Support to Comprehensive Agricultural Census: Phase 2



Contract partner: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme - United States Country: Armenien Funding amount: € 524.687,00 Project start: 01.10.2014 End: 31.08.2017

Short Description:

Overall goal


After the pilot census in 2014, the second phase supports the implementation of a full scale agricultural census in the Republic of Armenia. The first agricultural census in the Republic of Armenia since its independence (1991) will provide a wealth of new and reliable information to the Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Territorial Administration for strategy formulation, policy making and focused action plans. In the first place, the census will enhance the national capacities to produce, analyse and disseminate the relevant and reliable statistical information to the central and local public authorities, scientific-educational and financial organizations, business society, mass media, other national users and international organisations interested in agribusiness promotion, agricultural and rural development, poverty reduction, food security and gender issues.


The project outcomes are: 1) Post-enumeration survey assessing the quality of census data carried out; 2) Agricultural census data processed; 3) Publications with agricultural census results elaborated and disseminated to the larger user community and 4) National capacities for development of agricultural and rural statistics in Armenia enhanced.


The direct project beneficary is the National Statistical Service staff (about 60 persons) at central and regional level. About 340.000 small farms in Armenia would indirectly benefit as the census serves as the basis for improved agricultural policies and farmers assistance. Accompanying measures to the project are supported by FAO and USDA in the framework of ENPARD and USAID technical assistance projects.

project number 8291-02/2014
source of funding OEZA
sector Landwirtschaft
tied
modality
marker
  • Policy marker: are used to identify, assess and facilitate the monitoring of activities in support of policy objectives concerning gender equality, aid to environment, participatory development/good governance, trade development and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Activities targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions include the identification of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and desertification.
    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
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  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.