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    PRESS RELEASE
    United Nations Development Programme / Armenia
    14 Petros Adamyan St., Yerevan 0010
    Contact: Mr. Hovhannes Sarajyan, Communications Associate
    Tel: +37410 566 073
    E-mail: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
    Web site: http://www.undp.am <http://www.undp.am/>
    http://www.un.am <http://www.un.am/>

    Head of the United Nations in Armenia Inspects Projects Implemented in
    Various Communities of Armenia

    United Nations, Yerevan - On July 2, 2008 Ms. Consuelo Vidal, the
    United Nations Resident Coordinator / UN Development Programme (UNDP)
    Resident Representative in Armenia made a working visit to several urban
    and rural communities of Armenia to observe the development projects
    implemented by UNDP and its partners. The agenda included visits to
    Ararat, Kotayk, and Shirak regions where UNDP works to promote
    community-based initiatives aimed at improving the social and economic
    conditions of the local population.

    Since 2006 UNDP has been cooperating with the municipality of Masis town
    of Ararat marz under its Performance Budgeting Project. Through targeted
    counseling and technical assistance, Masis municipality has switched to
    the new, results-based budgeting model which, in addition to improved
    work efficiency of the local governance, allows an increased public
    participation in planning, execution and monitoring of the community's
    budget. As part of the budget implementation, UNDP carried out a project
    on the renovation of 41 entrances of 9 residential buildings located in
    different districts of town of Masis, which needed most pending repairs.

    Nor Geghi Agricultural College in Kotayk region is one of the five
    vocational education and training institutions included in the framework
    of UNDP `Support to the Modernization of Vocational Education and
    Training System' (VET) Project, which benefited from the activities
    undertaken by the VET project during the two years of its
    implementation. The VET project has initiated an unprecedented
    initiative targeted at creation of an educational demonstrative orchard
    adjacent to the College building, which will amass a whole range of
    sample indigenous sorts of drupaceous fruits allowing more than 400
    students from the College, as well as the students from nearby
    Agricultural Institute, to practically get acquainted with morphological
    characteristics of domestic drupaceous fruits, modern irrigation
    technologies, cultivation techniques, agricultural protections, etc. As
    a result, the students could combine the theory with the practice
    conducting new laboratory experiments and practical assignments.
    Moreover, the orchard will have a strong potential to become an
    excellent scientific base for research works to be undertaken by the
    scientists across the country. The project has also initiated the
    procurement of agro-mechanization laboratory for the College to allow
    practical application of the newly acquired knowledge.

    Over the recent two years UNDP has been working with the local
    self-government bodies of Artik town of Shirak region to set up the
    results-based budgeting methodology. In line with the priorities
    identified by the community in 2007, the project on full reconstruction
    of the town's Extracurricular Education Center was undertaken jointly by
    UNDP and USAID, with participation of Artik community. As a result, the
    renovated Center has provided 7 new jobs for professional teachers of
    the town. Today, more comfortable and suitable conditions are offered to
    over 150 students attending around 20 activity groups of the Center.

    In the framework of the UNDP/GEF `Armenia-Improving the Energy
    Efficiency of Municipal Heating and Hot Water Supply' project, the
    centralized heat supply systems of four residential buildings in Gyumri
    city of Shirak region were connected to two boiler houses, which
    required preliminary technical assessment and capital investments. As
    part of the cooperation agreement signed between UNDP and Gyumri
    municipality, 238 households, out of which 27 % are socially vulnerable
    families, of these residential buildings will receive centralized
    heating in 2008-09 heating season, under the supervision of `Gyumri
    Kentron' condominium.

    In Ashotsk, the very northern sub-district of Shirak region, UNDP has
    partnered with the Government of Norway to implement a set of
    agricultural development projects supporting the cluster of four border
    villages - Bavra, Sizavet, Tavshut and Saragyugh. In 2007, UNDP
    supported the renovation of the agricultural machinery pool and
    purchased a fleet of new machinery units to serve around 1,500 residents
    of the cluster communities. An inter-community institution, LEJAME Fund,
    was established with UNDP assistance in an effort to set up a basis for
    institutional management. To mobilize the population and especially the
    youth of the cluster villages, UNDP has supported publishing of a local
    newspaper.

    In March 2008, the UN agencies - UNDP, Food and Agricultural
    Organization and World Food Program -initiated the project on potato
    seed revolving fund creation for the cluster villages. Around 9.5 tons
    of Dutch potato seeding material was planted on 3 hectares of irrigated
    land and cultivated by local workforce paid with food rations, under the
    food-for-work initiative of WFP. The direct beneficiaries of this
    project are 500 socially vulnerable residents of the cluster who will be
    provided with the crop as food relief. Another part will be distributed
    among multi-children families for further planting and the remaining
    households will have an opportunity to buy potato seeding at a below
    market price. The sales proceeds will be turned into new purchase of
    potato seeding to be planted and distributed the same way. Governed by
    LEJAME Fund, the potato seeding fund will operate by the similar scheme
    increasing its volume from year to year.

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    UNDP is on ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own
    solutions to global and national development challenges. UNDP in Armenia
    was established in 1993 and supports the Government of Armenia to reach
    its own development priorities and the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
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