REDUCING POVERTY
A1 Plus | 13:43:40 | 24-11-2004 | Social |
Under UNO data, 42% of population in Armenia is poor. The extremely
poor make 17%. “We will sharply reduce the figure and then pass
on to the poor”, Ashot Esayan, Armenian Deputy Minister of Social
Welfare says.
>From November 24 to 26 the international seminar on “Consolidation
of Potential for Social Monitoring in CIS States: Strategic Programs
on Poverty Reduction and Millennium Development Goals” will be held in
“Marriott-Armenia” Hotel of Yerevan.
Representatives of both local and international organizations, UNO
various agencies, New York, Geneva, Bratislava Offices and experts from
Poland, Tanzania, Albania, Kazakhstan and other states partake in it.
The seminar organizer – UNDP aims to exchange the experience
accumulated in social monitoring sphere through participants.
Armenia has been passing the way for poverty reduction program for 1
year and established the system of social monitoring and analysis as
the “instrument of fast response”. “Since Armenia was the first to set
up the system CIS experts will study it within the 3-day-long seminar
“to apply some things in their own countries”, Ashot Esayan says.
Deputy Minister informed Government will expand the system to control
and coordinate the activity of central, district and commune state
agencies, which mainly run independently of one another.