GEO/99/013
Total budget: USD 200,000
UNDP Sector: Reforming Governance
Starting date: December 1, 1999
Duration: 2 years

Georgia, as well as other CIS countries, yet had not clearly and fully defined its national security agenda. National security problems have become a serious challenge to country’s political elite due to the lack of necessary experience, strategic culture, and technical means. The necessity for identification of internal and external threats, creation of software providing development for different security scenarios, establishment and functioning of analytical institution became a quite urgent problem of planning and implementation of a security policy for Georgia. The project should be considered as a part of the state national security strategy.

The project aims at establishing and supporting the Scientific-Analytical Research Centre at National Security Council (NSC), which will have powerful technical base (including corresponding software system) for obtaining, processing, analysis of information, and capability to develop recommendations for the national security planing and implementation.

1. To establish the Scientific-Analytical Research Centre at NSC;

2. To create, through the in-dept study, the database containing information on the most important threats to national security of Georgia;

3. To conduct complex analysis of the main threats to national security;

4. To create software providing different scenarios for preventing the most dangerous threats.

1. The Scientific-Analytical Research Centre at NSC will be fully operational and sustainable, the needed equipment will be installed and the software will be created;

2. NSC will be provided with the uniform and reliable information system based on the modern scientific methodology;

3. Analytical and forecast scenarios will be elaborated which will increase the capacity for decision making;

4. Public and experts’ opinion on national security issues is investigated and analysed