{"id":2894,"date":"2018-07-20T18:15:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T14:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2018-08-31T15:15:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T11:15:56","slug":"members-of-the-armenian-business-coalition-discussed-the-eu-project-with-the-deputy-minister-of-economic-development-and-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/2894.html","title":{"rendered":"Members of the Armenian Business Coalition Discussed the EU Project with the Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">On 20 July, RA Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Investments Mr. Hakob Avagyan met with the members of the Armenian Business Coalition in the scope of the EU-funded &#8220;Commitment to Constructive Dialogue&#8221; (CCD) project.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Mr. Karen Gevorgyan, the Deputy Executive Director of SME National Development Centre, Ms. Mariam Badalyan, a representative from GIZ (<\/span>German Agency for International Cooperation<span style=\"color: #000000\">), Mr. Koryun Gevorgyan, a representative from the RA Ministry of Economic Development and Investments, were also present at the meeting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">In Mr. Avagyan&#8217;s words, the interests of the ministry, GIZ, and the consortium are the same and there is a need to write a new strategy of SME sector development. He also noted that GIZ is a supporting organisation in this case.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Ms. Mariam Badalyan mentioned that they are ready to carry out deep monitoring\/analysis of the existing strategy and the actions presented in it in the scope of that support. As those actions are also foreseen in the sub-grant project implemented by the Armenian Business Coalition, the parties discussed the matter of avoiding overlaps and using time and resources efficiently.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The parties decided that both entities would implement monitoring and then compare the data. That would be more efficient. Afterwards, functions would be divided per territories and beneficiaries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The <strong>\u201cCommitment to Constructive Dialogue\u201d<\/strong> project is implemented with the financial support of the European Union by a Consortium of civil society organizations, which are \u201cArmenian Lawyers\u2019 Association\u201d, Agora Central Europe o.p.s (an NGO from the Czech Republic), \u201cArmenian Center for Democratic Education-CIVITAS\u201d NGO, \u201cInternational Center for Human Development\u201d Public Organization, \u201cSME Cooperation Association\u201d NGO and Union of Communities of Armenia.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 20 July, RA Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Investments Mr. Hakob Avagyan met with the members of the Armenian Business Coalition in the scope of the EU-funded &#8220;Commitment to Constructive Dialogue&#8221; (CCD) project.\u00a0 Mr. Karen Gevorgyan, the Deputy Executive Director of SME National Development Centre, Ms. Mariam Badalyan, a representative from GIZ (German &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,8,6,49,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coalitions","category-coalitions-coalitions","category-coalitions-grants","category-grants","category-news-coalitions","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2895,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions\/2895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}