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Developing Scheme

Emerging Democracies Programme

European Parliament Programme

“I am committed to creating a strong and transparent Parliament and a healthy, developing economy for Georgia. The Parliament of Georgia and leading representatives of all sectors and size of business believe that the IABP's Business and Parliament scheme for Georgia will be an important tool to help them achieve this objective. I am delighted that the EU supports the IABP in the development of the Business and Parliament Scheme of Georgia as a transferable model for other emerging democracies”.

H E Mrs Nino Burjanadze, Chairperson of the Parliament.

Emerging Democracies Programme

Goal: To foster economic development and good governance in emerging democracies through institutionalisation non-corrupt and transparent relationships between legislators and economic operators.
IABP establishes and builds capacity of the national schemes in emerging democracies

Contributes by sharing its “international protocol” for transparent and non-corrupt relationship and understanding
Facilitates interchanges using resources of the national schemes and other stakeholders
Achieves sustainability of the schemes and carries out exit strategy

Georgian Business and Parliament Model Scheme

Supported by the European Commission

and the Government of Luxemburg

Soutenu par le gouvernement de Luxembourg
Supported by the Government of Luxemburg

Project Objectives:

to strengthen the representation and oversight capacity of the Parliament of Georgia regarding issues of economic development, including private sector development;

to increase parliamentarians’ understanding of increasingly complex issues of business and the economy in order to make the Parliament pro-active with regard to economic, budgetary and fiscal policy making;

to improve expertise of the Parliament to support the formulation of transparent and predictable economic policies;

to develop a model of a business and parliament scheme transferable to other emerging democracies.


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