A workshop on training cycle management took place in Georgia on 11-12 March 2016 within the framework of the PCF Project “Support to the Georgian Bar Association”. The meeting targeted Georgian Bar Association Training Centre employees and members of the Educational Council. These two bodies are primarily involved in training identification, module planning, training content oversight and the evaluation process.

The Director of the Training Centre, Ms Tina Karseladze stressed the importance of involving the staff members in the capacity building activities and underlined that “this is one of the rare occasions when Training Centre employees are exposed to the best European practices on identifying training needs and its evaluation”. Indeed, the main aim of the workshop was to enhance the training management quality at the Georgian Bar Association in order to realise regularly updated curricula based on lawyers’ actual needs. To this end, the Council of Europe trainer focused on the first (needs assessment) and the last (training evaluation) phase of the training cycle and guided the participants through respective draft questionnaires. As a result, the Georgian Bar Association has attained a well-formulated training needs assessment and training evaluation questionnaire which will assist the Training Centre in planning its future activities. The workshop additionally assessed the outcomes of the profession-wide lawyers’ survey on training needs and provided concrete recommendations to the Training Centre for their practical implementation.

 

This workshop took place under the EU/CoE Joint Project "Support to the Georgian Bar Association" which is funded by the Programmatic Cooperation Framework for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus. The Council of Europe and European Union are working in partnership with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus to help them meet European standards in human rights, democracy and the rule of law and improve the lives of citizens.