Nino Saakashvili (Russia and Newly Independent States)

Nino Saakashvili is a founder and executive director of the Horizonti Foundation.

During the past ten years she has been taking an active part in establishment and development of non-governmental organizations as well as in the formation of the civil society in Georgia.

Under her direction, the Horizonti Foundation initiated creation and development of non-governmental and community-based organizations, establishment of cross-sector partnership, implementation of networking activities, advocacy campaigns, monitoring, evaluation, advocacy as well as conduction of trainings on management issues in Georgia.

Nino Saakashvili initiated and developed the first group of evaluators and organizational management trainers in Georgia. During years led (and still leading) evaluation and introductory organizational management training sessions and individual consulting for Georgian and International NGOs both inside and outside of the country on management, program evaluation, strategic planning, structure development, effective presentations, NGO-Media, NGO-Government, NGO-Business Sector relations, financial management, fundraising, advocacy etc. Among them: UNHCR, World Learning, USAID, Red Cross Georgia, Red Cross Azerbaijan, USA Department of State, Save the Children, Azerbaijani, DANISH Government, Charity Know How Fund, IRC, IREX, Canadian Feed the Children, NRC, World Bank, Eurasia Foundation and etc. 

Nino Saakashvili maintains an effective relations with the entire NGO sector representatives, various national and international partners, national government and business representatives in the country and internationally.

Saakashvili regularly organizes and participates in various national and international conferences and workshops, meetings as a speaker, panelist, facilitator, and group chair as an expert on foundations, NGOs, NGO-Government partnership, evaluation, coalition building, advocacy, NGO management and other issues around the world.

Saakashvili is a member of different international networks and organizations. She is a Chairman of the Board of ORPHEUS, Network of Civil Society Organizations of Central and Eastern European Countries and NIS. Governing Board Member of IOCE- International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation (World wide organization of Evaluation Associations), Member of Editorial Board of IPEN- International Program Evaluation Network (NIS Countries), Member of The International Fellows Program Network and Member of Editorial Board of The Johns Hopkins University, philanthropy Fellows Journal, Member of European Foundation Center, Member of American Evaluation Association. She is an author and editor of different books, articles, papers.