Kärnstöd till Transparency International Georgia 2022-2025 Core support to Transparency International Georgia 2022-2025 Kärnstöd till TI Georgia syftar till att minska möjligheterna till korruption genom att främja öppenhet, ansvarsskyldighet och integritet i offentliga institutioner. Core support to TI Georgia aims at reducing opportunities for corruption by promoting transparency, accountability and integrity in public institutions. Transparency International Georgia (TIG) is a Georgian NGO and acts as a local chapter of the Transparency International.Starting in 2012 Embassy of Sweden began providing project funding to the program of TI Georgia. After the first implemented project in 2012-2014, in 2015 funding modality was changed and Sweden has been providing core support to the TI Georgia from 2015 onwards.In mid 2017 the Embassy conducted evaluation of the core support contribution implemented that time to the TIG. The conclusion of the evaluation overall was rather positive and the evaluation team recommended to continue providing core support to the TIG.In 2021 TIG applied for one more core support phase and requested to have a core support for the years 2022-2025 with requested volume of 14 870 000 SEK.The overall goal of the TI Georgia is to support Georgia in the creation of “a mature democracy and society - free of corruption, inclusive, fair, transparent and accountable”. The purpose of the intervention is formulated as follows: “National and local governments operate in a transparent and accountable manner”. TI Georgia’s interventions in different areas will incorporate a number of cross-cutting issues, including environment, poverty and gender.For achieving the stated goal TI Georgia has developed its own strategy for upcoming years and commits itself to eradicate all forms of corruption in Georgia. For achieving strategy goals the TI Georgia puts efforts into government monitoring, high level advocacy and mobilizing for change of active citizens of Georgia. TI Georgia sees itself as a) watchdog, b) think-tank, c) civil society leader and d) expert on relevant issues. From the four roles the TI Georgia highlights its role of a watch-dog as being of particular value and importance. The overall objective of the intervention is defined as "to support building and empowering state institutions, develop good governance and the rule of law, ensure the transparency and direct accountability of the state institutions, support fair and democratic elections (for this aim including election observations) and protect universally recognized human rights".

For achieving overall objective the intervention plans through working towards few specific objectives:

Objective 1: Contribute to reduced opportunities for corruption (including high-level corruption) in the executive branch

Objective 2: Contribute to a more transparent, accountable and citizen-responsive local governance

Objective 3: Promote transparency, accountability, and integrity in Parliament and effectiveness of Parliament as an oversight institution and a branch of power counter-balancing the Executive

Objective 4: Promote more pluralistic political system through greater transparency and accountability in political parties and more competitive and fair elections

Objective 5: Promote independence, transparency, accountability, and integrity in the justice system

Objective 6: Promoting independence, professionalism and investigative activities of journalists to empower media as an anti-corruption watchdog

Objective 7: Raising awareness on matters of high public importance and consolidating efforts to support Georgias Euro-Atlantic integration