Local government reform – a new chance

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David Losaberidze is Project Coordinator at the Caucasus Institute for Peace Democracy and Development.

Establishing true local self-government was one of the new Government of Georgia’s major pre-election promises. The ambitious goal of creating local self-governing units is now part of the government’s strategy. In Georgia’s two decades of independence, no other

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Administrative-territorial reform – a taboo in Georgian politics

David Losaberidze is project coordinator at the Caucasus Institute for Peace Democracy and Development.

A lot of reforms have been carried out in the country during the first two decades after Georgia’s independence in 1991. Although some of them were rather controversial and contradictory, they led to significant changes in various spheres of Georgia’s social life, writes David Losaberidze,

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The electricity meter produces rubbish in Tbilisi

David Losaberidze is project coordinator at the Caucasus Institute for Peace Democracy and Development.

Most of the government’s decisions are routine in nature and ordinary people rarely feel their effect in everyday life, writes David Losaberidze, project coordinator at Caucasus Institute for Peace Democracy and Development.

From time to time, however, the government makes

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Provincial socialism and provincial liberalism

A conference of the Georgian national platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum took place in Tbilisi, in the Courtyard Marriott Hotel, on November 24, 2011. Its main objectives were to discuss and endorse the articles of the platform and the code of conduct of member organisations, and elect governing bodies. The discussion turned … Read more