Khatuna Sandroshvili

Istanbul Regional Centre/UNDP Georgia

khatuna.sandroshvili@undp.org; @S_Khatuna;

*Micro NarrativesGeorgia

July 2014

*Why Micro-Narratives?

*Probing into human rights situation in

Georgia

*Sensitivity of researching tolerance levels towards LGBT, religious, and ethnic minorities

*Partnerships:Public Defender’s Office

Academia

NGO community working on minority issues;

*How does it work?

*Sensitivity of researching tolerance levels towards LGBT, religious, and ethnic minorities

*Prompt question – tell us a story about someone who is different from you

*Answer some of the questions -Triads and Dyads and Demographics

*http://demo.sensemaker-suite.com/Collector/collector.gsp?projectID=UNDP_Georgia&language=ka [DEMO VERSION]

*What is the situation now?

*What is the difference we want

to see?

*Correlations

*What is the problem to be solved?

Tackle the issues related to minorities. Improve people’s lives at large.

*How are media being used to address the problem? 

Web-based survey; Mobile and Ipad apps; - easy to provide ongoing updates on the status of the issue to feed into news reporting;

Results blogged about through social media channels;

*What can media change?

Perceptions, awareness, foster common understanding;

Partnership building in the development field/Ability to engage with unusual suspects;

*How can we change media?

We can make it more fact-based and purpose-driven to support citizen-driven social innovation by providing access to knowledge produced;

*Technology and Media

*Working out loud – UNDP Blogging platform/twitting/Facebook:

http://europeandcis.undp.org/@UNDPEurasia/ https://www.facebook.com/UNDPinEuropeandCIS

On Micro-Narratives:

*Belarus on the disabled: http://europeandcis.undp.org/blog/2013/10/17/empowering-people-with-disabilities-through-storytelling/

*Kyrgyzstan - on youth employment for Post 2015 agenda: http://europeandcis.undp.org/blog/2013/12/04/empowering-young-people-in-kyrgyzstan-to-have-a-say-in-the-post-2015-development-agenda/

*Georgia exploring the issues of tolerance towards minorities: http://europeandcis.undp.org/blog/2014/01/27/micronarratives-in-georgia-how-to-collect-feedback-from-citizen-experts/

*Thank you!

“Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.”

Mark McKinnon, Political Advisor