The New Economic Opportunities (NEO) Initiative is a comprehensive four-year U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded project in the Republic of Georgia. NEO has the potential to leave a legacy of sustained economic growth that will lift thousands of Georgians out of poverty. It is designed to benefit vulnerable households by raising rural incomes, reducing poverty levels, improving food security, addressing critical, small-scale household and agricultural water constraints, enabling targeted internally displaced persons (IDP) communities (old and new) to sustainably maintain their households, and assisting communities distressed by natural or other disasters. The NEO project will achieve these goals through its work in four components: community level economic development planning, rural economic development, assistance to strengthen highly vulnerable households and individuals, and promotion of sustainability of IDP houses rehabilitated with support from the U.S. government. The intervention will benefit at least 84 communities and reach 70,000 vulnerable households across Georgia. To be considered for assistance, communities must be located in vulnerable municipalities defined as 1) internally displaced persons, including those recently displaced by the 2008 war with Russia; 2) the country's poor, including the bottom quintile of income earners; 3) rural households; and 4) vulnerable populations in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. NORC will oversee the administration of a baseline household survey and provide analysis that demonstrates Georgians’ satisfaction about public services, the state of income and poverty, and food security.