History


"Initiative for Social Change" (ISC) is a non-governmental, non-profit legal entity founded on March 20, 2013. The founders of the organization are young women who have academic degrees in social work and education accompanied with several years of work experience in social and gender issues. The organization was foundedin order to develop initiatives that would bring positive social changes to various vulnerable groups.



Vision/Mission


"Initiative for Social Change" (ISC) is a non-governmental organization with a mission to promote development of empowerment-oriented services and sustainable positive changes for the welfare and protection ofinterests of vulnerable social groups. The activities of the organization contributes to the creation of an environment where all people have opportunities to realize their potential.

Our activities are based on the principles of social justice, gender equality and co-participation. We believe that each individual is unique and the diversity of people is a significant resource for community development.



Organizational Structure





Our team

Nino Kobalia

Nino is a chair of the board of the ISC. Nino is a trainer-consultant and holds a Master's Degree in Education Policy from Tbilisi State University (TSU). She is a graduate of the certificated program in psychology from the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA). She worked on social and educational issues in both public and non-governmental sectors for 10 years. Nino, as a trainer/consultant, works on adult education and social skills during the last years









Tamar Ivaniadze

Tamar is a member of the board of ISC. She has a master’s degree in Social Work from Tbilisi State University (TSU). She is one of the fellows of the Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) 2020-21 at the Institute for study human Rights (ISHR), Columbia University. At various times, she worked with international and local non-governmental organizations in the field of child protection and social welfare as a project manager, trainer-consultant, professional supervisor, and practitioner social worker. Tamar has 14 years of practical experience in the provision of consulting services, training, research, and assessment.



Nino Demetrashvili

Nino is a member of the board of the organization "Initiative for Social Changes". She graduated from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the Tbilisi State University. In 2012, she was awarded a Master's degree in social work from the same university. Nino has 14 years of work experience, both in the non-governmental and in public institutions in the positions of the researcher/research consultant, project manager, trainer and social worker. Since 2016, she became a member of the special preventive group of the Public Defender of Georgia, under which she is involved in the monitoring of human rights conditions in the closed institutions.



Nino Danelia

Nino is a member of the board of ISC. Nino has a master's and a bachelor's degree in social work from Tbilisi State University. Currently, she is pursuing a master's degree in education (teaching, technology, and society) at the University of Bristol, UK. Nino is a winner of the US professional Fellow's Program (2014). Through which she completed a fellowship on child abuse topics at the Chicago Children's Advocacy Center (USA). Nino has 14 years of working experience in child protection and welfare, child and adult safeguarding, school and community empowerment, and non-formal education fields. In different years, Nino has been employed in the public and non-profit sectors as a social worker, trainer-consultant, researcher, organizational and community mobilizer, child protection coordinator, and professional supervisor.


David Tugushi

Financial Manager - David holds an education in product quality audit from the Tbilisi Technical University. He is proficient in various accounting programs and has ten years of experience as a financial manager in non-governmental sectors, as well as public agencies and private sectors.






Sopo Sanikidze

Sopo serves as a Social Work Consultant for the organization "Initiative for Social Change." She holds a master’s degree in social work from Tbilisi State University. Additionally, she graduated from the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Program, specializing in "Advanced Development in Social Work" for the academic years 2020-2022. Sopo possesses a decade of professional experience, having worked in various capacities within both the public sector, particularly in the juvenile justice system, and the non-governmental sector. Her roles have included serving as a consultant, researcher, trainer, professional supervisor, and social worker





Ana Egutidze

Ana is a junior international law student at Tbilisi State University and a FLEX alumna of '20. She is very passionate about global peacebuilding and policy-making processes as well as strengthening youth participation in decision-making processes at the local level. She has been working as a youth worker and a project coordinator for the past three years in numerous national and international organizations with the purpose of empowering youth through the acquisition of social life skills and knowledge in the areas of leadership, active citizenship, employment, and entrepreneurship





Salome Tsartsidze

Salome holds a master’s degree in sociology. She has 4 years of experience working on research projects in terms of qualitative and quantitive studies, monitoring, and evaluation. Salome works in both marketing and social research. She is equipped with software knowledge and skills in qualitative and quantitative data analysis (programs: SPSS and Nvivo).






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