This report presents the results of a gender assessment carried out in Georgia in March 2003 at the request of the USAID/Georgia Mission. It provides a summary of gender relations in Georgia, an analysis of gender integration in the Mission's current and future strategic framework and program portfolio, and recommendations on how the Mission can better mainstream gender in its activities, policies, and procedures. The report analyzes gender in the context of economic growth and private enterprise, as well as trafficking in persons and domestic violence, which are both serious problems in Georgia.

The primary purpose of this gender assessment is to assist USAID/Georgia in integrating gender issues into its strategic thinking, assistance objective (AO) results framework, and performance monitoring plan (PMP). The assessment process involved:

1. analyzing the broad institutional structures and socio-economic and cultural trends in Georgia that determine the gender roles and relationships and gender-based constrains in the country;
2. providing suggestions and highlighting key areas in which the Mission AO frameworks and PMP could better respond to the different roles and status of men and women and potential impact of USAID programming on these roles.