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Revitalizing Communities through Employment and Infrastructure
CHF International launched the 5-year Georgia Employment and Infrastructure Initiative (GEII) in October 2004 with the assistance of USAID. The program is assisting vulnerable communities in achieving greater self-sufficiency and stability by providing vocational training and employment opportunities in construction skills while rehabilitating community-prioritized major infrastructure. The community-driven process, which focuses on hundreds of communities and entrepreneurs across Georgia, aims to achieve the following objectives:
- Promoting and enhancing entrepreneurship, incomes and employment opportunities through economic facilitation and outreach.
- Increasing capacities for public-private partnerships in rural areas through innovative partnerships between government, the private sector, and civil society emphasizing planning and strategy.
Economic investment projects supported by CHF are competitively selected based on their potential to create and sustain jobs, increase incomes, provide cost savings and stimulate entrepreneurial activity. These projects—which generally complement and enable other community-based initiatives—include:
Economic Infrastructure: Irrigation systems, market rehabilitation, produce storage facilities, roads, etc.
Income Generation: Greenhouses, small-scale food processing, tourism and handicrafts.
