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Georgia

Since 1998, IFES has engaged in a series of activities aimed at strengthening the democratic process in Georgia. IFES has enhanced the capacity, transparency, and accountability of key governmental institutions involved in the conduct of elections and propagated a culture of democracy through civic education and civil society development.

IFES specialists are also researching and meeting with senior Georgian election officials to discuss continuing initiatives for electoral boundary delimitation and election law reform.

Current Projects

Training Election Administrators

Working with the CEC and UNDP, in 2008, IFES organized a comprehensive training program targeting approximately 45,000 election officials through a "training-of-trainers" approach. The training covered ethics, voter registration, polling procedures, the rights of observers, vote counting, and complaint adjudication. In the fall of 2008, IFES conducted trainings for election officials in the Autonomous Region of Adjara, beginning with a training of 22 trainers, who in turn trained the secretaries of the region’s 355 precinct electoral commissions.

Past Projects in Georgia »