Funded by: CDPF and CPI/CASP within the framework of the Civil Advocacy Support Program (CASP) in Armenia supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Project Start Date: March 2007
Project Duration: 10 months
Project Implementation: Area Ararat marz, Yerevan
Goal
The decision (resolution) on ensuring of the pesticide burial safety has been adopted by state bodies for the population and the environment.
Output 1
The target audience (local officials, the Prime-minister, the Ministers of Nature Protection, Health, Agriculture…) responded positively to the adoption of decision.
Output 2
Stakeholders (different local and national NGOs, local authorities, the Agency of Emergency, the community representatives, scientists, appropriate specialists and local delegates) for cooperation and involvement in decision making process have been mobilized.
Output 3
Comparative risk assessment of pesticides burial site has been done
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A seminar for the creation of the Working group of stakeholders on “The ecological approaches to the chemicals management” was held on the 30 th of May in Armenia Marriott Hotel.
There participated 49 persons from the Ministry of Nature Protection, Ministry of Agriculture, National Assemble, Emergency Agency and National Academy of Sciences and different NGOs.
The working group was created with 9 representatives of different NGOs and agencies.
Download presentation “Towards Toxic-Free Future – stage 4” – 1.7 MB, Power Point Format
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During the side-event WECF partners presented very strong and impressive their problems and solutions in their countries and gave policy recommendations. Hripsime Jangiryan from Armenian Women for Health and a Healthy Environment (AWHHE) presented the affecting movie “The cost of poverty” about energy poverty and indoor pollution in Armenia.
Download the presentation “Indoor air pollution and energy poverty” – 500 KB, Power point format
“The Cost of Poverty” Movie Background
Armenia is a country with difficult and unique economical situation including energy sector, due to conflicts in the region, it only has one open border towards Georgia , and has no local oil or gas resources. AWHHE works in 3 poor villages. In one, Hayanist village, the school heats the class rooms with kerosene stoves, which spew black smoke into the class rooms and are dangerous as they easily can explode.
The poorest family in the village is a female-headed single household, a widow with 2 daughters, whose social payments are so low that she can not afford to buy heating and cooking fuels. Instead they burn waste products, such as tar and felt.
AWHHE has produced a TV documentary of 15 minutes, which shows the situation in which the school children and this family have to live, and interviews the children on their perceived health effects. A medical doctor explains the negative health effects from a scientific point of view. The documentary is being shown at a series of conferences around the country and at several international conferences, to raise awareness about the severity of energy poverty in the EECCA region and calls for urgent action
WECF organises seminar in Armenia
Seminar on Organic Farming, Wastewater Treatment and Annual TMF project meeting in Yerevan, Armenia
28.11.2005 – Gero Fedtke
From 26-29 January 2006, WECF and project partners will conduct a high-level two-day seminar on organic farming and wastewater treatment, combined with the 2nd annual evaluation and planning meeting of its four-year TMF project, in the capital of Armenia, Yerevan.
| Conference Decentralized Waste Water Management 27 January 2006 |
Conference Organic Agriculture Development Perspectives and Opportunities in Armenia 26 January 2006 |
For more information contact Gero Fedtke.On 26-27 January, WECF and the project partner invite representatives from the three project villages in Armenia, from village and district administrations, and from research institutes, as well as officials from the Armenian water supply sector and the ministries for Nature Protection and Agriculture to a two-day seminar on wastewater treatment and organic farming. In most EECCA countries, like Armenia, wastewater treatment is almost absent in rural areas. The same is true for the prevention of groundwater contamination through agrochemicals. The two-day seminar will present the methods used by the TMF project activities and findings of the first project year to the audience with the aim to stimulate discussion and cooperation between stakeholders, how low-cost decentralized wastewater treatment can be realized and organic farming practices be used on a larger scale. In the following two-day meeting, project partners will evaluate their achievements of the first project year and discuss the planned steps for the second year.
Source: http://www.egora.de/cms/articles/2005/11/seminar_ar.php
Seminar on Organic Farming, Wastewater Treatment and Annual TMF project meeting in Yerevan, Armenia
28.11.2005 – Gero Fedtke
From 26-29 January 2006, WECF and project partners will conduct a high-level two-day seminar on organic farming and wastewater treatment, combined with the 2nd annual evaluation and planning meeting of its four-year TMF project, in the capital of Armenia, Yerevan.
| Conference Decentralized Waste Water Management 27 January 2006 |
Conference Organic Agriculture Development Perspectives and Opportunities in Armenia 26 January 2006 |
For more information contact Gero Fedtke.On 26-27 January, WECF and the project partner invite representatives from the three project villages in Armenia, from village and district administrations, and from research institutes, as well as officials from the Armenian water supply sector and the ministries for Nature Protection and Agriculture to a two-day seminar on wastewater treatment and organic farming. In most EECCA countries, like Armenia, wastewater treatment is almost absent in rural areas. The same is true for the prevention of groundwater contamination through agrochemicals. The two-day seminar will present the methods used by the TMF project activities and findings of the first project year to the audience with the aim to stimulate discussion and cooperation between stakeholders, how low-cost decentralized wastewater treatment can be realized and organic farming practices be used on a larger scale. In the following two-day meeting, project partners will evaluate their achievements of the first project year and discuss the planned steps for the second year.
Source: http://www.egora.de/cms/articles/2005/11/seminar_ar.php