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Workshop "Strengthening National Capacities for Urban Planning, Housing, Energy Efficiency and Disaster Risk Reduction"

09 April 2015
Yerevan Armenia

This workshop in Armenia is part of a larger project, which is implemented from 2014 until 2017, and will support sustainable housing in four selected countries with economies in transition (Armenia, Republic of Moldova, Serbia and Tajikistan) by assisting their national governments in the formulation and implementation of relevant policies and by developing National Action Plans for Sustainable Housing and Urban Development.

These are policy oriented workshops; they are to support discussion on implementation and development of policies on housing and urban issues.

The workshops are part of a project implemented jointly with UN-Habitat. Please see a short description at National Capacities for Sustainable Housing.

Project partners:

Ministry of Urban Development of the Republic of Armenia 
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe 
United Nations Human Settlements Programme 

Project period: 
March 2014 - December 2017

Workshop agenda

List of participants 

Presentations: 

Title ENG RUS
HABITAT III preparations
Paulius Kulikauskas, UN-Habitat
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Housing policy, Housing Fund
Evgenya Atayan, Ministry of Urban Development of RA
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State support programmes for housing provision of socially vulnerable groups
Astghik Minasyan, Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs of RA
PDF  
Energy efficiency in the housing sector
Diana Harutyunyan, UNDP-GEF
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Promotion of energy efficiency: ongoing efforts in the Republic of Armenia
Astghine Pasoyan, Foundation to Save Energy (ESF)
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Proposals for development of housing sector and energy efficiency of infrastructures for Goris City
Arsen Karapetyan, UNDP-GEF
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Sustainable urban development and spatial planning in the UK and Europe - Policy implications for Armenia
Keith Thorpe, UK
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Seismic risk reduction activities in the regions
Hrachya Petrosyan, Ministry of Territorial Administration and Emergency Situations of RA
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Application of information technologies in real estate cadastre of Armenia
Aram Stepanyan, State Committee of Real Estate Cadastre
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Legal zoning of land use as an efficient tool of urban regulation: examples from CIS/opportunities in Armenia
Andrey Ivanov, Russian Housing Department Foundation (Moscow)
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Public services arising from mandatory powers of head of community
Lusine Harutyunyan, Ministry of Territorial Administration and Emergency Situations of RA
PDF