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Signing of the Grant Agreement on Core Support between Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the Rondeli Foundation

On October 4, 2017 Rondeli Foundation hosted the graduation of the class 2016-2017 of the training program “Capacity-building of the Georgian Leadership Community for Improved Decision-making and Negotiation Skills" and a ceremony of signing of the Grant Agreement on Core Support between the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the Rondeli Foundation.

The opening remarks were delivered by Dr. Ekaterine Metreveli, President of the Rondeli Foundation, Molly Lien, Counsellor/Head of Development Cooperation, Embassy of Sweden, Archil Karaulashvili, the First Deputy State Minister of European and Euro Atlantic Integration and CBGL program graduates.

Since 2009 the Foundation has been implementing the abovementioned program with the support from Sida aiming at capacity-building of the Georgian leadership community in policy analysis and negotiation skills. Totally more than 230 public servants representing different governmental agencies graduated the program since its very beginning.

The Swedish Government has already provided the core support to Rondeli Foundation in 2015-2017. The new contract will continue the financial support for the period of 2017-2020.

The core support contributes to strengthening of Rondeli Foundation as an independent, sustainable policy institute and to meeting its main goal of effectively contributing to the decision making in the country though research/analysis, capacity building and outreach.