The Eastern European Centre for Multiparty Democracy (EECMD), with the financial support of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), carries out a new project, “Democracy Needs Democrats: Strengthening Political Parties and Movements”. The project aims to increase the policy-making, organizational capabilities, effectiveness, and sustainability of four political parties/movements in Georgia by assisting them in the implementation of their strategic plans developed as a result of the strategic planning process with the assistance of the EECMD under the project “Democracy Needs Democrats: Strengthening Political Parties and Movements Through Strategic Planning” implemented in 2019-2020.

The EECMD will work with four political parties/movements – “Aleko Elisashvili – Citizens,” “For Justice,” “Lelo for Georgia,” and “Shame Movement” – to advance the results of the previous project and implement the sections of the action plans developed through the strategic planning process.

The EECMD will focus on strengthening organizational resilience, intra-party democracy, and women’s political participation in partner political organizations. The EECMD will work with each political party/movement bilaterally and offer partners additional capacity building inputs that correspond to a particular strategic plan’s priorities. The activities will be individually organized for every participant organization and will be tailored to their needs and cooperation areas between EECMD and its partners.