GREEN Guria – Supporting Local Democracy and Rural Development for Inclusive and Resilient Green Growth
8/12/2022 ‐ 8/12/2025
Ozurgeti, Chokhatauri, Lanchkhuti, Guria
CENN in partnership with: Young Pedagogues’ Union, Institute of Democracy and Local Action Group of KEDA (LAG)
European Union’s ENPARD IV Program
Activity Overview
The project supports the Georgian government to improve the economic and social conditions of vulnerable rural communities in Georgia’s Guria region by enhancing civic participation, inclusive rural development, and green growth. The project focuses on building robust, climate-resilient, and green communities by diversifying rural opportunities, fostering competitive economic, agricultural, and environmental practices, and engaging civil society, vulnerable groups, women, and youth in participatory planning.
Activity Goal
The project’s activities include establishing and building the local action groups, developing gender, child, and vulnerable group-sensitive local development strategies, implementing innovative and replicable green projects to diversify the rural economy, and promoting civic participation to empower women, youth, and local CSOs to defend the rights of their constituencies and advocate for quality public services for vulnerable groups.
The expected results of the project are improved participatory mechanisms for sustainable rural and territorial development, improved policy dialogue and participatory implementation of rural development approaches, greener and diversified rural economy, increased areas with climate-smart forest and land management, and an empowered rural population with improved access to public services and infrastructure. The project aims to promote EU values, participatory local democracy, gender equality, climate action, and green post-COVID recovery.