15/04/2010 Mr. Adrian Laycock (Scotland), MCA-Armenia Irrigation Infrastructure project technical auditor, is finishing his one month visit to Armenia. According to his contract with MCA-Armenia, Mr. Laycock will have three working visits (one month each) to Armenia during the last 1,5 years of program implementation. During his visits the technical auditor is supposed to review the
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10/04/2010 On April 10, 2010 the Millennium Challenge Account - Armenia (MCA-Armenia) marked the completion of 550 meters of the tertiary canal in Norabats community (Ararat marz) through a unique event. In collaboration with Foundation for Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets (FPWC) and Sunchild Eco-clubs, MCA-Armenia, its partners, and Norabats community members joint their efforts to clean the
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26/02/2010 On February 26, 2010 a press conference, initiated by the RA Government, took place. The topic of the press conference was "Irrigation system in Armenia: investments, results, plans for future". The press conference took place at the Government's press center with participation of the representatives of key programs working on the rehabilitation of the irrigation infrastructure - MCA-Armenia and
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12/02/2010 Ljiljana Spasic-Gril and Stuart Gunn, representatives of MCCs independent Engineering Consultant Company-Jacobs (UK), were in Armenia from February 8 through February 13. This was yet another mission through which MCCs independent consultant reviews the works in progress under MCA-Armenia's Infrastructure Activity and provides feedback to MCC and MCA-Armenia on how well they are progressing, both
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04/02/2010 On February 4, the Stakeholders' Committee held a full day outreach meeting to discuss and amend SC Bylaws, clarify the mechanisms of the GC members' selection and a few other internal regulatory issues.
During the outreach event ongoing projects of the MCA-Armenia Program were presented to the SC members as well as their possible participation was discussed. As traditional role of the SC
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03/02/2010 On February 3, 2010 the implementing company of the Credit component of the Water-to-Market activity - Rural Finance Facility (RFF) PIU, presented the summarized research of the credits disbursed up to date. It is almost 2 years that the Credit component is being implemented. During the first year credit resources were disbursed through 4 banks and universal credit organizations selected through
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22/01/2010 On January 22, 2010 MCA-Armenia CEO Ara Hovsepyan, accompanied with a group of staff members, visited Armavir and Ararat marzes. In Lukashin, Hovtashat and Nizami communities the MCA-Armenia team got acquainted with the activities of the farmer cooperatives which are members of the Federation of Agricultural Associations (FAA), particularly - capacities of the collection points under the
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