Founder and Director of CSDC since 2010. A specialist in child welfare, family strengthening and advocacy for homeless children.
Nino Todua founded the Civil Society Development Center (CSDC) in 2010 and has led it ever since. Since 2015 she has coordinated the Transit Educational Programme. Her main areas of work are child welfare, family strengthening and advocacy for homeless children. She writes and manages projects, delivers trainings and organizes regional and national conferences.
She co-authored the study “Strengthening Families in the Mtskheta-Mtianeti Region” and the handbook “Social Work with Homeless Children”, as well as the brochures “How to Protect a Child from Violence”, “Every Child in School” and “Invisible Children”. She developed the idea for the documentaries “This Is Not My Home” and “Diaries of My Life” and the video “Girls’ Voices in Peacebuilding”.
Since 2009 she has worked at Helping Hand, where she manages finances, project evaluation and donor relations. Earlier she was a lecturer at the Georgian Technical University and a trainer-administrator at the IREX IATP centre. She holds a master’s degree in Informatics and Management Systems from the Georgian Technical University. In 2018 she was a mentor in the World Connect project “School of Future Politicians for Young Girls”, and the same year she led and trained at Tbilisi City Hall’s “Volunteers for Tbilisi” camp.