The FINANCIAL — Non-governmental organisations will work together with authorities in Mtskheta municipality to develop and implement programmes for energy efficiency and renewable and sustainable development.
This collaboration will take place as part of the EU-supported CLEEN project and the respective Memorandum of Cooperation was signed on 8 November, according to EU Neighbours East Info.
Mtskheta municipality includes more than 70 localities, including the city of Mtskheta, the country’s former capital and a world-famous pilgrimage and tourism destination, as well as several hard-to-reach villages, known as “high mountain villages”. Among them is the village of Bevreti, the “lost” village in the mountains, which became the winner of the EU-supported CLEEN project competition with its energy efficiency project.
“The village of Bevreti is a picturesque place in the mountains 20 km from Tbilisi, with a wonderful monastery. But our village is hard to reach: the road is bad, there is no water supply, electricity appeared only a year ago,” says Nino Mchedlidze, a local activist.
“The issues of energy supply in the region are closely linked to the problem of energy efficiency, and the potential in this area is huge,” says the head of Mtskheta municipality, Nugzar Khukhunaishvili.
The CLEEN project is a three-year project promoting the development of a regional partnership of more than 30 civil society organisations in the four project countries: Armenia, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. Its main focus is to make energy efficiency a more important topic for the target regions.
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