The Institute for Policy Studies is an independent not-for-profit research organisation launched in Tbilisi in the spring 2002, and has support from the Open Society Institute, Budapest and the Open Society, Georgia Foundation. The main activities of IPS are promoting contemporary public policy concepts and practices in Georgia and providing a forum for substantive dialogue between representatives of different branches of the government, the civil sector and the Georgian public.
Research areas include:
- regional conflicts; democratic participation and integration of minorities; population migration, repatriation and adaptation
- prospects for European and Euro-Atlantic integration; regional stability and co-operation; models of security arrangements in evolving geopolitical environment
- good governance on national, regional and local levels; harmonisation of centre-periphery relations; local governments, decentralisation and federalisation
- poverty and vulnerability; efficacy of anti-poverty and welfare programs and of social services; strategy for sustainable development and poverty reduction.
The website is available in both Georgian and English, it contains details of activities and downloadable research papers in both languages.