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The EU has over 140 active projects in Georgia. A wide range of partners including civil society, international organisations, private companies, the Georgian government, and EU member states implement these projects. 

Funding is provided through various modalities. They include grants, service tenders, blending, loans, or sectorial reform support contracts.
On this page, different funding modalities of the EU support in Georgia are presented.

The European Union published a detailed evaluation on the effectiveness and impact of the EU’s cooperation with Georgia during the funding period 2014-2020. An independent team of evaluators worked on a comprehensive evaluation of the EU’s development assistance.
Read the detailed findings of the evaluation on the effectiveness and impact of the EU’s cooperation with Georgia in this factsheet.

Grants

EU support is usually provided through grants.  These financial donations do not have to be repaid and are usually awarded following a call for proposals. Grants are usually aimed for non-profit organisations. 

In Georgia, we have over 100 ongoing grant projects, most often with civil society projects. 

Tenders

The EU can provide specific technical expertise or equipment by launching a competitive call for tender.   These can include:

  • Services (technical assistance, studies etc.)
  • Supplies (equipment, materials etc.)
  • Works (infrastructure, engineering works etc.)

Twinning

Twinning is an EU instrument for institutional cooperation between Public Administrations of EU Member States and of beneficiary or partner countries.

Twinning projects bring together public sector expertise from EU Member States and beneficiary countries with the aim of achieving concrete mandatory operational results through peer-to-peer activities.

Loans, Guarantees and Blending

The EU provides loans, guarantees and equity as forms of financial assistance to support its policies and programmes. Where in the past, the EU have mostly used direct grants to promote development in our partner countries, we now aim to bring in other sources of public and private finance to complement our own development funding. For example, the EU provides loans to businesses of all types for investment in research and innovation. It also provides guarantees to help beneficiaries to obtain loans more easily or at better conditions from banks and other lenders. The EU may also financially participate in a project by owning parts of it.

With guarantees, we share the risk associated with investing and lending in developing countries, so that private investors and development banks will finance entrepreneurs or development projects. That means in the unlikely event that a loss occurs, the EU will pay part of it.

Sector Reform Support Contracts

Sector Reform Support Contracts, are a form of budget support, central to EU international cooperation. They involves direct financial transfers to the national treasury of partner countries engaging in sustainable development reforms.

These transfers are conditional on policy dialogue, performance assessment, and capacity building. Other types of support often accompany budget support.

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