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ARMENIA'S STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM'S SECTION RELATING TO POVERTY REDUCTION NEEDS IMPROVEMENT
YEREVAN, March 19. /ARKA/. Armenia's strategic development program's
section relating to poverty reduction needs improvement, the sectoral
group of the Civil Society Network of the Sustainable Development
Program/ the Strategic Program of Prospective Development for
2012-2025 says.
The aims of the strategic program are to create new jobs, develop human
resources, reform the social security system and ensure institutional
improvement to governing institutions.
Veronika Melikyan, coordinator of the Civil Society Network's social
group, said yesterday that the planned poverty reduction projects
are based on demographic figures of 2004, while the figures of the
latest census are not mentioned here.
Participants of yesterday's discussion also pointed out that there
are no allusions to any independent social study, i.e. no alterative
approaches have been included in the strategy.
"The strategy's social section contains very few social programs,
and the system is not flexible - all the social projects planned to
be implemented are alike," Melikyan said.
Poverty and abject penury criteria are not taken into account in the
strategic program.
"For example, the subsistence system meets basic requirements and this
in mind the government plans to reduce abject poverty, but living
standards remain unchanged and estimation mechanisms and criteria
are wrong here," she said.
Aram Grigoryan, a member of the of the Civil Society Network's council,
the social section of the strategy contains no step-by-step measures
to be taken to achieve goals - there are the list of wishes instead.
Besides, he said, the objectives of the program don't comport with
inside and outside risks, particularly corruption risks. --0--
From: Baghdasarian
YEREVAN, March 19. /ARKA/. Armenia's strategic development program's
section relating to poverty reduction needs improvement, the sectoral
group of the Civil Society Network of the Sustainable Development
Program/ the Strategic Program of Prospective Development for
2012-2025 says.
The aims of the strategic program are to create new jobs, develop human
resources, reform the social security system and ensure institutional
improvement to governing institutions.
Veronika Melikyan, coordinator of the Civil Society Network's social
group, said yesterday that the planned poverty reduction projects
are based on demographic figures of 2004, while the figures of the
latest census are not mentioned here.
Participants of yesterday's discussion also pointed out that there
are no allusions to any independent social study, i.e. no alterative
approaches have been included in the strategy.
"The strategy's social section contains very few social programs,
and the system is not flexible - all the social projects planned to
be implemented are alike," Melikyan said.
Poverty and abject penury criteria are not taken into account in the
strategic program.
"For example, the subsistence system meets basic requirements and this
in mind the government plans to reduce abject poverty, but living
standards remain unchanged and estimation mechanisms and criteria
are wrong here," she said.
Aram Grigoryan, a member of the of the Civil Society Network's council,
the social section of the strategy contains no step-by-step measures
to be taken to achieve goals - there are the list of wishes instead.
Besides, he said, the objectives of the program don't comport with
inside and outside risks, particularly corruption risks. --0--
From: Baghdasarian