obligations of Georgia on women's participation and draws important recommendations on how to better materialize them. I hope the given publication will support current legislative work, contribute to political debates and facilitate emergence of more effective formats for political finance, self-government and women's participation in politics. On our part, we will continue making efforts to invite interesting authors and share their important ideas.

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