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On August 13th, 2015 APRC at ISET Policy Institute organized a workshop on crop insurance reform in Georgia. The goal of the workshop was to consult with stakeholders to define specific objectives of the proposed policy interventions and to select policy options for further analysis.

The following stakeholders attended the workshop: Agricultural Projects Management Agency (APMA), Georgian Insurance Association (GIA), insurance companies, Georgian Farmers’ Association (GFA), a USAID project Governing for Growth (G4G), and Agroinsurance International.

The workshop was opened by Pati Mamardashvili, the head of APRC (Agricultural Policy Research Center), who made introductory remarks and outlined the goal of the workshop.

On July 13, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the ISET Policy Institute and JSC BIA. The BIA is a subsidiary company of Alliance Group Holding, which manages the largest continuously updated business information database. This aggregates information from more than 23,000 the most active companies registered in Georgia. It supplies the local companies and international business information companies, credit rating agencies, with all relevant business information (www.bcat.ge).
The document was signed by Eric Livny, President of the ISET Policy Institute, and Aieti Kukava, CEO JSC BIA. The Memorandum envisages planning and implementation of joint projects and research activities.

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