📋 Tender Overview
Grantee:Green Armenia Environmental Educational NGO Country:Armenia
Area Of Work:Land Degradation
Grant Amount:US$ 25,000.00
Co-Financing Cash:US$ 86,885.00
Co-Financing in-Kind:US$ 9,550.00
Project Number:ARM/SGP/OP7/Y3/CORE/LD/23/16
Status:Currently under execution
Description: The project aims to generate additional source of income in Gndevaz settlement of Jermuk consolidated community for increasing the efficiency and productivity of farming through introducing smart management of natural resources. The population in Gndevaz is mainly engaged in cattle breeding and farming. The overall agricultural lands make up 5677 hectares, of which cropland is 492 hectares, perennial plant land are 141.8 hectares, 180 hectares are arable, 120 hectares are not irrigated. The communal lands are prone to degradation, landslide areas need rehabilitation and smart cultivation.The community has sufficient water resources, that are accumulated in Kechut and Gndevaz reservoirs. However, due to malfunctioning of the system out of 500 l/s of available irrigation water, it is possible to use only 150 l/s.
As a result of a military conflict in 2020 war, Armenia's water resources, as well as land areas were reduced. The situation in Jermuk consolidated community worsened even moreafter the expansion of the conflict in September 2022, when water sources and grassland areas of the community appeared in the conflict zone.
The project plans to restore the irrigation system to convert abandoned 120 ha to irrigated land, thus improving the livelihoods of 180 community households and preventing migration. In parallel, new irrigation technologies, such as drip irrigation, sprinklers, etc., will be introduced, as well as terracing as a restoration of a traditional cultivation culture will be implemented.
