Germany supports strengthening local governance in Georgia
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The German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) is helping to strengthen local governance and democracy and to create the requisite legal and institutional frameworks in Georgia.
For this reason the GIZ has been implementing the ‘Local Governance Program South Caucasus’, which cooperates with government agencies and civil society organisations at the national level, with pilot regions and municipalities, and with transnational networks in Georgia.
Experience gained through cooperation with the municipalities is utilised to provide advice at the national level in order to bring about country-wide change. The sector-specific topics addressed by the transnational networks are defined on the basis of the countries’ own reform programs.
Today Georgia’s Ministry of Finance and GIZ signed a Memorandum of Cooperation in Tbilisi in order to continue the above-mentioned program and implement public finance management reform in the municipalities and strengthen internal audit systems.
Georgia is finding ways to better use its natural resources and financial capital to turn the country into a ‘green economy.’
German experts will help Georgia to create an ambitious urban development plan for the country.
Germany is offering about €253 million to Georgia for sustainable development. Georgia’s Finance Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze and German Ambassador to Georgia Heike Peitsch signed the financial agreement today.
As PM Kvirikashvili said, the government plans to double the financing for local governments during the next 10 years. In doing so the government hopes to address the problem inequality of life in different regions of the country.
A former military base in the Akhaltsikhe municipality of Georgia will soon be turned into a multifunctional recreational area thanks to a new memorandum of understanding signed between the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the municipality.
The United States Agency for International Development announced on Friday the signing of a five-year, $21 million programme that facilitates "more effective and accountable" local governance in support of Georgia’s ongoing decentralisation reforms.