In 2011 and 2012 GeoWel Research undertook a research training project to try and enhance the in-house capacities of four municipalities of Shida Kartli and the Governor’s office to collect and analyze data for economic development planning on local and regional level.

GeoWel Research, supported by GIZ, recently completed a research and analysis capacity building program with the Georgian Ministry of Economic and Sustainable Development.

The research and analysis was done to support the Mercy Corps Project entitled Market Alliances Against Poverty in the Samtskhe-Javakheti Region of Georgia.

The objective of the research was to provide an overview of the meat and dairy sector in Racha with an aim to assessing the viability of both sectors and the various ways that the project could work with the sectors to improve them.

The purpose of this project was to provide Oxfam a comparative briefing note on the five FSU countries where Oxfam continues to operate; Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia and Tajikistan.

The research was conducted in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan from September 2010. The work was conducted with the Caucasus Research Resource Centers in Georgia and MVector in Central Asia as part of the project planning for a large Finnish Government financed Access to Justice Project.

This report, written for Oxfam Moscow, looks at the short- and long-term impact of the grain export ban issued by the Russian government during 2010-11.

This research was conducted as part of Private Sector Development in the South Caucasus Program, conducted by GIZ which is, in turn, part of its wider Caucasus Initiative. The principle objective of the study is to inform decision makers about the various barriers to trade and investment between Georgia and Azerbaijan so as to help them reduce these barriers.

This project looked at the Georgian economy and the VET system to identify the existing mismatch between VET provision and labour market need. At the same time, looked at ways in which the government can more effectively ensure coordination of the VET system and the economy on an on-going basis.

The report combines a survey of 22 new settlements and their neighboring communities with an analysis of infrastructure and economic development in each of the settlements and a review of both the government’s and international community IDP projects.