{"id":2030,"date":"2017-11-10T20:05:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T16:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2017-11-13T11:09:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T07:09:18","slug":"the-armenian-lawyers-association-and-the-union-of-communities-of-armenia-signed-a-cooperation-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/2030.html","title":{"rendered":"The Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association and the Union of Communities of Armenia signed a Cooperation Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To promote the prevention of violation of the rights and interests of the population and to ensure the participation of the population in the decision-making process of the local self-government, to develop a transparent and accountable working style in the local self-governance bodies. Today the Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association and the Union of Communities of Armenia signed a Cooperation Agreement in the framework of the Forum for Local Democracy in Armenia \u201cOutlook for the Future: a new Agenda for Decentralization\u201d, which was launched today in Yerevan on the occasion of the Local Self-Government Day.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Karen Zadoyan, President of the Armenian lawyers\u2019 Association and Mr. Emin Yeritsyan, President of the Union of Communities of Armenia signed the Agreement\u2024<\/p>\n<p>When concluding the Agreement, the parties took into account the role of the Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association as a specialized organization in the human rights and anti-corruption spheres and the role of the Union of Communities of Armenia in improving the efficiency of local self-government bodies.<\/p>\n<p>By this document the parties undertook to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Join efforts and potential to develop an effective local self-governance system, to promote transparency, accountability and integrity principles in Armenia,<\/li>\n<li>Identify deficiencies in the implementation of legal acts and practices, including possible corruption risks, jointly initiate and elaborate procedural and systemic legislative reforms, pursue their adoption,<\/li>\n<li>Discuss and elaborate reforms and public policy strategies, recommendations, follow up on their adoption process,<\/li>\n<li>Organize legal and methodological, as well as anti-corruption and integrity trainings for community servants,<\/li>\n<li>Establish a local self-governing bodies &#8211; civil society organizations network,<\/li>\n<li>Carry out through the civil society organizations participatory monitoring of the quality of services provided by local self-governing bodies, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To promote the prevention of violation of the rights and interests of the population and to ensure the participation of the population in the decision-making process of the local self-government, to develop a transparent and accountable working style in the local self-governance bodies. Today the Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association and the Union of Communities of Armenia &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2032,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/2032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}