PMC Research Center is an independent non-governmental think tank, targeted at elaborating research based policy options, accompanied by good communication strategy and advocacy policy. PMC Research Center is a subsidiary of the parent consulting company - Policy and Management Consulting Group (PMCG).

 

The Mission of PMC Research Center
  • Create a platform for a dialogue between the society and the Government
  • Form a culture of elaborating high standard intellectual products (policy papers, policy recommendations)
  • Advocate the policy recommendations
PMC Research center pursues this mission by:
  • Identifying the most challenging research topics through detecting Government's needs to meet them with policy recommendations
  • Improving the quality assurance system for Policy Products Developing a system of policy dissemination through usual (media, press), as well as e-technologies (internet blogs, social networks, etc.)
  • Further enhancing the existing Policy Forum platform through expanding discussed policy issues and the target audience
  • Regularly upgrading the pool of experts and develop a distinctive database of key experts
  • Encouraging partnership among Georgian non-governmental actors while being enrolled in public policy discourse
  • Advocating policy recommendations through organizing far reaching policy debates
  • Monitoring the implementation process of the recommendations
Core Research Areas
Our research focuses mainly on the following topics:
  • Public Finance;
  • Economics;
  • Tax and Customs Policy and Administration;
  • Healthcare;
  • Institution Capacity Building;
  • Structural;
  • Administrative and Civil Service Reforms;
  • Local Governance;
Who can benefit from PMC Research Center activities?
PMC Research Center is an organization of an explicitly partisan interest that seeks to offer policy advice to chosen beneficiaries. Primarily, these recipients are state institutions which benefit from the comprehensive research based policy recommendations.
Background Information
PMC Research Center was founded on the grounds of parent consulting company – PMCG. Therefore, PMCG is in close cooperation with PMC Research Center and acts as a supporter to achieve financial sustainability. PMCG's successfully implemented projects established a platform for setting up policy recommendations and a dialogue with the Government, unique pool of experts specialized and well acknowledged in policy research and elaboration processes and significant practice of successfully organizing comprehensive policy discussions. Consequently, PMC Research Center was founded in order to branch out a distinct and audible research institution. The aspiration and the core goal of the research center is to preserve and improve the above mentioned platform through introducing more comprehensive and complex research based policy recommendations.