Rights based digitalisation

The Embassy of Sweden in Tbilisi provided financial assistance to the Georgian Farmers’ Association (GFA) to support the implementation of its 2020-2024 strategic plan. This evaluation assesses the relevance of the GFA’s strategy objectives and design, as well as its overall implementation, using qualitative and quantitative methods, including stakeholder interviews, focus group discussions, a survey of GFA members and a review of documentary sources.
Findings show that the GFA strategy is adequate and flexibly adapted to respond to new priorities and challenges, such as supporting Georgia’s EU accession process. The GFA met the key performance indicators and contributed to the achievement of various outcomes set out in the strategy. Furthermore, its advocacy work contributed to legislative processes, although it requires stronger evidence-based analysis. The GFA performance is assessed as very positive based on all sources of evidence.
On this basis, the evaluation proposes that the Embassy of Sweden keep supporting the GFA and provides recommendations to the GFA on potential areas for enhancement, to inform the formulation of its new strategic plan.

Democratic change and improved respect for human rights are essential for people
living in poverty and under oppression, by enabling them to influence their living
conditions and hold governments accountable. Only one third of the world’s population
is today living under such conditions. In recent years a trend towards more authoritarian
forms of governance has been seen globally. Sida contributes to the protection of
democracy and continued democratisation through its programmes and projects in the
thematic area of Democracy and Human Rights, which amounted to SEK 6.4 billion in 2023.
This makes democracy and human rights Sida’s largest thematic area, equivalent
to approximately 26 percent of Sida’s total disbursements.