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On July 31 to August 2, the APRC attended a workshop on Agritourism Development, an event organized by the Agrarian Committee of the Parliament of Georgia and UN Women. The APRC has been commissioned to conduct a Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) of the Draft Law on Agritourism.
The workshop was attended by representatives of Parliament, the Ministry of Environment Protection and Agriculture, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of the Economy and Sustainable Development, and the National Tourism Agency, as well as elements of the private sector and a number of NGOs.
The main objective of the workshop was to discuss the Draft Law on Agritourism. The representative of the Agrarian Committee of the Parliament of Georgia presented and went through the Draft Law in detail, after which the workshop participants provided their feedback and suggestions regarding the document. The discussion was followed by a presentation from the APRC, the component being RIA concepts and a detailed description of the eight-step methodology employed in RIA. Furthermore, the APRC team highlighted that RIA will also focus on gender analysis.
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On November 28-29, Deputy Head of the APRC Salome Gelashvili attended the annual "Dushanbe Economic Meeting 2019" conference in Tajikistan. The conference was organized in the framework of the "Towards Rural Inclusive Growth and Economic Resilience" project (implemented by) GIZ and was devoted to the topic of developing the competitiveness of the agro-industrial complex in Tajikistan.
Ms Gelashvili discussed the development of EU-funded agricultural cooperatives in Georgia and shared the country’s experience regarding its cooperation with the European Union. She began by presenting the legislative framework of the country and tax concessions given to cooperatives, as well as other forms of state support, before explaining the results of annual surveys conducted by ISET-PI in order to assess the progress of the cooperatives. She concluded her presentation with the lessons learned and a number of recommendations for the future, including more of a focus on service cooperatives and the application of a bottom-up rather than top-down approach during the development of cooperatives.
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