{"id":"GEO-008","notes":"STAGE 6 STRUCTURAL ENABLER — GONGO Infrastructure. The eligibility requirement (only organizations registered as \"foreign power interest\" organizations can apply) is analytically the most direct GONGO mechanism in the database: compliance with the foreign agent label is rewarded with state funding; non-compliance (i.e., maintaining independence) means losing both foreign funding (via restrictions) and domestic funding (via exclusion). This is the Georgian equivalent of the Serbian GONGO network and the RS GONGO/QUANGO ecosystem (BIH-014). CSOMeter references Azerbaijan/Belarus precedent explicitly — cross-regime pattern documented.","country":"Georgia","sources":[{"url":null,"citation":"CSOMeter February 2025 (https://csometer.info — primary); CSOMeter April 10 2025 (State Grant Management Agency context)"}],"summary":"Georgian parliament adopts Law on Grants amendments establishing State Grant Management Agency on February 20, 2025 — 80 votes in fast-track procedure. Agency funded with 20 million GEL (6.8 million EUR) from state budget (already allocated in 2025 budget). PM Kobakhidze September 2024 pre-announcement: agency will be \"open only to CSOs registered in the 'Register of Organisations Pursuing the Interests of a Foreign Power'\" — meaning only organizations that have complied with the foreign agent label will be eligible for state grants. GD majority leader Mamuka Mdinaradze February 5 statement frames agency alongside other \"restrictive proposals.\" ANALYTICAL SIGNIFICANCE: creates parallel pro-government civil society (GONGO ecosystem) as direct replacement for independent CSOs; \"facade of cooperation between the parallel civil society and the state\"; CSOMeter: \"similar to practices of control analysed in Azerbaijan and Belarus.\" Combined effect of foreign funding restrictions + state grant agency: independent CSOs lose funding → state grants available only to compliant/loyal orgs → independent sector financially eliminated without formal closure.","tactics":[{"code":"TC-26","role":"primary","label":"GONGO Institutional Operations","needs_review":false},{"code":"TC-30","role":"secondary","label":"Political Favouritism in Grants","needs_review":false}],"version":1,"channels":["Official/Regulatory"],"entities":[{"id":781,"name":"Georgian Dream (80 votes); Irakli Kobakhidze (PM — September 2024 announcement); Mamuka Mdinaradze (GD parliamentary majority leader)","role":"actor","entity_type":"Government Official"},{"id":782,"name":"Independent civil society sector — excluded from state funding; pro-government organizations — beneficiaries","role":"target","entity_type":"Sector"}],"date_text":"20/02/2025","created_at":"2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00","escalation":6,"harm_track":"Track 1 — Legal/Administrative","narratives":[{"code":"NF-09","role":"primary","label":"Political Interference","needs_review":false},{"code":"NF-01","role":"secondary","label":"Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence","needs_review":false}],"report_ids":[],"signal_ids":["SIG-GEO-008"],"updated_at":"2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00","occurred_on":"2025-02-20","campaign_ids":["GEO-CAMP-001"],"enabler_type":"GONGO Infrastructure","response_ids":[],"trigger_type":"TR-06: Legislative Milestone","campaign_phase":"Stage 6: Structural Enabler","civic_response":"Independent CSOs condemn; CSOMeter: \"establishes parallel civil society similar to Azerbaijan/Belarus\"","date_precision":"day","enabler_status":"Active","campaigns_served":["GEO-CAMP-001"],"consequence_category":"Legal/Administrative","institutional_consequence":"State-funded parallel civil society established; independent CSO sector financially isolated; GONGO ecosystem formally institutionalized via budget allocation"}