Developing Regional Information and Voter Empowerment for Democracy in Georgia. FINAL REPORT.
Developing Regional Information and Voter Empowerment for Democracy in Georgia. FINAL REPORT.

Author(s): Tamta Jolokhava
Subject(s): Civil Society
Published by: EECMD - Eastern European Centre for Multiparty Democracy
Summary/Abstract: The following document serves as the Final Report of the “DRIVE Democracy: Developing Regional Information and Voter Empowerment for Democracy in Georgia” project implemented by EECMD in partnership with the EPRC under the program entitled “Georgia Elections and Political Processes Support through Direct Awards to Georgia’s Civil Society Organizations (2019-2023).” This report covers the period of September 13, 2019 through February 12, 2023. The DRIVE Democracy project was a three-year-and-five-months initiative designed to empower and educate Georgian voters to better understand, represent and advance their legitimate interests. Its overarching goal was pursued through the innovative combination of merging capacity building of voters with policy dialogue between all regional and national stakeholders and reinforcing the process with citizen-led local projects to ensure accountability and responsiveness of elected officials in the six regions of Georgia: Tbilisi, Kakheti, Shida-Kartli, Imereti, Adjara and Samegrelo. With this effort ensuring fair access of the local population, especially politically underrepresented groups, to the decision-making processes, EECMD worked with the local self-governments and governmental agencies, political parties, field experts, local CSOs, communities, media and other relevant stakeholders to achieve policy impact and produce the multiplying high-level results.

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