Current Projects Local Government Transparency Civic participation in local decision making is low and public control over the government is weak. This situation provides an excellent ground for corruption, declines the effectiveness of local government and discredits the reform as well as democracy values in general. Eurasia Foundation Promoting CBO Development in Georgia Nowadays, special consideration is given to CBOs as they should become powerful community tool that will actively cooperate with newly elected local government and play a major role in formation of democratic and open society at locals. The program aims at supporting the democratic reforms and the establishment of market economy at local levels by boosting professional skills of members of local councils. Inadequate reflection of local interests in political decision-making summons forth contradictions between local and central interest and ends in alienation of the center and peripheries.
New realities demand the leaders to be innovative and highly self-motivated.
In the complicated environment they address problems that have no common solutions and uniform methodologies to deal with.