Associate Professor of Ken Walker International University, Ana Trapaidze is a participant of the second cohort of the International Republican Institute (IRI) project "Build Georgia". The goal of the project is to involve and facilitate dialogue among established Georgian leaders and leading experts to devise collaborative responses to national challenges. The first dialogue session of the project was held on October 19 - 22, 2023 with the participation of the following working groups: academic sector, civil society organizations, youth associations, business, religious organizations and representatives of culture and art. The working topic of the meeting was decentralization and regional development of Georgia, in order to prepare sectoral recommendations on the given topic and communicate of these recommendations between sectors.