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Capacity Building in Strategic Decision-Making: Lessons from the Development Experience in the Asia-Pacific Region
22,800,000 yen[Grant Project]
Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (Georgia)
The following activities will be conducted in this final year of the project. The conference 2. was added as a result of a change in plans.
- Training course for policy practitioners
- Selection of course participants (August 2004)
Government agencies and NGOS in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia
Five candidates will be selected through screening of application documents and interviews
- Preparations for training course (September 2004)
Georgian specialists will utilize GFSIS's expertise in conducting training programs to compile teaching materials for the course.
- Training Course (November 2004)
A two-week training course will be conducted in Georgia with researchers from the implementing organization and other specialists serving as lecturers.
- Compiling a report (January to February 2005)
Reports on the training course and overall project will be compiled by the end of February 2005.
- South Caucasus Security Conference (Participants: 150 (25 from overseas) February 2005.
The following is the agenda for the conference:
- Address by Dr. Saakashvilli, President of the Republic of Georgia
- South Caucasus: Situation since independence and future outlook
- Russian, Iranian, and Turkish Diplomacy toward the Caucasus
- Strategic perspectives toward the Caucasus from the viewpoint of Western and East Asian counties.
- Economic system after the transitional economy
- Security and confidence building in the South Caucasus
- Toward peaceful coexistence in the South Caucasus (Policy Recommendations)
A report on the security conference and policy recommendations will be compiled in March 2005.
Specialists from East Asian countries that are also involved in our foundation's self-operated project "Capacity Building and Promoting Exchange of Central Eurasian Young Leaders" will attend the meeting to assist in project implementation.
(Final year of a two-year project)
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