Individuals Involved in the Sector of Agriculture in Gavar Participated in a Town Hall Workshop

On 21 August 2018, a Town Hall workshop took place in Gavar in the scope of the “Commitment to Constructive Dialogue” project funded by the European Union. 

The workshop was initiated by the Agricultural Alliance of Armenia in cooperation with the International Centre for Human Development. It was organized in the scope of the “Participatory Policies, Sustainable Agriculture” sub-grant project which is implemented in the scope of the “Commitment to Constructive Dialogue” project funded by the European Union. 

The workshop gathered in one room the stakeholders of the sector of agriculture of the marz, to raise sectoral issues, which would serve as a basis for the Nationwide Farmers’ Congress planned for October where the respective issues would be presented to the respective representatives of the Government and the National Assembly. 

The “Commitment to Constructive Dialogue” project is implemented with the financial support of the European Union by a consortium of civil society organizations, which are the “Armenian Lawyers’ Association” NGO, Agora Central Europe o.p.s (an NGO from the Czech Republic), the “Armenian Center for Democratic Education-CIVITAS” NGO, the “International Center for Human Development” Public Organization, the “SME Cooperation Association” NGO and the Union of Communities of Armenia.

The overall objective of the project is to enhance the influence of CSOs and their coalitions (networks) on the public policy process. This will enable the organizations (that already work in target coalitions) to gain new resources, unite civil society experts and encourage them to participate in the formation of local and national policy agenda, identify the common problems and priorities and to apply to the government with constructive and strategic policy initiatives. 

In the scope of the project, sub-grants will be allocated to CSOs and CSO coalitions, aiming at public policy development and achieving tangible results in the 9 target sectors: justice, human rights, public finance management, business, education, social sector: social inclusion of children with disabilities, agriculture, economy, energy.