Mission Georgia

CHIFFRES

Mortality infant: 41‰
Life expectancy at birth: 70.5
HDI : 0.732; ranked 100/177
Actual GDP/inhabitant ($) : 778

Beneficiaries
directly: 4,414
indirectly: 50,000
Staff
local: 17
MCH: 1
expatriate: 2
Sources of funding : ECHO, MdM
Budget 2005 : 453,244 euros

Two years after the “Rose Revolution”, Mikhael Saakashvili is struggling to keep his promises of change: Georgia is a poor state, with no energy resources and, despite notable economic growth due to an energetic struggle against corruption, 52% of the population still live below the poverty line. A health system reform has been started but it is still quite muddled.

Help for reproductive health

Mingrelia Region

Activities:

Having assessed the needs, MdM decided to run its reproductive health project in four districts of Mingrelia Region.
The project has several aspects:

  • renovating health structures;
  • providing medical equipment, drugs and consumables;
  • setting up stock management systems;
  • training medical staff: monitoring pregnancies, neonatal resuscitation, pregnancy-related diseases, etc.;
  • improving data collection and epidemiological monitoring;
  • improving therapeutic protocols and the referral system.

Outlook:

MdM is continuing its activities in Mingrelia region and plans to extend its project into Abkhazia region.

July 2006