Georgia

On-the-ground activities of the INRMW Program are located in the Rioni and Alazani-Iori Basins. The natural resource management challenges in these river basins are representative of those faced by the country as a whole. They were identified as basins where USAID had a significant opportunity to make an impact through introducing innovative state-of-the-art approaches to watershed and natural resources management.

INRMW’s primary goal is to improve the current and future lives of people in Georgia by utilizing and managing natural resources more sustainably, including water, soil, vegetation, and the ecosystem that encompass them. This will be accomplished by:

Objective 1: Reduce threats to natural resource sustainability in targeted watersheds by introducing innovative approaches and practical models of participatory integrated natural resources management.

Objective 2: Empower local communities and authorities by promoting local governance mechanisms that enable rural people to advocate for change that better their lives.

Objective 3: Achieve tangible results in behavior change of women and men that visible illustrate the linkages between ecosystem services and human benefits.

Objective 4: Increase capacity for integrated and adaptive natural resources management at community, municipal, regional, and national levels by developing knowledge and skills and by improving management tools within key institutions.

Objective 5: Catalyze more widespread implementation of integrated natural resource management by raising public awareness and supporting the development of more enabling policy and institutional frameworks.

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