22

May

Vacancy of National Project Coordinator

The Regional Environmental Center for the Caucasus Armenia (REC Caucasus) is seeking a dedicated and experienced National Project Coordinator to join our team in Armenia. This position will play a crucial role in impleme...

01

Dec

Vacancy of International Expert on Agrobiodiversity

Vacancy of International Expert on Agrobiodiversity is available at UNEP/GEF “Land Restoration and Ecosystem Service Improvement through Use of Fruit and Nut Tree Biodiversity in Armenia” Project GEF ID 11140 project...

01

Dec

Vacancy for Gender Expert

Vacancy for Gender expert is available. For more information on vacancy details please open relevant files. Interested candidates should submit their updated CVs and cover letters to the following address: inforeccaucasus@gmail.com by the 11th of December, 2023, by 12:00 a.m...

11

Apr

First National Steering Committee meeting

On April 4, 2012 The Regional Environmental Centre for the Caucasus organized first National Steering Committee meeting within the framework of the project “Improvement of environmental liability regime: Introduction of methodology for valuation of environmental damage“ funded by the Government of Netherlands in Sheraton Metechi Palace Hotel, Tbilisi.

Participants of the meeting included representatives of the ministries and civil society sector of Georgia.

The overall objective of the project, which started on January 2012, is to improve environmental management system in two South Caucasus countries, Armenia and Georgia, through enhancement of the environmental liability regimes. Specifically, the project aims to:

1. Develop modern methodology for estimation of the monetary value of damage caused as a result of environmental pollution and exploitation of natural resources at the national level.

2. Design and implement pilots in selected sectors to illustrate how the elaborated methodology would work in practice and explore replication opportunity at country level.

The purpose of the meeting was to discuss main goals and objectives of the project, as well as elaborate recommendations for detailed work plan and draft key most vulnerable economic sectors. The leading expert of the project Ms. Ekaterine Khvedelidze made presentation regarding goals, objectives and expected outcomes. Mr. Merab Machavariani, local consultant of the project, presented draft key economy sectors, mostly causing damage to the environment. Steering Committee members discussed suggested sectors and gave recommendations to make some amendments to them. Participants assessed the meeting as very productive and informative in terms of project-scope activities.

The first National Steering Committee meeting in Armenia is planned on April 20, 2012.

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