Armenia
The EC provides budget assistance (about € 10 million per annum) to the Ministry of Finance, provided that agreed conditionalities are met. These conditionalities include meeting targets in the following sectors:
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Food security and poverty reduction - including the preparation of the quarterly food security bulletin |
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Market and institutional reform |
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Social security |
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Agriculture |
FAO projects in Armenia
address sustainable mountain development, pest control and land consolidation, food safety, training in agricultural biotechnology and bee-keeping.
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Other Food Security Programmes
Rural Enterprise and Small-scale Commercial Agriculture Development Project (RESCAD)
The World Bank is implementing this
four year $20 million project aimed at 'supporting the development of small and medium-scale rural businesses by improving the ability of farmers and rural entrepreneurs to access markets and by stimulating market-oriented private and public investments in rural areas'.
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Millennium Challenge Account in Armenia
The Millennium Challenge Corporation approved a five-year, $235.65 million Compact with the Government of Armenia in December 2005. Activities will concentrate on rural road rehabilitation and improving irrigation.
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> Millennium Challenge Account in Armenia Website
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
UNDP has implemented programmes in the fields of
social security
and rural poverty alleviation. It is also conducting a pro-poor assessment of agricultural strategies.
Rural Areas Economic Development Programme (RAEDP)
This is a $15 million
programme financed by IFAD aimed at
increasing sustainable employment and incomes among rural people in the mountain areas of seven marzes and stimulating sustained growth of rural enterprise activities.
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> Other IFAD Projects in Armenia
