Local Democracy Agency Georgia held a regional conference on citizen engagement mechanisms, which was attended by grant donor organizations, invited speakers, members of the local self-government of Imereti region and the initiative group created within the grant.

The regional conference aimed to share best practices and existing challenges on each engagement mechanism with the participation of different municipalities in the Imereti region, as well as to devote some of the conference to presenting the results and achievements of the implemented grant.

The second part was dedicated to the importance of ensuring citizen engagement mechanisms and sharing of best practices by the representatives of Imereti municipalities, also an online citizen's feedback platform was presented, which was piloted for Vani, Khoni, Kharagauli, Samtredia, Baghdati and Tskaltubo municipalities.

This platform enables the beneficiaries of the municipality to evaluate the social programs / services implemented by the municipality, which they benefited from during the budget year.

This regional conference was held in the framework of the grant "Increasing the Quality of Citizen Involvement in Local Self-Government" implemented by the Religious Democracy Agency of Georgia with the support of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Government of Georgia.