Start date: November 2014
Duration: 30 months, prolonged till March 2019
Budget: EUR 824,625
Donor: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
Partners: Communities Association of Armenia, Ministry of Territorial Administration, local authorities in Armenia

The Project objective was to enhance the organisational capacities of the Communities Association of Armenia (CAA) to become an active stakeholder of the governance system in Armenia through optimisation of its resources and capabilities.

By way of a series of interventions, technical assistance and expert support, the CAA was expected to be able to improve its internal governance, provide better services to its members, mobilise them so they can intervene with a unified voice in the national policy dialogue on decentralization and be consulted by national authorities in line with Recommendation 351 (2014) on the state of local democracy in Armenia, adopted by the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the CoE in March 2014.