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Georgia: New Online Platform with Legal and Business Advice for SMEs

by Georgia Today
October 29, 2021
in Business & Economy, Magazine
Reading Time: 2 mins read
Georgia: New Online Platform with Legal and Business Advice for SMEs

The SME sector in Georgia plays a key role in creating employment and contributing to economic growth. This new initiative demonstrates our commitment to helping SMEs succeed in challenging times. – EBRD

 

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is launching an online resource with legal and business guidance to support micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in their response to new challenges following the Covid-19 pandemic.

The website contains a separate section for Georgia that offers country-specific legal and financial guidance in the local language, developed with financial support from the United Kingdom government through the Good Governance Fund (GGF).

On 8 October, a launch event was organized by the EBRD with the GGF, the Secretariat of Georgia’s Investors Council, Enterprise Georgia, Caissa Law, and Lightspeed Digital.

The new website offers expert guidance to help owners and managers of Georgian SMEs to deal with financial challenges, manage relationships with suppliers, customers and employees, and steer through operational and strategic challenges. It also contains useful tools to digitalize businesses as well as to navigate a restructuring process. The platform provides businesses with legal guidance on corporate, employment and insolvency law, areas in which small firms have a strong demand for know-how and information. The website is structured around six modules or entry points:

1. Developing your business strategy
2. Managing your people successfully
3. Running your business successfully
4. Taking your business online
5. Keeping your business finances healthy
6. Restructuring your business finances.

Templates and case studies support the guidance and help users to apply concepts in their day-to-day operations. No registration is required to use the site.

To produce the guidance for Georgian businesses, the EBRD team worked closely with the Secretariat of the Investors Council, representatives of Enterprise Georgia, and the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, together with the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture and the Ministry of Justice.

“The SME sector in Georgia plays a key role in creating employment and contributing to economic growth,” says Catarina Bjorlin Hansen, EBRD Regional Director for the Caucasus. “This new initiative demonstrates our commitment to helping SMEs succeed in challenging times.”

“The majority of Georgia’s businesses are micro, small or medium-sized enterprises, providing employment and income in critically important sectors such as tourism and hospitality,” Mark Clayton, UK Ambassador to Georgia, added. “This work, therefore, has the potential to be of wide-reaching benefit and comes at a time when Georgia is suffering the effects of another wave of Covid-19 cases. I am proud that the UK could fund this support for the Georgian SME business community.”

“We are grateful to the EBRD and the GGF for once again supporting Georgian SMEs,” said Mikheil Khidureli, CEO of Enterprise Georgia. “This platform will provide additional resources to small and medium-sized enterprises so they can quickly and easily access information about financial, legal and other issues of interest to them. It is particularly important to mention that the platform has a section with tailored guidelines adopted to Georgian SMEs, which makes the information considerably more relevant and user-friendly.”

Originally published on ebrd.com.

By Loretta Martikian for ebrd.com

Tags: EBRDEnterprise GeorgiaSME development
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