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OUR EXPERIENCE Regional Development Association (RDA) is a non-profit organization registered in Georgia, founded in 2010 by a team of successful professionals of private and development sectors. RDA has been operating through total staff of about 40 full-time people, from a head office in Tbilisi and field offices in Akhaltsikhe (Samtskhe-Javakheti), Marneuli and Tsalka (Kvemo Kartli). RDA has been implementing since 2011 the Community Development Initiative (CDI) program funded by BP and its partners in Samtskhe Javakheti Region of Georgia. The project fosters socio-economic development of rural communities through formation of community-based organizations that raise funding and implement infrastructure rehabilitation projects. RDA coordinates community concerns to local government and civil society organizations in target villages. The program also creates revenue generation opportunities for locals by enabling peer-to-peer knowledge transfer and by funding and technical assistance of rural entrepreneurs to start-up or scale-up their businesses. RDA’s geographical coverage expanded to West Georgia during 2014-2017, after gaining an opportunity to implement Small Farmers Co-operation component of EU funded ENPARD Georgia program as part of the consortia led by CARE International in the Caucasus. RDA was in charge of field operations for development of sustainable agricultural cooperatives in seven districts of Samegrelo, Guria and Kvemo Svaneti. RDA was also developing the capacity of Georgian Farmers Association to lead a policy dialogue between the government and the farmers. In 2015, RDA became implementing entity of Micro and Small Entrepreneurship Support (MSES) Project in Samtskhe Javakheti and Kvemo Kartli. We built capacity of up to 4,500 locals and funded about 1700 small rural entrepreneurs throughout a 3-year period. The project is implemented under the Government’s initiative ‘Produce in Georgia’ administered by Enterprise Georgia. The MSES project is based on the successful small business assistance model delivered by the Community Development Initiative (CDI). The model which was shared by the Government of Georgia and applied across all regions in 2015 upon initiative of RDA. We consider this to be our major advocacy achievement! Since 2016, RDA became a partner with Chemonics, a leading US based organization, to implement a 5-year USAID private sector development project Zrda in Samtskhe Javakheti and Kvemo Kartli. In Zrda project, RDA is responsible for field operations, which include variety of rural development activities related to agriculture, tourism and ICT.