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Description of Project:
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The overall objective of the project of which this Contract will be a part is to assist with developing modern and efficient penitentiary and probationary systems in Georgia that prevent re-offending and maintain a proper balance between ensuring public order and security and guaranteeing human rights protection.
The specific purpose of this project is to assist in consolidating reform planning and strategies, strengthening capacities of the penitentiary and probation staff, improving the prison administration and detention conditions, expanding rehabilitation and re-socialization services, and developing efficient probation and non-custodial regimes.
COMPONENT 1: CONSOLIDATED STRATEGIES
1.1 Identification of gaps and needs for the development of the penitentiary sector
1.2 To update and develop sector strategies, action plans, and BDD in compliance with the national policies, international commitments and standards
1.3 Set up of an efficient evaluation and monitoring system and tools for the implementation of the penitentiary reform strategy and action plans
1.4 To improve research, analytical and strategic planning capabilities and internal processes in the penitentiary, in particular concerning programme-based budgeting in line with the BDD.
1.5 To enhance statistical and reporting mechanisms and standards for purposes of strategic planning and accountability.
1.6 To further develop unified software for collecting and managing data of prisoners and probationers.
1.7 To improve statistical and analytical database and integrated information systems to support evidence-based policy decisions in the penitentiary reform.
1.8 The launch of relevant public opinion surveys.
1.9 The support of roundtables, conferences or workshops of penitentiary staff as well as other relevant actors to discuss the major developments and design action plans for the penitentiary.
1.10 Facilitate a study tour to contribute to knowledge exchange and learning of penitentiary staff as well as other relevant actors
1.11 To provide the penitentiary with international expert opinions to draft amendments to relevant legal acts.
1.12 The draft of public outreach strategies and support campaigns to raise public awareness of the reforms and their impact.
COMPONENT 2: STRENGTHENED CAPACITIES
2.1 The development of a long-term strategy for initial and continuous education
2.2 To improve human resources management system, including the establishment of modern and consistent human resources policy for recruitment of the skilled professionals and classification of the functions and obligations of the employees in line with the public service reform policies.
2.3 The revision of specific training plans and curricula of the PPTC.
2.4 To improve complementarity between the education of the penitentiary and probationary staff on one hand and students, lawyers, prosecutors, social workers, and psychologists on the other hand
2.5 To provide training courses and workshops seconded by international or local experts and organised for the penitentiary staff, directly or through the ToT, and with particular attention to the specialization of penitentiary staff under the new Juvenile Justice Code
2.6 To provide relevant EU manuals, training materials and guidelines to the target groups
COMPONENT 3: IMPROVED PRISON ADMINISTRATION AND DETENTION CONDITIONS
3.1 The development of standards for modern prison management methods
3.2 To strengthen the procedures for performance and monitoring of an appropriate individual approach, needs and risk assessment.
3.3 To expand individual sentence planning to all convicts and establish a proper prisoners' classification system
COMPONENT 4: EXPANDED REHABILITATION AND RE-SOCIALISATION
4.1 To improve and expand the specific working and vocational educational opportunities for inmates, based on the further applied individualized approach and individual sentence planning, and through advising on the best methods of creating industrial zones and educational centres in the penitentiary facilities
4.2 The design of psycho-social rehabilitation programmes for convicts, including cultural and sport opportunities
4.3 To establish half-way houses in line with international human rights standards
4.4 The promotion of increased participation of prisoners in the programmes
4.5 To monitor the adequateness of the programmes for an effective and efficient rehabilitation and re-socialisation of the involved convicts with regard to the recidivism rates and the reintegration into the social life after release
COMPONENT 5: EFFICIENT PROBATION AND NON-CUSTODIAL REGIMES
5.1 To optimize the functioning and administrative capacities of the NPA and its services, including an efficient use of the human resources
5.2 To strengthen the functionality and expand the territorial scope of the Limited Liberty Establishment dealing with convicts whose conduct needs to be monitored, without being held in isolation from society and, if applicable, its transformation into a Half-way House under the penitentiary service
5.3 To ensure proper training courses for probationers, social workers, psychologists, community workers and all other involved persons
5.4 To develop rehabilitation and re-socialisation for probationers in coordination with the civil society, including the opportunities for the vocational education, employment including the community work or social entrepreneurship frameworks, and psychosocial rehabilitation
5.5 To improve coordination with the all relevant stakeholders including penitentiary department, Ministry of Education and Science, and the CPC
5.6 To continue developing risk and needs assessment methodology and individual sentence planning for probationers throughout the country
5.7 To enhance the conditions for carrying out alternative, non-custodial pre-trial measures and sentences, such as home arrest, including the appropriate use of the electronic monitoring mechanism
5.8 The introduction of pre-trial probationary assessment reporting
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