ESC: Civic education training and workshops for youth in Georgia

Non-Entrepreneurship (Non-Commercial) Legal Entity (N(N)LE) Gori Municipality Strategic Development Agency (GMSDA) was founded in 2012 with the overall mission to support the socio-economic development of the municipality. In order to achieve its goal, agency plans and implement various cultural, educational, social and infrastructural activities. Gori Municipality Hall and other donors fund the organization. The agency provides needs assessment in the municipality ranks the top priorities, based on the needs of the municipality, designs project proposals for further implementation. The main goal of the organisation is to support development at the local level. Objectives of the organisation are: preparing cadastral drawings and technical passports of the buildings throughout the territory of the municipality; support municipality’s economic, social and cultural development; tourism development; enhancing formal and non-formal education; empowering civil society; and attracting foreign direct investments. The organisation establishes international partnership links, plans and implements various cultural, educational, social and infrastructural activities. The organisation has years’ of experience in project proposal development and grant-making and it works actively for fundraising in order to implement the locally important and needful projects. The organisation carries out trainings, workshops, conferences, festivals and etc. on a regular basis. In 2017, organisation received the EVS accreditation and from March 2019 is running an Erasmus+ Volunteering Project: “Youth Development Through Education” and hosting two Italian volunteers from Italy.