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30.09.2025

EBRD’s toxic bond with Indorama: Funding polluter in Georgia’s shrinking democracy

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) continues to back one of its most controversial clients in one of Europe’s most troubled democracies. Human rights, labour laws, and the environment are all at stake
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05.05.2025

Bypass: the hidden social toll of Georgia’s East-West Highway on its towns and villages

upported by international development banks and promoted as a strategic corridor linking Asia to Europe, Georgia’s East-West highway is central to the country’s ambitions of becoming a regional transit hub. With a price tag of EUR 1.2 billion, much of which is financed through loans from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), European Investment Bank (EIB), and the World Bank (WB), the highway construction project was framed as a symbol of progress, promising speed, connectivity and economic growth.
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25.02.2025

Sustainable Urban Mobility Policy in Georgia

The current institutional framework hinders the implementation of mobility policies in a proactive, comprehensive, and integrated manner, both at the local and national levels.
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22.10.2024

A flawed rollout: How the EBRD’s efforts to tackle harassment on Tbilisi public transport have fallen short

The EU’s Gender Action Plan for Georgia, disclosed in March of this year, provides information on several other projects that the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will be financing with the aim of promoting gender equality in the country.
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04.07.2024

Unsolved problems of the North-South Corridor

The Kvesheti–Kobi highway, part of the International North–South Transport Corridor, cuts through Georgia’s picturesque Khada Valley. Financed by the EBRD and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the highway has been an environmental disaster for the landscape, biodiversity, and heritage of the region. If that weren’t enough, the local community has to contend with land grabs and intimidation for simply raising their concerns.
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06.06.2024

Natural Disaster in Guria in 2023

Climate change in Georgia leads to the activation of natural processes and an increase in the risk of disasters.
Blogs
24.05.2024

Impact of climate change on women

Women living in Georgia realize that climate change has a significant impact on their lives. However, urban and rural women perceive and experience the impacts of climate change differently.
Blogs
17.05.2024

Russian Law must be withdrawn unconditionally

Civil society member of Green Alternative Manana Kochladze shares her takeaways from the meeting and concerns about Georgia’s newly passed ‘foreign agents’ law.
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02.05.2024

The promise and perils of Georgia’s East–West Highway project

Khevi, a village cradled by the slopes of the Likhi Range, lies 140 kilometres west of Tbilisi. Reaching this rural community from Georgia’s capital involves driving along the dangerous and as-yet unfinished Rikoti section of the East–West Highway.

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