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Creating Stability through Income and Infrastructure
By 2009, GEII will: - complete up to 1,000 economic investment projects, valued from US$3,000 to $25,000; - provide enhanced services and economic opportunity to over 500,000 people; - mobilize and enhance the skills of over 30,000 local leaders; - create more than 12,000 days of short-term paid labor; and - create more than 4,000 long-term jobs.
Georgia’s transition to a free-market democracy has accelerated since the Rose Revolution of November 2003. However, economic revival of this former
In response, CHF International launched the 5-year Georgia Employment and Infrastructure Initiative (GEII) in October 2004 with the assistance of USAID. The program is assisting vulnerable communities in achieving greater self-sufficiency and stability by providing vocational training and employment opportunities in construction skills while rehabilitating community-prioritized major infrastructure. The community-driven process, which focuses on hundreds of communities and entrepreneurs across Georgia, aims to achieve two key objectives:
> Promoting and enhancing entrepreneurship, incomes and employment opportunities through economic facilitation and outreach.
> Increasing capacities for public-private partnerships in rural areas through innovative partnerships between government, the private sector, and civil society emphasizing planning and strategy.
Economic investment projects supported by CHF are competitively selected based on their potential to create and sustain jobs, increase incomes, provide cost savings and stimulate entrepreneurial activity. These projects—which generally complement and enable other community-based initiatives—include:
> Economic Infrastructure: Irrigation systems, market rehabilitation, produce storage facilities, roads.
> Income Generation: Greenhouses, small-scale food processing, tourism, nurseries, fish farms
> Energy and Utilities: Water, gas, electricity
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