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GIPA Publishes Text-book for
Its' Local Government Program and makes the Book Available Electronically
for Wide Use Starting December, 2002
The School of Government (SG)
is working towards advancing the academic process within its Georgian
language Local Government Administration program. However, lack of Georgian
language textbooks and reading materials is a serious impediment for maintaining
high-quality academic process. In order to make each class and course
effective and efficient initiative is required in creation and publishing
of Georgian language textbooks and support materials. An example of such
effort is newly published book of GIPA titled,
"Governing City".
Beyond introducing quality textbooks in the area of local government administration
for excellence in academic process, LGP's purpose is to assist building internal
capacity of reform implementation at the local level in Georgia through providing
local government and self-government leaders, administrators, and managers with
access to Georgian language literature/resources/guide, necessary for effective
decision-making, planning, and management procedures. This is why LGP places
electronic version of the book on the web (www.lgic.info)
to make the book accessible for all interested parties starting December, 2002.
The book consists of 200 pages and the
following six articles / chapters on various subject matters related to
the subject of city governance are proposed in this book:
- Public Participation in Local Governance
- Financial Aspects of Decentralization
- Georgia's Local Budgets
- Urban Policy
- Aspects of Urban Development in Georgia
- Self-Governance: Experience of Western Countries
It is important to mention that five authors
among six are LGP faculty and staff. Specifically, the Editor and co-author
of the book is:
- Ms.Tamara Sulukhia, Ph. D., Head of
Local Government Center at GIPA.
Other co-authors are:
- Mr.David Melua, President of Civitas
Georgica (GIPA faculty)
- Mr.Tengiz Shergelashvili, President
of Young Economists Association (GIPA faculty)
- Mr. Givi Erkomaishvili, Senior State
Advisor at the Ministry of Finance(GIPA faculty)
- Mr.Lado Vardosanidze, Ph.D., President
of Urbanists Association of Georgia (GIPA faculty)
- Mr. David Losaberidze, Board Member
of Institute of Piece, Democracy and Development.
LGP believes that this one of challenging
and important spets towards accumulating high-quality local government
resources in Georgian langiage and hopes to continue this initiative by
introducing other books and materials in the future.
GIPA wishes to take this opportunity to thank
all above-listed co-authors for their contributions, Mr. Nick Gvishiani for assistance
in editing, and The University of Georgia (USA) for funding publishing of the book!
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