The goal of the vocational education support programme is to promote the socioeconomic integration of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and ecomigrants and improve their living conditions by creating employment prospects, and it aims to do so by promoting the vocational education of IDPs and ecomigrants in order to increase their competitiveness in the labour market.

On 14 December, ISET Policy Institute’s Salome Gelashvili, Practice Head for agriculture and rural policy, presented the results of their Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) of the Draft Law on Food Loss and Waste.

During a meeting held at Rooms Hotel Tbilisi on 2 November, Mariam Katsadze and Giorgi Papava from a research team at ISET Policy Institute presented the results from the latest assessment of the economic dimensions within local creative industries.

On 17-19 October, Davit Keshelava and Mariam Lobjanidze of the ISET Policy Institute’s research team were part of the international experts’ team that conducted a training session that aimed at strengthening the capacity of public servants on Gender Impact Assessment (GIA) as part of the UN Women’s training cycle on Gender Impact Assessment (GIA) institutionalization.

The Estonian model of Corporate Income Taxation (CIT) that came into force on January 1, 2017, in Georgia is based on the distributed profit taxation regime, according to which retained corporate income is tax-free, and profit is taxed at 15% only when distributed.