The primary goal of the INRMW Program is to improve current and future lives of people in Georgia by utilizing and managing natural resources more sustainably, including water, soil, vegetation, and the ecosystems that encompass them. The project aims to introduce innovative approaches and practical models of participatory integrated natural resources management in targeted watersheds, by facilitating reforms to and harmonization of national policies, and by increasing the capacity of national and regional institutions to replicate these approaches and models throughout the country. These models will be introduced in four representative watersheds of Rioni and Alazani-Iori River Basins and efforts will be made to upscale and disseminate them across the country. The project goal will be achieved by implementing a number of sequential activities that include: baseline assessments of existing laws, policies, institutions and practices with regard to management of natural resources and related sectors; rapid assessments of the existing socio-economic and environmental situation in targeted river basins; selection of four representative upstream and downstream pilot areas for on-the-ground interventions; detailed assessments of pilot areas; development of resource management plans and; implementation of a number of priority interventions at community level through community small-grants program.