Georgia Humanitarian Background
- Calamities and Seasonal Affects
- Capacity and Contacts for In-Country Emergency Response
  - Humanitarian Community

Georgia Humanitarian Background

Disasters, Conflicts and Migration
Natural Disasters	Yes / No	Comments / Details
Drought	Yes	n/a
Earthquakes	Yes	n/a
Epidemics	n/a	n/a
Extreme Temperatures	Yes	n/a
Flooding	n/a	n/a
Insect Infestation	n/a	n/a
Mudslides	Yes	n/a
Volcanic Eruptions	Yes	n/a
High Waves / Surges	n/a	n/a
Wildfires	Yes	n/a
High Winds	Yes	n/a
Other Comments	n/a
Man-Made Issues
Civil Strife	Yes	n/a
International Conflict	Yes	n/a
Internally Displaced Persons	Yes	n/a
Refugees Present	Yes	n/a
Landmines / UXO Present	Yes	During the war against Russia in 2008 there were some incidents
Other Comments	UNHCR information on Georgia

For more detailed database on disasters by country, please see the Centre for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters:

EMDAT information on Georgia

Calamities and Seasonal Affects

Seasonal Affects on Transport
Transport	Comments	From (month) to (month)
Primary Road Transport	Winter weather (Dec – Mar) and spring rains (Mar – May) does affect the accessibility by road of some mountainous areas, such as Upper Swaneti, Pshav-Khevsureti	Dec - May
Secondary Road Transport	Same as above	Dec - May
Rail Transport	There used to be problems with electricity cuts during winter, Dec to Mar for the railroad	Dec - May
Air Transport	No	n/a
Waterway Transport	No	n/a

Seasonal Affects on Storage and Handling (economic, social, climate…)
Activity	Comments	From <month> to <month>
Storage	No	n/a
Handling	No	n/a
Other	No	n/a

There is no major influence of the seasons on the transport in Georgia with regard to the main transport arteries such as the railroad from the seaports to Tbilisi and further on to Armenia and Azerbaijan and the highway following the same route
There are no major seasonal problems with regard to commodity handling

Capacity and Contacts for In-Country Emergency Response

Depending on the type, nature and location of a potential emergency situation, the Ministry of Defence could grand permission for the use of some of its – limited – assets. This would be mainly limited to some all terrain trucking capacity and possibly some light air transport (helicopters and fixed wing aircraft).

Government

Depending on the type, nature and location of a potential emergency situation, the Ministry of Defence could grant permission for the use of some of its – limited – assets. This would be mainly limited to some all terrain trucking capacity and possibly some light air transport (helicopters and fixed wing aircraft).

For information on Georgia Government Background contact details, please see the following links:

4.1 Georgia Government Contact List

Humanitarian Community

For information on Georgia Humanitarian Background contact details, please see the following links:

4.2 Georgia Humanitarian Agency Contact List

Relief Web information on Georgia Humanitarian Agencies