JSI / PARTNERS

JSI Research & Training Insitute, Inc.
(JSI, or "John Snow" as known in Georgia)

Incorporated in the United States in 1978, JSI is a non-profit consulting and research organization dedicated to improving the health of individuals and communities in the United States and around the world. JSI believes that every person deserves the chance to live a healthy life. Through research, management assistance and education, JSI strives to improve access to and quality of health care. JSI helps build capacity to address critical health issues, and is committed to improving primary health care services to poor and underserved populations. We promote health and wellness, prevention of disease, expansion of care and treatment, and improvements to health service delivery. We work in partnership with host-country experts, organizations, governments and citizens to empower countries, communities, families and individuals to advance their own skills and create lasting solutions to their priority health and development issues. Currently operating from four U.S. offices, including our headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and from 28 international offices, JSI has implemented projects in 84 countries and has more than 400 U.S.-based staff and 700 staff worldwide. The funding for these programs comes to JSI from a variety of sources including the United States Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). In the countries of the former Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe, JSI currently implements programs in Russia, Romania, Ukraine and, from September 2003, in Georgia. JSI is the prime cooperating agency for the USAID-funded "Healthy Women in Georgia (HWG)" Program.

JSI Research & Training Insitute, Inc.,
Healthy Women in Georgia Program (HWGP)
Address: 25 Gogebashvili St.,
Kutaisi 4600, Georgia
Telephones: +995 (331) 45356; 45364;
Fax: +995 (331) 45717
Contact Person: Nancy Harris, Chief of Party
Email: info@healthywomen.com
Web address: www.healthywomen.ge


Save the Children USA: Georgia Field Office

Save the Children USA established its presence in Georgia in 1993. Since then, Save the Children has successfully implemented various humanitarian aid, development and civil society strengthening projects funded by USAID, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), the World Food Program (WFP), the Food and Agriculture Program (FAO), SDC [WHAT DOES SDC STAND FOR?] and other donors. The complex program of Save the Children aims at providing assistance to the vulnerable groups in Georgian society - Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), street children, high risk groups affected by HIV/AIDS (Acquired Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus) - as well as addressing the needs of the developing civil society. Save the Children has also proven its expertise in community mobilization techniques. One of the important components of almost all Save the Children programs in Georgia is cooperation with the local stakeholders, community development and constituency involvement to the actual programs. JSI entered into a subagreeement with Save the Children in September 2003 under the HWG Program. As an HWG partner organization, Save the Children is committed to implement women's health information, education, behavior change communications and community mobilization assistance in HWG-targeted facilities and communities in Imereti.

Save the Children (SC)
Address: 8, Baratashvili Street, 4th Floor,
Tbilisi 0105, Georgia
Telephones: +995 (32) 995454; 931108; 996548
Fax: +995 (32) 998943
Contact Person: Charlei Kaften, Field Office Director
Email: scgeorgia@save.org.ge
Web address: http://www.savethechildren.org/


The Fund "Orthos"

Orthos is a Georgian non-governmental organization (NGO) founded in 1997. The general aims of the Fund are prevention of maternal and children's morbidities, psychosocial rehabilitation of disabled children and their families, protection of women's and children's rights, and realization of civil education. Since its founding, with funding from Georgia's business and private sectors, Orthos has worked to provide charitable consultations for children with pediatric, neurological and orthopedic diseases including bronchial asthma and cerebral palsy, and treatment and rehabilitation for vulnerable persons with skin diseases. In 1999-2000, Orthos helped establish a coordinating council for charitable activity, with a membership of 40 organizations. In 1999, Orthos also received funds from another Georgian organization, "Horizonti", to establish "Parents' Schools" - an innovative concept for Georgia, later expanded by Orthos with funding from UNICEF (the United Nations Childrens Fund), Germany's aid agency, GTZ, and Mercy Corps. Parents' Schools provide information and consultation in reproductive health for parents, and are located in health facilities in which women deliver their babies. Parents choose to participate either before or after the birth. Selected health personnel are specially trained to serve as Parents' School facilitators, and they hold courses on various subjects in maternal and child health. Since 2000, Orthos has established three Parents' Schools in Georgia - in the Tblisi Chachava Institute of Perinatal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology; the Gori Maternity Hospital and Khulo Maternal and Child Regional Health Center. With Mercy Corps funding, a Parents' School will be established in the Kaspi region. Under the HWG Program, JSI entered into a subagreement with Orthos to establish three additional Parents' Schools in the Imereti region - in Kutaisi, Zestaphoni and Chiatura respectively. Orthos also works on issues of family violence and on informing Georgian society about the conditions of disabled persons, in order to affect society's attitudes. The Fund publishes a high quality magazine for mothers and fathers on parenting, health issues and child care, which is sold commercially and from which Orthos finances some of its activities.

Charitable Rahabilitation Fund for Disabled Children - ORTHOS
Address: 31 Gamsaxurdia Ave, 2/2Floor, Apt 11,
Tbilisi, Georgia
Telephones: +995 (32) 963871
Fax: +995 (32) 963871
Contact Person: Nino Javakhadze, President
Email: nino@orthos.ge


Curatio International Foundation (CIF)

The Curatio International Foundation (CIF) is a not-for-profit NGO founded in 1994 and registered in the Republic of Georgia. CIF works both within and outside Georgia and falls under the rights and privileges granted by the Georgian Constitution and International Law. The organization was founded with the mandate to support reforms in the health, social and education sectors. Since its establishment, CIF has implemented various projects and carried out research - which has contributed to reforms in the health sector of various countries in the Southern Caucasus, Central Asia and Africa. CIF is actively involved in health care reforms in the Southern Caucasus, especially - but not limited to - assisting the governments in designing Primary Health Care (PHC) reform strategies, planning and implementing policy and program reforms and activities; hospital sector restructuring; and health care financing. CIF staff has extensive experience not only in the Caucasus region but also in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Africa. Key personnel provide their expertise to the World Bank, UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), and other international and multinational agencies. JSI entered into a subagreement with CIF for provision of technical assistance and other support for women's health data collection and analysis; interpretation of health system issues; monitoring and evaluation, and development of health policy issue briefs relating to the strategies and activities of the HWG Program.

Curatio International Foundation (CIF)
Address: 37d, Chavchavadze Avenue,
Tbilisi 0179, Georgia
Telephones: (8231) 253104; 253196; 251344
Fax: (8231) 995540
Contact Person: Dr. Ketevan Chkhatarashvili, President
Email: katy@curatio.com
Web address: www.curatiofoundation.org