Facilitating cooperation among Georgia’s smallholders is one of the main focuses of the ENPARD project, of which ISET is a (small) part. ENPARD has been active in Georgia since 2013, and its work has been extensive and its efforts invaluable. An evaluation effort coordinated by the ISET Policy Institute has uncovered some interesting facts and figures from comparative analysis between 2014 and 2015.
Implemented by four NGO consortia since January 2014, in its first year ENPARD supported 82 cooperatives, with a total of 775 members (37% of whom were females), while in 2015, ENPARD endorsed a further 118 coops made up of 1180 members (34% of whom were females).
On 26-28 September 2016, an ENPARD study tour, involving ENPARD Georgia, ENPARD Moldova and ENPARD Armenia, was organized by the EU Delegation to Armenia and the FAO Office in Yerevan. The European Neighborhood Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development (ENPARD) was launched in Georgia in 2013, in Armenia in 2014, and recently started operations in Moldova.
The delegations from Georgia and Moldova comprised a total of 16 participants, representatives of both countries’ agricultural ministries, line agencies, ENPARD partner international and local NGOs, as well as farmer associations. ISET Policy Institute representative Rati Kochlamazashvili participated in the study tour as a representative of the CARE consortium of ENPARD Georgia.