On July 2, the awards ceremony for ‘Georgia's Responsible Business Awards - Meliora 2024’ will be held at Tbilisi History Museum ‘Karvasla’, where the best Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) focused projects and companies of the year will be announced.

At the ceremony, the representatives of the diplomatic corps and international CSR experts will present awards to winning companies in various contest categories.

The contest will reveal the best CSR projects implemented by the private sector over the past year, judged by the jury comprising the distinguished international and Georgian experts from public organisations and academic circles locally and internationally.

The ‘Meliora Awards’ aims to develop CSR in Georgia and raise public awareness on it. This annual contest recognises business companies for their outstanding initiatives and projects contributing to the advancement of CSR.

This contest is organised by the Center for Strategic Research and Development of Georgia (CSRDG), within the framework of the European Union (EU) and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) funded project ‘Civil Society STAR Initiative: CSOs as Sustainable, Transparent, Accountable, and Resilient Development Actors in Georgia.’

About the European Union: For more than 30 years, the European Union has been in close partnership with Georgia, helping it share knowledge, experience, and expertise, foster innovation, and provide financial assistance. The partnership between the EU and Georgia is based on shared values such as peace, freedom, democracy, human rights, and inclusive economic growth.

Implementing Organisation: The Center for Strategic Research and Development of Georgia (CSRDG) was established 29 years ago and implements important various projects. One of these is the corporate social responsibility (CSR) program. CSRDG is the first Georgian organisation to prepare and publish: Sustainable Development Report (according to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) international standard), the first Georgian-language manual on CSR for Georgian higher education institutions; created the CSR Knowledge Hub, established the CSR Stakeholders Forum, and initiated the most outstanding award in the field of CSR - Meliora.