Developing Regional Information and Voter Empowerment for Democracy

The “Drive Democracy” project is implemented by EECMD in partnership with the Economic PolicyResearch Centre (EPRC) and financially supported by the USAID with an overall focus to empower and educate the Georgian voters to better understand, represent and advance their legitimate interests. This will be achieved by the innovative combination of merging capacity building of voters with policy dialogue between all regional and national stakeholders and reinforcing the process with citizen-led local projects to ensure accountability and responsiveness of elected officials in the five regions of Georgia: Tbilisi, Kakheti Shida-Kartli, Imereti and Adjara. The combination of the improved capacity to better understand and articulate one’s political and economic interests, heightened organizational effectiveness and financial capability for voter group action to achieve accountability of their representatives and the establishment and operation of policy dialogue formats to democratically pursue common interests will substantially alter the status quo towards more responsible, transparent and accountable politics and governance in Georgia.