Adjara. The Global Environmental Fund (GEF) has met with the local CSO representatives on November 11 in the Batumi Civic Engagement Center. The meeting aimed to inform the third sector representatives interested in the issue about the terms of grant competition announced as part of the Small Grants Program. Meeting participants have discussed in a question-and-answer mode the issues that the applicant organization should take into account when submitting a project proposal. As already stated, funded mostly are the projects focused on environmental protection and contribution to the development of areas such as increasing the capacity and opportunities of local communities, gender equality, reduction of poverty and improvement of economic and social conditions of the local population.