The Foundation Global Initiative on Psychiatry –Tbilisi is a Georgian-based not-for-profit organization that assists professional communities, NGOs, international agencies, governments, universities, and other development institutions in the Caucasus, Central Asia, and other countries (i.e. Ukraine) to improve rights-based mental health care.
The organization started its activities in May 2003, under the name of “Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry – Tbilisi” as the Regional Support Centre for the Caucasus and Central Asia. In April 2005 the name of the organization was changed to “Global Initiative on Psychiatry – Tbilisi” (GIP-Tbilisi). GIP-Tbilisi is a member of the GIP Federation with other partner GIP organizations.
GIP – Tbilisi aims to work at 3 levels of society to achieve maximal effect:
To introduce and develop innovative, culturally sensitive, acceptable approaches to mental health care GIP-T supports innovative projects. services and activities.
To foster rights-based mental health care GIP-T provides and supports the dissemination of modern literature, capacity building, workshops, and local and international conferences, and partners with universities. Research is a priority that allows us to find new knowledge and evidence that could inform programs, policies, and practices in the mental health field.
The main strategy is to influence the governments and other key stakeholders to shift towards rights-based care, and conform to universal human rights mechanisms and modern standards of global mental health; to support the development of relevant mental health policies, programs, and plans; to create the monitoring mechanism and supervising independent bodies for ensuring respect and autonomy of people with mental ill health.
Priority Program Areas:
Campaign to raise awareness of the harm of substance addiction and gambling in the target population Duration - 08/09/2022 – 21/12/2022 Donor: National Center for Disease Control and Public Health NCDC
Duration: 15/06 2021 – 28/02 2022 Donor: UNDP
Duration 28/09/2021–31/12/ 2021 Donor: UNICEF
Location: Tbilisi and Regions of Georgia Duration: 10/02/2022 – 25/02 2022 Donor: WHO CO Georgia
Duration: 15 June 2020 – 31 December 2020 Donor: UNICEF
Duration: 10/10/2020 –31/03/ 2021 Donor – WHO CO Georgia
Partners: Alliance for Better Mental Health, Institute of Democracy, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights Duration: 01/02/2018 – 30/09/2020 Donor: European Delegation to Georgia
Duration: 01 May, 2021 – 30 April, 2022 Donor: U.S. Embassy in Georgia
Since April 2019, GIP-T has run a mental health service in 2 main cities of Georgia – Club Synergy Tbilisi and Batumi, offering multidisciplinary care to adolescents and youth (14-25) and their family members.
7 Gabashvili Str. | Tbilisi 0162 Georgia
Tel. 995 32 2235314
tbilisi@gip-global.org