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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]
Web site: http://www.undp.am
Partnering for local sustainable development through citizen participation
Yerevan, 13 July 2012 - On 12 May 2012 Dafina Gercheva, UN Resident
Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative in Armenia and Eduardo
Eurnekian, a prominent Argentinean-Armenian businessman and founder of
Fruitful Armenia Foundation (FAF) had signed a cost-sharing agreement
to support agricultural and micro-business activities in Baghramyan,
Arevadasht, Artamet and Myasnikyan communities of Armavir region. The
total cost of the "Armenian Village Revival: A Drive for Employment
and Income Generation" project is USD 230,000 from which Fruitfull
Armenia's share is USD 204,000.
Baghramyan, Arevadasht, Artamet and Myasnikyan rural communities have
poor irrigation and water supply networks, lack agricultural
equipment, as well as knowledge about new agricultural technologies,
which are the underlying reasons behind the low level of agricultural
productivity and high level of poverty in these communities.
Within the framework of the project, UNDP Armenia aims, through the
participatory planning approach, to support the four communities to
develop their 2012-2014 Strategic Community Development Plans - a tool
to prioritize local community needs, and provide efficient solutions
to these problems. Challenges and development opportunities are best
addressed when the intervention is holistic, focusing on the three
pillars of sustainable development (e.g. social, economic and
environmental) and fostering decentralization and good local
governance.
Today, Dafina Gercheva and Eduardo Eurnekian visited Artamet community
where UNDP has already initiated the first phase of the project. The
draft Community Development Plan is ready and has identified the lack
of potable water, poor irrigation and low efficiency of agricultural
productivity as the main obstacles to community development. In order
to address these problems, Artamet community proposes to renovate the
water supply network and the deep well, as well as construction of
greenhouses in the community.
"Development challenges, such as reducing poverty, bridging regional
disparities and socio-economic inequalities, and promoting sustainable
development, are multi-sectoral and complex hence collaborative and
partnership approaches to address those are required. Partnering with
Fruitfull Armenia Foundation, we believe we can make a
difference. Promotion of local sustainable development, through
citizen participation in decision-making activities, is high on UNDP
agenda," said Dafina Gercheva, UN RC/UNDP RR.
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UNDP partners with people at all levels of society to help build
nations that can withstand crisis, and drive and sustain the kind of
growth that improves the quality of life for everyone. On the ground
in 177 countries and territories, we offer global perspective and
local insight to help empower lives and build resilient nations.
UNDP in Armenia has been established in March 1993 and supports the
government to reach national development priorities and the Millennium
Development Goals by 2015.
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]
Web site: http://www.undp.am
Partnering for local sustainable development through citizen participation
Yerevan, 13 July 2012 - On 12 May 2012 Dafina Gercheva, UN Resident
Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative in Armenia and Eduardo
Eurnekian, a prominent Argentinean-Armenian businessman and founder of
Fruitful Armenia Foundation (FAF) had signed a cost-sharing agreement
to support agricultural and micro-business activities in Baghramyan,
Arevadasht, Artamet and Myasnikyan communities of Armavir region. The
total cost of the "Armenian Village Revival: A Drive for Employment
and Income Generation" project is USD 230,000 from which Fruitfull
Armenia's share is USD 204,000.
Baghramyan, Arevadasht, Artamet and Myasnikyan rural communities have
poor irrigation and water supply networks, lack agricultural
equipment, as well as knowledge about new agricultural technologies,
which are the underlying reasons behind the low level of agricultural
productivity and high level of poverty in these communities.
Within the framework of the project, UNDP Armenia aims, through the
participatory planning approach, to support the four communities to
develop their 2012-2014 Strategic Community Development Plans - a tool
to prioritize local community needs, and provide efficient solutions
to these problems. Challenges and development opportunities are best
addressed when the intervention is holistic, focusing on the three
pillars of sustainable development (e.g. social, economic and
environmental) and fostering decentralization and good local
governance.
Today, Dafina Gercheva and Eduardo Eurnekian visited Artamet community
where UNDP has already initiated the first phase of the project. The
draft Community Development Plan is ready and has identified the lack
of potable water, poor irrigation and low efficiency of agricultural
productivity as the main obstacles to community development. In order
to address these problems, Artamet community proposes to renovate the
water supply network and the deep well, as well as construction of
greenhouses in the community.
"Development challenges, such as reducing poverty, bridging regional
disparities and socio-economic inequalities, and promoting sustainable
development, are multi-sectoral and complex hence collaborative and
partnership approaches to address those are required. Partnering with
Fruitfull Armenia Foundation, we believe we can make a
difference. Promotion of local sustainable development, through
citizen participation in decision-making activities, is high on UNDP
agenda," said Dafina Gercheva, UN RC/UNDP RR.
***
UNDP partners with people at all levels of society to help build
nations that can withstand crisis, and drive and sustain the kind of
growth that improves the quality of life for everyone. On the ground
in 177 countries and territories, we offer global perspective and
local insight to help empower lives and build resilient nations.
UNDP in Armenia has been established in March 1993 and supports the
government to reach national development priorities and the Millennium
Development Goals by 2015.