Title of the project: Improving the situation of migrants in Ajara region

Donor: European Union

Budget: 417 000 €

Implementation period: 10.06.2015 – 10.07.2017

Target audience:

• Representatives of eco-migrant families which will be able to work in social enterprises and having source of income for their families;
• The part of ecological and labour migrants which will be able to acquire new vocational skills and abilities or to improve existing skills and abilities, to work and improve socio-economic conditions;
• Migrants who will be able to improve sanitary-hygienic conditions and reducing risks of dissemination of infectious diseases;
• Migrants, who will receive legal consultations and legal services in the frameworks of the project;
• Labour migrants residing in the communities of Ajara region, who will participate in public lectures and will increase the awareness level regarding the issues of the migration and protection of their own rights.

Project overall objective: Supporting establishment of decent living conditions in the long term perspective for the returned, potential and ecological migrants, connecting issues of the migration and development and raising the level of migrants' involvement in the processes of the region’s economic development.

Project objectives:

• Development and implementation of mechanisms for strengthening the economic capabilities of migrants living in the social houses located in the municipalities of Ajara;
• Shaping the healthy and safe environment in the spontaneous settlements of ecological and migrant workers, supporting their social integration;
• Supporting such groups of returned and potential migrant workers (including women), who have the desire and the opportunity to start their own business in Georgia, to be involved in the processes of economic development of their own municipality and region.

Activities, envisaged within the project:

• Establishment of social enterprises;
• Establishment of small enterprises;
• Promotion of vocational training;
• Construction of the houses of hygiene;
• Legal assistance to migrants;
• Formation of migrants' (incuding ecological migrants) CSOs

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