GEO/99/010
Total budget: USD 173.024
UNDP Sector: Political Affairs – Political and Security Activities
Starting Date: September 1999
Duration: 3 years

Background:

The notion of national security all essential condition for sustainable existence and development of nation, as of cultural-political unity. Conventially, national security stood for the protection of a country’s territorial integrity and internal political stability. Nowadays, Georgian Government is confronting the concrete and pragmatic task: in the course of statehood building to form the system of national security and its corresponding management system, ensuring effective functioning of the latter. Responding to the GOG’s request for support in conceptual development of the system of national security UNDP in the frame of its project "Public Administration Reform and Civil Society" has approved its 12 month-long continuation for development of the subject-Non-military Aspects of National Security of Georgia. The actual project is considered as further development of already accumulated experience in this field.

Objective:

Capacity Building for National Security Policy Management aims strengthening and developing the system of regular monitoring, analysis and co-ordination of all the processes of formation the corresponding (non-military) part of the national security system embedded in different sectors and branches of the whole governance system. This capacity is seen especially to include the development of processes by which each of the elements of the governance system interacts in contributing to the processes of national security policy formation. This development is expected to result also in the building of nationhood in responsible citizenship, as well as to the economic and social development of the nation.

• Creation of conceptiual base for the national security of Georgia

• Strengthening of state’s security policies for the all main non-military aspects of national security;

• Development of a conceptional background for the legislative and normative regulation of functioning of national security system;

• Strengthening capacity for security policy management in the Ministry of Foreign affairs;

• Development of the programme for building national security monitoring system;

Main activities:

1. Drafting final National Security political document

2. Strengthening public awareness around the State’s national security policy through mass-media;

3. Organisation of working groups in accordance with the identified main concrete problem areas of the Georgian security, designing of policy document for the strategy of maintaining the security conditions in each of the main selected component of national security;

4. Drafting document for legal base of national security system and a programme for building national security monitoring system;

5. Organising of the international conference around the problems of Georgia’s national security.

Expected outcomes:

1. Politically approved and publicly presented document – "National Security Conception of Georgia";

2. Policy documents specifying State’s policies in economic security, social security, administrative security and regional security;

3. Designed conceptional document for developing of national security system has legal base;

4. Special unit organised within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responsible for regular supervision of the national security conditions;

5. Documents of international conference "National Security Policy of the Government of Georgia";

6. Designed programme for building national security monitoring system.