{"id":8030,"date":"2023-12-21T09:49:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T05:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/?p=8030"},"modified":"2023-12-22T09:47:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T05:47:35","slug":"the-1st-meeting-of-the-steering-committee-of-budgets-for-citizens-project-was-held-future-tasks-were-discussed-as-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/8030.html","title":{"rendered":"The 1st Meeting of the Steering Committee of \u201cBudgets for Citizens\u201d Project was held: Future Tasks were discussed as well"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Steering Committee of \u201cBudgets for Citizens\u201d Project, which is implemented with the support of the\u00a0European Union\u00a0by the\u00a0Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association in cooperation with partners \u201cEconomic Development and Research Center\u201d (EDRC) NGO and \u201cAgora Central Europe\u201d NGO (Czech Republic),\u00a0<\/strong>held its 1st meeting on 19 December.<\/p>\n

Heads and representatives of the organizations implementing the project, Ms Tatevik Davtyan, Cooperation Section Programme\u00a0Officer of Delegation of the European Union to Armenia, as well as Ms Sveta Harosyan, Acting Head of the Analytical Methodology Section of the Budget Process Coordination of Social Programs Department of the RA Ministry of Finance, Ms Ani Avetisyan, Program\u00a0Manager\u00a0for\u00a0Quantitative Research of Caucasus Research Resource Center \u2013 \u201cArmenia\u201d Foundation, Ms Arpine Hakobyan, President of the \u201cNGO Center\u201d Non-Governmental Organization, attended the meeting.<\/p>\n

In her opening speech, Ms Tatevik Davtyan, positively assessed the involvement of other organizations that do not implement the project in such discussions.<\/p>\n

Mr. Karen Zadoyan, \u201cBudgets for Citizens\u201d Action Lead, President of the Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association, presented the results of the baseline assessment on awareness, needs and use of budget information by CSOs.<\/p>\n

He also presented the\u00a0Budgets.am<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0electronic platform for budget knowledge sharing and learning, which aims to provide publicly available budgetary information, its possibilities, educational sections, etc.\u00a0According to Karen Zadoyan, the launch of information campaign, which is aimed to inform the citizens, CSO representatives and employees of the state bodies about the existing platform and its possibilities will be important as well.\u00a0He stressed that the information will also find a place on social networks to reach a wider audience.<\/p>\n

Ms Karine Harutyunyan, Executive Director of the \u201cEconomic Development and Research Center\u201d NGO, presented an example from one of the already completed studies, \u201cStudy of the International and Armenian Experience of Presenting Budget Information\u201d.\u00a0She said that the citizens should know how the state resources are collected and in which directions they are spent.\u00a0The availability of simple and accessible budget information will make it possible to increase public participation in budget processes as informed beneficiaries and hold the government accountable.<\/p>\n

During the meeting, other activities carried out within the framework of the project were presented as well.<\/p>\n

Representative of the Ministry of Finance Ms Sveta Harosyan noted the importance of such projevts in terms of the quality of budget preparation, amendments and recommendations to it, especially taking into account the fact that NGOs are carriers of the information on the need to allocate a section of funding from the budget to a particular sector. According to her, both the ministry and the public will benefit as a result of the civil society\u2019s activity.<\/p>\n

Ms Ani Avetisyan, representative of the Caucasus Research Resource Center \u2013 \u201cArmenia\u201d Foundation, noted that the Budgets.am electronic platform for budget knowledge sharing and learning will be useful for her both as a citizen, a representative of the foundation, but also as a lecturer.\u00a0She mentioned that she will direct her students to the platform to get interesting and affordable information about budgets.<\/p>\n

Arpine Hakobyan expressed her willingness to cooperate within the framework of the project.<\/p>\n

Other activities carried out within the framework of the project as well as the work to be carried out in the coming year were discussed as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Steering Committee of \u201cBudgets for Citizens\u201d Project, which is implemented with the support of the\u00a0European Union\u00a0by the\u00a0Armenian Lawyers\u2019 Association in cooperation with partners \u201cEconomic Development and Research Center\u201d (EDRC) NGO and \u201cAgora Central Europe\u201d NGO (Czech Republic),\u00a0held its 1st meeting on 19 December. Heads and representatives of the organizations implementing the project, Ms Tatevik …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8032,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030\/revisions\/8032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}