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SME Support Project to Ease Transition and Reintegration of IDPsOn October 28, 2009 the USAID’s SME Support Project in partnership with the Ministry for Refugees and Resettlement and Mtskheta-Mtianeti authorities hosted the presentation of the projects implemented in the IDP settlement of Tserovani. The invited guests were offered to visit all the projects’ sites with the official opening at the Tserovani Bread Bakery. The USAID/Caucasus Mission Director, Jonathan Conly and Minister for Refugees and Resettlement, Koba Subeliani attended the presentation and made welcoming remarks. In March 2009, SME Support Project launched Round VI of the Competitive Grants Program aimed at creating essential infrastructure and providing employment opportunities and needed services for IDPs residing in the newly-constructed settlement of Tserovani. The SME Support Project solicited applications to implement labor-intensive business projects in the village of Tserovani to provide primary services, and create job opportunities for IDPs. Four out of thirteen applicants met the criteria set up by the evaluation committee and distinguished themselves in developing grants applications. Through the assistance provided by the SME Support Project, IDP settlement of Tserovani has a brand new Bread Bakery Tserovani Bakery with a capacity to produce up to 15,000 breads per day; Poultry Farm Kheoba Chicken with a capacity to breed about 3,000 chickens per 40-day cycle; Service Center Tserovani to provide diversified package of services to the whole population of the settlement, and Cement Tile Micro Enterprise with a capacity to produce 100 sq. m. of tiles daily. All the businesses started operations having employed 41 IDPs during construction and 56 IDPs once they became operational to provide food and services to about 10,000 IDPs residing in Tserovani and neighboring IDP settlements.
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