Friday, March 24 2017 17:15

ArmInfo. Results of Public Dialogue Challenges and Opportunities Project implemented in Armenia by OXFAM Armenia office within the  EU funding, were   summarized in Yerevan 

According to Margarita Hakobyan,  the director of OXFAM Armenian   Office, the main target of the Project was the improvement of    public sector abilities in the process of policy capsulation through  the conversation with the  Government. According to her words, the  project  covered three sectors: agriculture, health care and social  security. "The basis of the  dialogue between  the Government and the  Public sector are created and the next stage will be the improvement  of that cooperation and moving forward," she stated. 

In her turn,  Lilit Chitchyan,  another representative of OXFAM   Armenian office, mentioned that a monitoring was held in respect to 6  budget-based projects  -  per 2 projects in every sector mentioned.   "The agricultural sector  and social security sectors monitoring is  already completed, and in the sector of health care the works are in  progress still, which is  preconditioned  also with the Minister  shifting," she mentioned. At the same time, Chitchyan mentioned that   all the reports published by the Organization  have generated public  response and appropriate reaction of state entities. " I am sure that  all these problems being raised  will keep on having their public  voicing and in the end of it all will have also their solutions,  because these projects are aimed at the settlement of most vulnerable  and poor groups," she added. 

 To mention, the OXFAM together with partner organizations has  implemented a monitoring of effective utilization of budget assets in  three sectors: agriculture, health care and social security. Due to  the agricultural sector it has been discovered that the consulting  services supplies projects and fuel funding were not effective, but  the responsible  Ministry disagreed with that. Some  mistakes have  been fetched out also in the projects related to the support of old  people and health care. 

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