In late December 2011, the Georgian Parliament adopted amendments to elections-related legislation mainly aimed to restrict financing of political parties from private sources and institute more effective mechanisms of transparency in this area. While these changes may be motivated by specific political interest of the parliamentary majority, namely by the a billionaire politician, Bidzina Ivanishvili, entering the political fray, the substance of these restrictions correspond to accepted democratic practices and may play important positive role in the long-term development of democratic institutions in Georgia.

On December 21 2011 CIPDD and the Polish Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) have organized a discussion on ‘Developing Georgia's migration policy: lessons from Poland’ in Tbilisi, at the Holiday Inn. This event was the part of the IPA and CIPDD joint project co-financed by the Polish development cooperation programme 2011 of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. The aim of the project is to improve the standards of creating and implementing Georgian policy in the area of border control and migrations through identifying areas for improvement in the Georgian migration management and sharing the best practices of Polish institutions.

In November 2011 CIPDD became a member of the Coalition VISA-FREE EUROPE. The coalition takes joint actions to speed up the process of EU visa liberalization with the countries of the Eastern Partnership - Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia - and Russia.

On November 4, 2011 CIPDD with Democratic Initiatives Foundations, Kyiv, organized the Video-Conference- "'Experience of  Ukraine and Georgia in the process of Euro-Atlantic integration" wi'th participation of Georgian and Ukrainian experts working on Euro-Atlantic integration issues.

On November 4, 2011 CIPDD with Democratic Initiatives Foundations, Kyiv, organize the Video- Conference - Experience of Ukraine and Georgia in the process of Euro-Atlantic Integration, Tbilisi-kyiv - with participation of Georgian and Ukrainian experts working on Euro-Atlantic integration issues.

On 25 September CIPDD, GYLA and Saferworld started in Akhaltsikhe 2nd round of engagement meetings ‘Planning for Peace Together’. The main topic of the discussion was "Creation of common interests between different ethnic groups in the economic, social, political and cultural spheres". This issue was named as one of the preconditions for civil integration, hence for peace and stability in the region and the country as identified in the national strategy produced in the framework of the CIPDD/GYLA/Saferworld joint project funded by the UK Conflict Pool.

On September 9 representatives of Georgian civil society and media gathered in CIPDD to discuss prospects for visa liberalization between EU and Georgia and advocacy plans for supporting this process. In the first half of the workshop Macedonian guest speaker Dr. Zhidas Daskalovski (School of Public Policy “Mother Theresa) made an introduction to advocacy techniques in public policy process. Dr. Marija Risteska (Center for Research and Policy Making CRPM) talked about Macedonian visa liberalization advocacy experience and best practices in monitoring of Road Map implementation. The second half of the meeting was dedicated to discussion about Georgia’s prospects for visa liberalization, current state of art and plans for visa liberalization advocacy.

On September 9 CIPDD is hosting a workshop 'Transfer of Macedonia NGOs experience on visa liberalization'. The event is part of the PASOS-CIPDD project Paving the Road towards Visa-free Travel between the Eastern Partnership countries and the EU supported by the Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative (LGI) of Open Society Foundations.

CIPDD together with its partner - the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS, the Netherlands) launched a new website PARTICIPATE.GE. The website is a part of the joint project Civil Society for Development, Decentralisation and Participation in Georgia (CSD).

CIPDD/GYLA/Saferworld with help from the Go Group Media have produced 4 documentary films of the public discussions held in March 2011. The main aim of the events was to allow government and community representatives to share perspectives on the key challenges for future peace, security and stability in Georgia, and to plan for how they can be most effectively managed.

CIPDD, GYLA and Saferworld initiated public discussion took part in 4 regions of Georgia - Shida Kartli, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Kvemo Kartli and Samegrelo. Around 30 participants representing local and central governments, media and local civil society gathered to discuss key national challenges related to peace, security and stability. The final discussion was organized in Tbilisi Marriott on 31st March.