---
title: "Advocacy Organization Setup"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/non-profit-and-ngo-law-en/advocacy-organization-setup-en"
field: "Non-Profit & NGO Law"
description: "Advocacy organization setup under articles 24, 29, 35 and 36 of the Civil Code: form, registration, management, representation and property. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-11-07"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Advocacy Organization Setup

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/non-profit-and-ngo-law-en/advocacy-organization-setup-en

## The Legal Foundation of an Advocacy Organization

An organization carrying human-rights or advocacy purposes is created in Georgia in the form of a non-entrepreneurial (non-commercial) legal entity. Article 24 of the Civil Code defines a legal entity as an organized formation created to achieve a defined purpose, possessing its own property, independently liable with that property, acquiring rights and duties in its own name, entering into transactions and capable of appearing in court as plaintiff and defendant. A legal entity may be corporatively organized, based on membership, dependent on or independent of the status of its members. A legal entity whose purpose is non-commercial activity must be registered in the manner established by the Civil Code, and it is precisely this route that forms the legal framework for founding an advocacy organization. The non-commercial form fits the task exactly: it allows a group to act lawfully in defence of the public interest, to acquire property, to conclude contracts and to defend in court both its own interests and, for the purpose of protecting rights, the interests of the persons who apply to it.

## Registration Conditions and Founding Documentation

Article 29 of the Civil Code regulates the registration of a non-entrepreneurial legal entity: the interested person submits to the registering organ a partners' agreement and an application which must contain the mandatory data required for the registration of an entrepreneurial legal entity. The founding documentation must indicate the purpose of the organization's activity — for a rights-protection organization, the tasks of protecting human rights, representing them and exercising public oversight — the rules of admission to membership, exit and expulsion if the organization is membership-based, the organ taking decisions on reorganization or liquidation together with the decision-making procedure, as well as the manner of election of the governing organ and the term of its authority. Together with the registration, the registering organ creates the electronic address of the organization within the unified electronic portal, and the organization may register a telephone number or an e-mail address for electronic notifications, the sending of which is deemed delivery to the relevant person. The quality of the founding documentation is decisive here: a vague purpose or an unregulated structure breeds disputes later and complicates relations with donors.

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### Which legal form suits a rights-protection organization?

The form of a non-entrepreneurial (non-commercial) legal entity, registered in the manner established by article 24 of the Civil Code.

### What confirms the authority of the organization's head?

The registration documentation and the notarized charter; managerial authority implies representative authority unless otherwise provided.

### How are purposes and structure fixed?

In the founding documentation: the purpose of the activity, the membership rules, the reorganization-liquidation organ and the manner and term of election of the governing organ.

### What happens to the organization's property?

Its alienation is admissible only in the service of the activity, organizational development, the purposes or charitable aims.