For the last decade, the government of Georgia has promoted hydropower as a way of tackling energy security and turning the country into a regional energy player...Yet the presence of the EBRD [European Bank for Reconstruction and Development] and other international financial institutions has not been enough to ensure the development of comprehensive energy strategies, robust project assessments and meaningful public consultations...[T]he existing assessment of the Nenskra project completely omits the baseline identification of the affected communities and neglects an evaluation of the impacts on their livehoods and physical displacement. The ESIA does not cover the loss of customary lands, impacts on vulnerable people (internally displaced people, women), health, resettlement and other issues. The absence of this during the scoping process has also led to the inadequate and untimely engagement of the affected population.