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22/05/2010 On May 22, 2010 the elections for the Stakeholders' Committee (SC) and Governing Council (GC) civil society members under the Millennium Challenge Account Armenia Program were held. The elections 2010 were the fifth and the last one in its kind to be organized with the Program. 282 representatives from different organizations were registered by the election committee to participate at the more...
21/05/2010 From May 12-21 Jonathan Richart, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Environmental Social Assessment (ESA) Associate Director and Armando Balloffet, MCC ESA Consultant were in Armenia on an Implementation Oversight Mission. The primary purpose of this particular mission was to finalize planning for the remaining ESA oversight activities and review the progress to date. More specifically, the more...
21/05/2010 On May 10-21 Gary Merkley, an individual consultant hired by MCC to implement the quality assurance review of the Institutional Strengthening (IS) of Water Management Entities' Project, was paying a working visit to Armenia. The visit was highlighted with various meetings, most of them with irrigation water management entities - Water Users' Associations (WUA), Water Supply Agencies - which are more...
18/05/2010 On May 18, 2010 the donor community and sector specialists participated at the reception devoted to the Environmental and social impact assessment of the MCA-Armenia Program. The key activities and achievement on the Environmental and social impact assessment component were introduced to the event participants who also communicated with the Program implementers and specialists. The meeting was more...
07/05/2010 On May 7, the U.S. Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch and the Deputy Prime Minister Armen Gevorgyan opened 2.5 kilometers of the 8.5 kilometers that constitutes the Aygezard gravity irrigation canal (Ararat marz) rehabilitated under the Millennium Challenge Account-Armenia Program. A farmer's plot at the 1.4 kilometer mark also was the scene for a number of other important programmatic events, more...
30/04/2010 On April 30the election committee candidates for the upcoming MCA-Armenia Stakeholder Committee elections had their first meeting. MCA-Armenia's Coordination Officer Ester Hakobyan presented the new Elections Procedure for 2010 as well as other issues concerning the election process. The role of the election committee was emphasized as representatives of the civil society called to ensure the more...
30/04/2010 From April 26 to 30, 2010, Rebecca Tunstall, MCC M&E Associate Director, and Kenneth Fortson, Mathematica Policy Research (MCC consultant) representative, visited Yerevan to coordinate on a series of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) issues with MCA-Armenia. The main objectives of MCC & MPR's April mission included the following: discussing the sustainability of MCA co-funded Integrated more...
22/04/2010 On April 22, 2010 a group of farmers took possession of 7 Chinese made tractors during an event that was held in Dimitrov community of Ararat marz. This was made possible by Farm Credit Armenia (FCA), one of the ten credit providers involved in Millennium Challenge Account - Armenia's (MCA-Armenia) farm credit program and the initiator of the leasing facility under the MCA-Armenia Credit more...
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