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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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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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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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05.10.2023

Green Alternative’s Comments and Recommendations on the Tbilisi Transport Plan

The Tbilisi Transport Plan (TTP), formerly known as the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP), is a crucial document guiding the capital toward sustainable mobility.
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04.09.2023

Tbilisi’s transport policy conundrums: between resolution and resistance

In 2018, Tbilisi authorities set out to decrease the city’s car dependency, reduce traffic jams, improve air quality and develop better infrastructure for walking and cycling. But despite investment from the EBRD and ADB, there has been little improvement.
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03.08.2023

The Georgian Road to Russia: when everything goes south

The North-South Corridor, widely promoted by international financial institutions, aims to facilitate the transport of goods as the ‘only land access to the Russian Federation’, as well as to Iran, Armenia and Azerbaijan, running through Georgia.
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13.03.2023

EBRD funds channelled to Kremlin affiliates: Why the purchase of Tbilisi metro cars from a Russian company should not proceed as planned

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is providing funding to Tbilisi City Hall to purchase metro cars for the Georgian capital’s metro system from Russian company Metrowagonmash. But Metrowagonmash is not just any Russian company.

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