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| With the upcoming Christmas and New Year's holidays, GRDP of GIPA would like to extend the best of Season's Greetings to all of our donors, partners, collaborators and friends. The support you have provided has enabled us to not only meet - but also surpass - many of our project and program goals for 2011. We are extremely grateful and equally privileged to have you as a part of our extended team. Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! All the best for 2012! |
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GRDP of GIPA conducted a training session for GeoStat regional interviewers working in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region as well as for Tbilisi office staff.The session was held from 13-16 December 2011at the Vere Palace Hotel in Bakuriani. The following topics were addressed within the three-day agenda: the principles of sampling, the importance of agricultural statistics, dealing with reluctant respondents and animal health safety alongside an overview of the National Animal Health Program. Presenters included USDA NASS statisticians, Michael Steiner and Barbara Rater, visiting from Washington, together with GRDP of GIPA staff, experts and specialists.
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SAFEGUARDING GEORGIA’S HIGHLAND HERDS by Jeffrey Morski, 28 December 2011 Akaki Elanidze, Chair of the Kakheti Veterinarians’ Regional Association (VRA), is using the map on the wall, pointing here and there over top of the words TUSHETI written in big letters in the fancy Georgian script, as he tells about visiting shepherds in these rugged and isolated highlands of northern Georgia and helping them protect their animals. Elanidze is a part of the team of experts assembled for the Georgian Carnivore Conservation Project, organised by the NACRES Center for Biodiversity Conservation and Research and implemented in partnership with GRDP of GIPA and the Kakheti VRA. Read more |
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Marking a Milestone The Center is funded by the Public Service Reform Initiative of the Open Society Institute and the Gori Municipality Local Government Office and implemented within ISEZ, a multi-component umbrella project designed and run by the GRDP of GIPA with funding from the US Department of State and the UNHCR in cooperation with local interest groups. With the main hall filled with people—and the classroom, now emptied of its desks and chairs and turned into an art gallery—it is clear to see that this has been a busy year. |
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EMPOWERING PEOPLE CHANGING LIVES
The simple beauty of this rural landscape, as if made to order, makes it easy to forget that Russian tanks rolled up and down the roads as Russian soldiers burned houses, killed animals and razed orchards during the August 2008 war which hit this region—and especially Gori and its environs—disproportionately hard. Hundreds were injured, displaced and killed in an attack that no one expected and no one deserved. Post-war rehabilitation is ongoing in the region as local and international organizations have risen to the challenges of helping the rural communities regain their lives and livelihoods through various programs of activity and engagement. GRDP of GIPA, with funding from the US Department of State, the UNHCR and supportedby the Office of the State Minister for Reintegration, conceptualized, designed, built and now implements Georgia’s first rural development complex with the specific aim of assisting the rural rehabilitation process in Shida Kartli through providing opportunities for economic, social and community activities. |
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“We covered the whole territory. By car, as far as the roads went, then by horse, as far as the trails went, and then on foot when that was the only way left to go.”
GRDP of GIPA held a presentation of its Professional Education Center project on 12 December 2011 at the Integrated Socio-Economic Zone (ISEZ) in Pkhvenisi village, ShidaKartli region.
Set against a perfectly blue sky, the snow-covered mountains and bright sunshine make for an equally perfect canvas for the village farmhouses and their apple trees and cabbage patches that dot the fields and roadsides of Shida Kartli.