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Supporting Armenia’s Growing Older Population: Swiss Delegation Visits Shirak Region

21.03.2025 — Article Armenia
With nearly 15% of Armenia’s population already over 65—and projected to reach almost one-third by 2050—the demand for dedicated elderly care services is increasingly urgent. Since 2016, the Swiss Red Cross (SRC) and the Armenian Red Cross Society (ARCS) have partnered to tackle challenges such as economic insecurity, limited healthcare, and isolation faced by elderly individuals and persons with disabilities. Their Home-Based Care and Active Ageing program, now in its third phase, currently supports over 500 home-care clients and engages more than 400 older residents in social groups, significantly improving participants' quality of life.

Call for Small Project Proposals 2024

03.09.2024 — Press releases Armenia
The Swiss Cooperation Office (SCO) in Armenia offers financing of small action projects, and is calling for transformative proposals by youth and/or women-led Non-Governmental Organizations - NGOs. The proposed project ideas should be focused on empowering Armenian women, men and non-binary people on topics of their concern and should be in line with the Swiss Cooperation Program’s priority areas.  

Call for Arts and Culture Project Proposals 2024

30.08.2024 — Article Armenia
The Swiss Cooperation Office (SCO) in Armenia announces a call for proposals for small, transformative projects in the field of contemporary arts (including painting, sculpture, photography, video art, installation art, performance art, digital art, etc.). This call aims to provide funding for creative and innovative initiatives that significantly contribute to the development of contemporary arts in the Republic of Armenia.

CHF 12 mln for advancing growth in mountainous settlements of Armenia. Swiss SIGMA project kicks off

22.03.2024 — Press releases Armenia
On 22 March, 2024, the Sustainable Inclusive Growth in Mountainous Armenia (SIGMA) project officially launched in Yerevan. It is funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and implemented by DAI Global UK (DAI) and its branch in Armenia, in cooperation with AM Partners Consulting Company as a local partner. SIGMA aims to reduce poverty and inequality in mountainous areas of Armenia in an inclusive, innovative and environmentally friendly manner.  With a budget of CHF 12 mln (if the financial situation of the SDC allows it over time), this ten-year project primarily targets rural settlements in the regions of Shirak, Lori, Tavush and Gegharkunik. 

Call for Submissions: Inviting Armenian Stakeholders in Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) and Agroforestry

01.03.2024 — Article Armenia
At the end of 2023, the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) in Armenia started the Opening Phase of a planned new 10-year project "Forest Restoration and Climate Change in Armenia (FORACCA)". Besides strengthening climate-smart policy-making and local-level adaptation capacities and improving Armenia's scientific and technological capacities for forest monitoring and management, the project aims to promote climate-smart practices in rural areas and contribute to the engagement of rural communities in Forest Landscape Restoration and agroforestry. Parts of the project will be implemented by the ETH-linked Swiss Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), while in the area of forest restoration, SDC plans on contributing to existing and ongoing efforts of Armenian NGOs.

Switzerland invests 10 Mio. CHF for 10-year forest restoration project with Armenia

19.12.2023 — Press releases Armenia
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) launches a 10-years project "Forest Restoration and Climate Change in Armenia” (FORACCA). An amount of 10 Mio. CHF (around 11.5. Mio. USD) is envisaged for the period 2023-2033, subject to a recurring review by the SDC of the feasibility of the project from an overall budgetary perspective. 

Cultural Projects 2023: My Home – Armenia in a Rapidly Changing World

20.06.2023 — Article Armenia
In February 2023, the Swiss Cooperation Office in Armenia SCO called for creative and innovative project proposals, which contribute to the development of contemporary arts in Armenia with the slogan "My Home – Armenia in a Rapidly Changing World". With the call, the SCO invited artists to reflect on life in this difficult geographical place; on being Armenian in a cosmopolitan world; and on living today but with an open, potentially promising future ahead. 

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