Project Name: Family Support Policy – EU Member States and Georgia
Donor Organization: MagtiCom LTD
Grant Amount: 35,000 GEL
Period of Performance: April – December, 2015

Project Description 

According to UN, Georgia is among 20 countries worldwide which are affected with depopulation. Economic hardships, as well as political instability in the country have resulted in critically low birth-rates and increased death rates. In contrast with 1980ies, when there were approximately 94 thousand newborns annually, currently this number has almost halved.

One of the important factors which can improve demographic situation in a country, is state social policy, a combination of state assistance and support programs, as well as active involvement of the society. Unfortunately, the programs that have existed until today, as well as current ones can be assessed as ineffective, which has resulted in more active work from CSOs.

Goal

The Goal of the project is to prepare recommendations and a project of legislative initiatives for the state policy supporting families with many children, based on analysis of public information as well as international practice.

Activities

• Analysis of demographic data of Georgia
• Analysis of international best practice of demographic and social policy
• Preparing recommendations and a project of legislative initiatives for state support policy