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Adaptability

1 delivery linked to Institutional responsiveness.

Georgiasince 2020delivered and closedbears on Institutional responsiveness

Temporary unemployment benefit and one-off support for the self-employed, 2020

Georgia, which had no unemployment benefit, announced a temporary GEL 200 monthly benefit for laid-off formal workers and a one-off payment for self-employed and informal workers on 24 April 2020, a month after declaring a state of emergency, and by September 2021 had paid 231,487 unemployed people and 307,236 self-employed people.

231,487 people, unemployed people paid the temporary unemployment benefit, 2021-09. 307,236 people, self-employed people whose activity was affected and who received support, 2021-09. World Bank, Implementation Status and Results Report, Georgia Emergency COVID-19 Response Project (P173911), sequence 3, 10 September 2021, retrieved 2026-10-02.

The move, and what it needed

The government used the Revenue Service's payroll tax records to identify laid-off formal workers and pay them a flat monthly benefit through the State Employment Support Agency, and opened an online portal for a one-off payment to self-employed and informal workers with no declared income.

Preconditions

  • Monthly payroll tax declarations linking workers to employers and bank accounts
  • An employment agency able to verify eligibility against social assistance lists
  • External emergency finance (World Bank and AIIB) committed within weeks

Limits: Both counts are in one sentence on page 1 of the status report, with no table behind them and no date of first payment; the timing comes from the project appraisal document (http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/949581588712278110/pdf/Georgia-Emergency-COVID-19-Response-Project.pdf: state of emergency on 21 March 2020 in paragraph 9, printed page 12; the Prime Minister's 24 April announcement in paragraph 26, printed page 18; the GEL 200 benefit for up to six months and the GEL 300 one-off benefit in paragraphs 45 and 46). The speed shown is therefore 34 days from emergency to announced rule, not to money paid. The World Bank and AIIB co-financed the programme, the report notes that its indicator values cover only the IBRD share of some outputs, and the counts are cumulative people paid at least once, not people covered for six months. The benefit was temporary by design and Georgia still has no permanent unemployment insurance, so the rule change did not outlast the shock. The self-employed figure is described as people 'whose activity was affected', a looser category than the one-off benefit's eligibility rule.

Building

1 delivery linked to Large project delivery.

Georgiasince 2016delivered and closedbears on Large project delivery

East-West Highway Corridor Improvement Project (Rikoti Pass sections)

Georgia's Roads Department completed most civil works on the Zemo Osiauri to Chumateleti and Chumateleti to Khevi sections of the East-West Highway across the Rikoti Pass by the project's closing on 30 June 2025, four and a half years after the original loan closing date of 31 December 2020, and the government's own financing rose to US$91.03 million against US$44 million planned for the enlarged project (US$24 million at approval plus US$20 million under the 2017 additional financing).

91.03 million US dollars, borrower co-financing actually disbursed, 2025-06-30. 44 million US dollars, borrower co-financing planned, parent project (us$24 million) plus 2017 additional financing (us$20 million), my sum of table 2, 2017-12. World Bank, Implementation Completion and Results Report, Georgia East-West Highway Corridor Improvement Project (P149952, Loans 8547-GE and 8788-GE), 2026, retrieved 2026-10-02.

The move, and what it needed

The Roads Department carried the national east-west highway over its hardest mountain pass in contracts financed by the World Bank and the EIB, and when contracts failed or were re-tendered the government covered the gap from its own budget instead of cutting scope.

Preconditions

  • A sequence of earlier highway projects that built the Roads Department's contract management
  • Lenders willing to co-finance tunnels and bridges in seismic mountain terrain
  • Budget room to nearly quadruple counterpart funding

Limits: The World Bank wrote the report and rated the outcome Moderately Satisfactory and efficiency Modest. The financing figures are in the data sheet and Table 2 (ICR page 4); the closing-date changes in the restructuring table (paras. 10 to 11) and para. 23. Much of the extra time and government money followed a 2017 decision to add the 11.6 km Chumateleti to Khevi link, co-financed by an EIB loan of EUR 67.47 million, so the plan the outturn is set against grew mid-project; Table 2's component 1 estimates (parent plus additional financing, US$273.48 million including EIB) against actuals (US$359.72 million) give a 32 percent overrun by my own sum, which the report does not state. The report attributes the 18-month extension of 2023 to re-tendering, COVID-19 and mountain construction, and the parallel Fourth East-West Highway project's ICR (2020) records that a Zemo Osiauri to Chumateleti lot was terminated in December 2018 and re-bid under this project. Most civil works were complete at closing, with residual works finished afterwards on government money; the date of full opening was not read at an official source.