PROJECT: CAMPAIGN FOR PROTECTING CIVIL INTERESTS OF CONSUMER SERVICE USERS

Aim: Improving the legal state of the citizens living in Georgian regions in the process of receiving communal service

Objectives;
1. Diagnosing the activities of communal service provider companies (electricity, water, gas supply) in the frame of protecting consumer rights;
2. Preparing recommendation in view of improving the state of protecting consumer service provider companies (electricity, water, gas supply) in Georgian regions.
3. Lobbying campaign to consider recommendations prepared within project framework.

Project implementation site:
1. Kvemo Kartli – Rustavi
2. Shida Kartli - Gori
3. Kakheti - Telavi
4. Samtskhe-Javakheti – Akhaltsikhe
5. Imereti - Kutaisi
6. Guria - Lanchkhuti
7. Mtskheta – Mtianeti- Mtskheta
8. Samegrelo Upper Svaneti - Zugdidi
9. Ajara – Kobuleti and Khelvachauri.

Partners involved in the project:
- Institute of Democracy – Kobuleti, Khelvachauri;
- Civil Development Agency (SDA) – Rustavi;
- Gori Information Centre – Gori;
- Kakheti Regional Development Agency – Telavi;
- Union of Democratic Meskheti Citizens – Akhaltsikhe;
- Kutaisi Branch of Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association – Kutaisi;
- Lanchkhuti Information Centre - Lanchkhuti;
- National Centre for Protection from Violence – Mtskheta;
- Atinati – Zugdidi.

Project duration: 01/02/2014 – 30/06/2014

Project is implemented within the frame of the Program by East-West Management Institute -- „Development of Public Policy, Advocacy and Civil Society in Georgia (G-PAC).
Implementation of this program became possible as the result of active support from American People, with financial support from USAID.
Project is supported by Regional Civil Society Network (R-CSN).