The National Association of Local Authorities (NALA) holds the annual competition within the CoE program, in view of the detection and sharing of the successful models of the realization of the local authorities.

The Chair of the Regional Policy and Self-Government Committee, Kakha Kakhishvili and other reporters delivered the welcome speech to the attendees of the Conference held within the hereof program.

The EU Ambassador, Pawel Herczynski; the Vice-President of NALA, the Chair of Tbilisi City Assembly, Giorgi Tkemaladze; UNDP Resident Representative, Nick Beresford; the Deputy Regional Minister, Mzia Giorgobiani; and the Advisor to the Prime Minister for Human Rights, Niko Tatulashvili also addressed the attendees.

The participants discussed the role of the municipalities and re-formulation of the public life; at the Conference, the presentation of the Guideline for Local Budgeting oriented to persons with disabilities was held.

The Conference included the awarding of the municipalities winning the Best Practice Competition 2022.