Subject: EU-UNICRI research study - Inputs from the Ministry of IDPs, Labour, Health and Social Affairs in Georgia
From: Sara Yasmine Chennoukh <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, James Shaw <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 13:43:26 +0000

Dear Ms Barkalaia,

We received your contacts from Mr Jurate Juodsnukyte from the EUD in Tblisi, and we
are contacting you on behalf of the United
Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI).

Within the framework of the
new EU-UNICRI
project to enhance the
recovery of assets linked to organised criminal activity in
the EU Eastern Partnership Countries, UNICRI’s
experts are conducting
research studies on illicit financial flows for
each of the Eastern Partnership countries. The studies will highlight the value of prioritising policies to
reduce illicit financial flows and to more effectively and efficiently seize and confiscate illicitly-obtained assets.

The research
for each of these studies is nearing completion.  Still,
it will not be complete without the valuable and much-needed feedback from key stakeholders. A
key part of these studies will
allow us to indicate to policymakers just
how much certain
sectors (including the health, employment, education and infrastructure sectors) can
benefit if the country
were to
successfully prioritise
the seizure and confiscation of only
a small percentage of the illicit financial flows related to organised crime.

Accordingly, we
would be
most grateful to
briefly speak with you (or any other key official you wish to designate in your Ministry) to help us convince policymakers to bolster the budget
for your Ministry; an
official with knowledge of how much, for example, it costs to build clinics, or roads (or other infrastructure) or
to support employment policies and subsidies, would
be most helpful.

To this end, please
let us know when you (or another relevant official) would
be available for a Zoom call
on either
Wednesday 4 or Thursday 5 (afternoon your time) next week.

Thank you in advance for your much-valued support and input to these important studies being carried out by the United
Nations.

Kindest regards,

Yasmine