Adaptation Fund “Technical Assistance Grant for ESP and Gender” Project (2018-2020);
EU funded “Sustainable Management of Pastures and Forest in Armenia to Demonstrate Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Benefits and Dividends for Local Communities” Clima East Pilot Project (2013-2017);
BCPR-UNDP “Mitigation of Climate Change Risks of Rural Communities Through Improved Local Development Planning” CRM- Climate Risk Management” Project, funded by the Government of Sweden (2013-2015);
BCPR-UNDP “Disaster Risk Reduction and Prevention” Project, funded by the Government of Sweden (2011-2013);
Russian-UNDP Trust Fund for Development “Increase Resilience of Armenia to Climate Change through Modernization of Armenia's Hydrometeorological Service” Project, (2019-2020);
Russia-UNDP Trust Fund for Development “Addressing Climate Change Impact through Enhanced Capacity for Wildfires Management in Armenia” Project, (2017-2020);
Russia-UNDP Trust Fund for Development “Integrated Support to Rural Development: Building Resilient Communities” Project (2015-2020);
EU- WWF “Transformation of Forest Plantations in the Southern Caucasus to Increase their Resilience to the Impacts of Climate Change” Project (2011-2015);
European Commission Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department “Disaster Risk Reduction in Armenia” Project, implemented by Save the Children, UNICEF, Oxfam and the Armenian Red Cross Society (ARCS), (2014-2015);
GEF “Generate global environmental benefits through environmental education and raising awareness of stakeholders” Project (2015-2019);
GEF-UNDP “Mainstreaming Sustainable Land and Forest Management in Mountain Landscapes of North-Eastern Armenia” Project (2016-2020);
EU funded “Green Agriculture Initiative in Armenia” Project (2019-2022);
EU funded “The European Neighbourhood Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development” (ENPARD) Project (2015-2018);
USAID “Advanced Science and Partnerships for Integrated Resource Development” (ASPIRED) Project (2015-2020);
GIZ “Management of natural resources and safeguarding of ecosystem services for sustainable rural development in the South Caucasus” (ECOserve) Project (2018-2021).
Contingency measures, e.g. through risk financing with regional risk pooling, insurance facilities and bonds, and through social protection measures, etc.
German KfW Bank in collaboration with the Government of Armenia financed introduction and piloting of insurance mechanisms for agricultural losses and damages in three regions of Armenia.
Disaster risk reduction focused strategies and measures through activities under the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, contingency and trust funds, disaster legislation, etc.:
In 2015, Armenia joined the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, and accordingly, the National Disaster Risk Management Strategy and Action Plan was developed and adopted by the Government of Armenia on April 6, 2017 http://www.mes.am/files/legislation/477.doc
Transformative actions (which could include any such actions already mentioned above):
Scaling-up agricultural insurance mechanisms for the whole territory of Armenia;
Introducing property insurance mechanisms against climate change risks;
Strengthening weather forecasting and introducing early warning system for farmers.
Yes. Losses and damages in the agricultural sector of Armenia are reported to the UNFCCC in the framework of Armenia’s Fourth National Communication on Climate Change (2020).
Collection and management of data and information (including databases, spatial data, systematic observations, establishing baselines, etc):
Use of space technologies in systematic observations and geospatial analyses.
Establishment of a baseline on non-economic and social loss and damage, as well as regarding culture, territory, indigenous knowledge systems, ecosystem services.
Development of databases and information services to support risk profiling and risk assessment of a variety of timeframes by different actors and stakeholders in their decision-processes.
Analyses of data and information(including climate change projections, impact analyses, hazard mapping, etc):
Development of local to national climate change scenarios and production of projections of climate risk.
Conduct of pilot loss and damage assessments for certain key agricultural commodities which are vulnerable to climate change, such as rice, aquaculture, and fruits.
Construction of multivariate impacts and loss databases to support assessments and reporting including through the use of bigdata methods.
Design of shared database systems to support different ministries and other stakeholders in the country including data collection, storage and sharing protocols and policies.
Quantitative assessment of risk for important systems to inform decision-making, in particular, selection of risk management approaches.
Costing of impacts in the present as well as for projected impacts for use in costs-benefit analyses to appraise options.
Methods for automated and semi-automated inventorying of infrastructure and assets such as involving geospatial technologies and artificial intelligence.
Estimation and outreach on future climate change risks to inform investor decisions.
Development of standardized set of risk assessment guidelines for community/subnational level to prepare and maintain inventories of at-risk assets.
Design and implementation of projects on Loss and Damage:
Setting up cross-ministerial/sectoral coordination mechanism for the dissemination and linking warnings with early action, and the deployment of emergency assistance for communities.
Linking national systematic observations and monitoring to regional and global efforts (for relevant variables, hazards and systems).
Design of proposals and access to financing for climate information services and early warning systems under the GCF and other funding channels.
Optimal design of sustainable public works (drainage, transportation and other critical and protective infrastructure).
Optimizing land use based on available resources (e.g. water resources, energy, etc).
Optimizing financing between different measures to address risk comprehensively/trade-off analyses in deciding on balance between investment in preemptive measures and measures to address residual risk.
Protection of cultural heritage and traditional knowledge.
Sustainable landscape management including nature-based solutions.
Financial instruments (such as insurance, risk pooling, contingency funds, etc):
Design of combinations of appropriate risk finance tools and instruments applicable to a specific country context and vulnerable groups.
Development and deployment of forecast-based finance instruments to minimize potential losses to productive systems.
Design and financing of social protection measures.
Development of different insurance mechanisms.
Design of national trust/contingency/recovery funds.
Development of national finance instruments (bonds, etc).
Development of curriculum on various relevant aspects of climate change and loss and damage.