{"id":3025,"date":"2018-06-15T18:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/?p=3025"},"modified":"2019-04-29T10:31:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T06:31:48","slug":"participatory-monitoring-for-the-creation-of-smart-communities-in-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/3025.html","title":{"rendered":"New SME Development Strategy for Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Project title<\/strong> \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0“New SME Development Strategy for Armenia”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Coalition title<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Armenian Business Coalition<\/span><\/p>\n

Consortium members<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Shirak Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SHAAP),\u00a0Civic Development and Partnership Foundation (CDPF), Association of Social Enterprises of Armenia (EITI),\u00a0“Regional Business Center” Business Support NGO, Impact Business Club (AGA),\u00a0Business Support Office (GIS).<\/span><\/p>\n

Project duration<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>12 months<\/span><\/p>\n

Project total budget\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 <\/strong><\/em>AMD 25 000 000, funding provided by the “Commitment to Constructive Dialogue” project\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>22 500 000, applicant’s financial contribution\u00a0\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>2 500 000.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Implementation place<\/strong> \u2013 <\/strong><\/em>Yerevan, Shirak Region\u00a0\u2013<\/strong> Gyumri, Gegharkunik Region\u00a0\u2013<\/strong> Gavar, representatives from communities, different state and non-state organisations of other RA marzes will also be involved in the studies related to the problems in the SME sector.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The “New SME Development Strategy for Armenia” project targets small and medium entrepreneurship (SME) in Armenia, as well as key issues related to a rapidly growing sub-sector of social entrepreneurship (SE), of which:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. The absence of a new strategy with realistic and up-to-date approaches to the SME sector development in Armenia,<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Mechanisms for the participation of civil society organizations (CSOs) and business associations in the processes in the sector,<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. The necessity to carry out multifaceted dialogue on the introduction of the institution of business advocate (Business Ombudsman),<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Necessity of substantial improvement of the state policy on general education, including the development of business education programs, as well as the development and implementation of modern educational programs.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The goal of the project is to develop and submit to the Government of Armenia a widely debated, well-grounded and partly-tested draft of the new SME sector development strategy 2019-2021, which will be essential for the effective organization of the further development of the SME sector in Armenia and will include all of the above-mentioned issues.<\/span><\/p>\n

    The new SME strategy to be submitted to the Armenian government will be developed through communication and meetings organized within the SME dialogue platform.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Within the framework of the project, a pilot project in Gyumri and Gavar will be used for existing tools (e\u2024g\u2024 BizProtect website) to provide operational solutions to the problems. The results of the pilot project will be presented and discussed at the SME dialogue platform.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Together with the Ministry of Education and Science of Armenia, a social entrepreneurship education platform will be established to be tested in Gavar, Yerevan and Gyumri, in one secondary, one vocational and one higher education institutions. The results will be discussed at the SME dialogue platform, and proposals for improving the business education policy will be presented.<\/span><\/p>\n

    As a result of the project, the Armenian Business Coalition will be set up to unite the efforts of all CSOs and associations which protect the interests of this sector.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Second project –\u00a0\u201cCapacity Development of the Armenian Business Coalition\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    The \u201cCapacity Building of the Armenian Business Coalition\u201d project\u00a0is aimed at the capacity development of the Armenian Business Coalition (ABC),\u00a0established as a result of the first phase of the \u201cNew Strategy for the Effective Development\u00a0of the SME Sector in Armenia\u201d project.<\/span><\/p>\n

    It is anticipated that, as a result, a strong prospective platform will be created to promote the\u00a0development of the business sector in Armenia. The ABC will play an active role in promoting\u00a0reforms for improving the business environment in Armenia, assisting in the processes of the\u00a0currently initiated \u201cEconomic revolution,\u201d and of the development of relevant public policies.<\/span><\/p>\n

    ABC will serve as a platform for communication between the society, business sector, the government and other stakeholders and organisations, and will become an active and\u00a0efficient institution advocating for the rights and further development of the Armenian\u00a0business sector.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Project title \u2013\u00a0“New SME Development Strategy for Armenia”\u00a0 Coalition title\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Armenian Business Coalition Consortium members\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Shirak Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SHAAP),\u00a0Civic Development and Partnership Foundation (CDPF), Association of Social Enterprises of Armenia (EITI),\u00a0“Regional Business Center” Business Support NGO, Impact Business Club (AGA),\u00a0Business Support Office (GIS). Project duration\u00a0\u2013\u00a012 months Project total budget\u00a0\u2013 AMD 25 000 000, funding …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,8,9,6,49,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coalitions","category-coalitions-coalitions","category-coalitions-grants","category-grantees","category-grants","category-news-coalitions","category-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3025"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4995,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions\/4995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}