Manana Dumbadze is a communications specialist with 19 years of experience working with various media (including print and television), twelve years with the NGO sector, and five years with the business community.
Worked as a communications specialist for USAID’s Georgia Business Climate Reform Project for two years, ensuring stakeholders understood and could access the benefits of new reforms in Georgia. During her tenure, the GBCR project received the USAID/Caucasus award for Outstanding Success Story in recognition of excellent communications outreach efforts and the creation of success stories emphasizing U.S. government assistance to the Georgian Business Sector.
She also helped develop Internet-based tools for publishing information about Georgian government initiatives and assisted counterpart governmental institutions in developing their own communication plans.