Know-How Group Georgia

Land Acquisition and Resettlement Action Plan was prepared for the project of Arranging Dighomi Meadows municipal park, planned within the framework of the loan agreement signed between Georgia and the Asian Development Bank.

The executive body of the planned activity is Tbilisi City Hall, and the implementing agency is the Tbilisi Development Fund.

The aim of the project is to improve the green environment of Tbilisi, to provide recreational and urban amenities for the city, which is due to its unique location on the banks of the river Mtkvari.

Project: Arranging Dighomi Meadows municipal park

Donor: Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Objective: Improve the green environment of Tbilisi, to provide recreational and urban amenities for the city, which is due to its unique location on the banks of the river Mtkvari.

Location: Tbilisi municipality.

On January 16th, 2023a contract was signed between Know-How group (KHG) and The Regional Environmental Centre for the Caucasus (RECC) for preparation of detailed project design and tender documentation for the arrangement of livestock watering system and agroforestry measures on the selected pilot pastures of Naniani village in Gurjaani Municipality within the planned Grant Project “Achieving Land Degradation Neutrality Targets of Georgia through Restoration and Sustainable Management of Degraded Pasturelands” funded by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Global Environmental Facility (GEF).

Under the Project and within the context of Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN), Georgia aims to maintain and increase the amount of healthy and productive land resources in line with the national sustainable development goals.

According to land type (and tenure) demonstration of sustainable pastureland management practices and scaling up successful approaches are planned and involve a variety of appropriate approaches to avoid, reduce, and reserve land degradation.

The main purpose of signing the contract between KHG and RECC is to ensure adequate water supply for livestock, as well as to identify the necessary agroforestry measures for creating shade and improving pasture conditions, and preparing relevant detailed design and tender documentation.