Over 170 civil servants have successfully completed training in Public Policy Analysis initiated by the Administration of the Government of Georgia with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the UK Government. The certificate award ceremony took place on March 26, bringing together representatives of Georgian public sector organizations, the international and donor community, CSOs, academia and experts.

Kakha Kakhishvili, Head of the Administration of the Government of Georgia; Louisa Vinton, Head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Georgia; Tamar Trapaidze, Governance Projects Manager of the Good Governance Fund, British Embassy in Georgia; and Giorgi Simongulashvili, Partner at the Consulting Company GEC awarded the training participants with certificates of completion.

“An evidence-based decision making by the Government has an important role to play in helping understand the country’s pace of development, results achieved and challenges facing the Government,” said Kakha Kakhishvili.

The training course supports the Government of Georgia in one of the six major policy areas of its Public Administration Reform (PAR) Roadmap 2020: Policy Planning and Coordination.

“We congratulate today’s graduates for their aptitude and diligence,” said UNDP’s Louisa Vinton. “Their new expertise will help build public confidence in a professional civil service by ensuring that Government policies – and the funding allocated to implement them – achieve their intended results. UNDP is proud to support this initiative as part of a broader program to support Georgia’s ambitious public administration reform.”

The training was conducted by a consortium of three organizations: Public Administration International (PAI), GEC and Consulting and Training Center (CTC) in October 2018-March 2019.

The training curriculum was developed on the basis of a prior needs assessment conducted by the consortium. The aim was to increase the capacity of Georgian ministries in strategic planning, policy development and the policy cycle process, while at the same time addressing a wide range of challenges faced by the policy units of the ministries, such as: varying level of knowledge and experience in policy planning and coordination mechanisms across public sector, coupled with weak linkage between policy planning, budgeting and implementation. The trainings will be accompanied by consultations and coaching of ministerial staff to produce high-quality policy documents.

The training is expected to encourage consistent and professional application of new policy cycle management guidelines that are currently being drafted by the Government with UNDP and UK Government assistance, as part of a wider initiative in support of Public Administration Reform.

Media contact

• Baia Tsanava, Administration of the Government of Georgia, btsanava@gov.ge, +995 599 750175
• Sophie Tchitchinadze UNDP in Georgia, sophie.tchitchinadze@undp.org, +995 599 196907
• Ira Sulava, UNDP in Georgia, irine.sulava@undp.org, +995 599 579105