Sustainable Development Program
I. General information
What is the type of the document?:
Programme
Country:
Title of the programme/strategy:
Sustainable Development Program
Title of the programme/strategy:
Կայուն զարգացման ծրագիր
Keywords:
Overview:
Improvement of the living conditions of the population, including the elimination of extreme poverty is one of the key objectives of the Sustainable Development Program. The next goal of the Sustainable Development Program is to restrain the deepening of existing economic growth disproportions through development and introduction of the targeted territorial policy ensuring the accelerated development of weak regions. The strategy of SDP is composed of three main priority directions in order to: ensure sustainable and rapid economic growth; implement the targeted social and income policies aimed at the active and vulnerable (including the poor) social groups; and modernize the country’s administration system, including the increase of the efficiency of the public governance and provision of the advanced growth of the resources package at the disposal of the country. At the same time the mentioned priorities will be brought about in parallel with measures aimed to tackle such crucial issues as environmental protection and effective management of natural resources.
Background and rationale:
In the conditions of stable economic growth, the approach of national environmental policy should focus on ensuring availability of natural resources for future growth, their balanced use and establishment of guarantees for prevention of environmental pollution. Armenia’s integration in regional and international cooperation frameworks poses new requirements in terms of environmental management, including the creation of sound mechanisms for monitoring of transboundary impact of movement of hazardous and toxic waste and genetically modified
organisms. In view of Armenia’s GDP growth trends, the negative environmental impact of economic activity and exploitation of natural resources will continue to grow. To counter these
negative aspects of the economic growth, it will be necessary to promote the promulgation of best and environmentally safest economic management tools and resource-efficient technologies to ensure that obsolete and hazardous technologies are eventually ruled out. In environmental management area, mitigation of corruption risks requires simplification and streamlining of management and introduction of management. Improved administration should be coupled with the development of mechanisms of incentives for environmentally benign practices based on public-private partnership principles and comprising mechanisms for rating of enterprises in terms of environmental impact of their operations; international ISO standards should also be put
in place.
II. Detailed information
Start date:
30/10/2008
Research policy priorities targeted:
Additional remarks:
Environmental policy
The programme/strategy was inspired by:
Geographic coverage:
Armenia
Target group(s):
Additional remarks:
The strategy targets all private and public entities involved in all fields of the economic activity of the country
Target fields:
IV. How to find out more
Information source:
http://www.nature-ic.am/ccarmenia/en/
Administering agency:
Government of the republic of Armenia.
URL : http://www.gov.am/en/
Correspondent name:
Anahit Khachikyan
Correspondent institution:
Center of Ideas and Technologies
Correspondent contact details:
e-mail: anip@sci.am
Date of submission:
16/04/2009 10:22