A SYSTEMIC STRESS-TEST OF GEORGIA’S CIVIL SOCIETY

REF: CAT-AGI-AUDIT-009

DATE: September 2025 (Live Updates)

STATUS: 🟡 MONITORING / SYSTEMIC FAILURE CONFIRMED

TARGET SECTOR: Georgian Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) & Donor Ecosystem

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1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: THE “BAZAROV TEST”

The Hypothesis: In September 2025, following the arbitrary denial of entry to the project coordinator, we launched not merely a rights defense campaign, but a Systemic Stress Test.

We sent formal requests for assistance and solidarity to 35 leading Georgian CSOs, covering all sectors: from legal aid and election monitoring to media freedom.

The Result: We recorded a 96% Silence Rate. Out of 35 organizations receiving multi-million dollar funding to “defend democracy,” only one (Rights Georgia) provided a substantive, conditional response. The rest chose a tactic of total avoidance.

The Verdict: This report proves that Georgian civil society is in a state of Institutional Paralysis. It is not the powerful “foreign agent network” claimed by state propaganda, but a fragile, intimidated, and financially dependent ecosystem incapable of reacting to crises outside their grant-mandated KPIs.

2. METHODOLOGY: SILENCE IS DATA

We do not view silence as an absence of result. We view it as a critical data point.

The Experiment Protocol:

  1. Selection: 35 market leaders (GYLA, ISFED, TI Georgia, etc.).
  2. Stimulus: A formal request containing a full evidence package (UN Communication, border refusal documents) and a specific, profile-relevant “ask” (e.g., litigation for lawyers, publicity for media).
  3. Measurement: Recording of response time, tone, and readiness to act in the “Transparency Log”

Why this report exists: When the state machine (MIA/SSG) violated the law, we turned to society’s “immune system” — the NGO sector. The immune system failed to trigger. This report is an autopsy of why human rights protection in Georgia has become a fiction.

3. KEY FINDINGS: ANATOMY OF PARALYSIS