Community Project Showcase
This page is dedicated to highlighting the various projects our member organizations are implementing on the ground in Armenia.
We hope to increase public awareness of these projects and help to put interested members in touch who might not have known about each other’s activities otherwise.
If you would like to add your organization’s project to this page, please Contact Us.
**Please note that we only display currently active (i.e. not completed) projects, and we reserve the right to assess the progress of the project prior to accepting it for display in the Showcase. For this reason you may wish to send supporting materials demonstrating project activity along with your request for inclusion in the Showcase.
Yerevan’s Only Privately Funded Shelter–Save the Animals (click on “Eng” for English)
Since 2003 Save the Animals has functioned on piecemeal donations from private individuals who have seen the pitiful situation that Yerevan’s street dogs must face–shooting in the streets as a method of population control and general mistreatment as they are viewed as “expendable.” Volunteer staff work tirelessly to save as many street dogs as they can, cleaning and housing them on a privately owned compound and attempting to find homes for these naturally domesticated animals. Directions for direct donation available on the site.
White Stork Project–Acopian Center for the Environment (ACE)
ACE is currently involved in research projects that involve using the white stork as an indicator of ecological health and that work with citizens in the villages and small towns to become citizen scientists who help with their data collection and observations of stork biology. ACE is incorporating Geographic Information System (GIS) and GPS technologies as well as water and soil quality analyses into the study of reproductive success for the storks.
Improving Energy Efficiency in Urban Heating and Hot Water Supply–UN Development Programme (UNDP)
UNDP is helping to develop the capacity of the condominiums or other forms of consumer associations to manage their operations and to organize the heat and hot water supply services collectively at the building level. It is important to develop capacity of the local municipalities built to develop and implement sustainable heat and hot water supply plans and to manage the remaining assets of the former district heating systems.
Raising awareness campaign in frame of “Biodiversity Protection and Community Development–AWHHE
The overall goal of this Armenian Women for Health and Healthy Environment (AWHHE) project is to help ensure effective protection of biodiversity and sustainable management of natural resources in southern Armenia, providing an operational model that can contribute to development in the Caucasus region.