National Preventive Mechanisms - "Prevention of Torture: Kazakhstan and International Experience" was held in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana. Akaki Kukhaleishvili, the researcher analyst at the Department of Prevention and Monitoring of the Public Defender's Office informed participants about the structure and activities of the National Preventive Mechanism of Georgia. On May 31 and June 1, 2017, the Council of Europe Directorate General Human Rights and Rule of Law organized a working meeting in Strasbourg, France, which was attended by representatives of the national preventive mechanisms along with high-level experts. The aim of the meeting was to enable the group working on the standards of administrative detention of migrants to listen to the comments and remarks of the national preventive mechanisms. Georgia was represented at the meeting by Nika Kvaratskhelia, Head of the Department of Prevention and Monitoring of the Public Defender's Office 2.2.5. COOPERATION WITH NGOS AND OTHER DONOR ORGANIZATIONS In 2017, the NPM actively cooperated with different local and international NGOs and donors. On December 6, 2017, Public Defender introduced the rules of cooperation with NGOs within the framework of the mandate of the National Preventive Mechanism to the public. The rules aim to regulate the existing format of cooperation with NGOs. According to the rules, NGOs working on human rights or prevention of torture will be able to submit a project application to the Public Defender in order to carry out joint projects under the mandate of the National Preventive Mechanism and together with the employees of the Public Defender’s Office, which may include thematic visits to the penitentiary institutions or other facilities where liberty is otherwise restricted to conduct sector surveys or educational and awareness-raising activities in order to study the situation in similar facilities in depth. NGOs will be able to apply to the Public Defender within the framework of the contests periodically announced by the Public Defender or any time, without a contest. Throughout the reporting period, the NPM had an active communication with the South Caucasus regional office of “Penal Reform International” (PRI). A number of meetings were held on the issue of protection of human rights in the places of deprivation/ restriction of liberty. Representatives of the NPM had regular communication with the international NGO “Association for the Prevention of Torture” related to the setting up of effective follow-up mechanism for recommendations. Throughout the reporting period, the National Preventive Mechanism carried out research on penitentiary healthcare through the financial support of the Open Society – Georgia Foundation. Throughout the reporting period, the NPM has been in active cooperation with the EU within the framework of the project “Support of the Public Defender’s Office II”. Through this project, the EU has 6