Meeting of the National Assembly-Civil Society Cooperation Platform (December)
On December 4, an online meeting of the National Assembly-Civil Society Cooperation Platform was held. The topic of the meeting was Women and the Humanitarian Crisis in Armenia: Challenges of the War and Pandemic.
The goal of the meeting was to discuss the humanitarian crisis problems resulting from the war erupted in Artsakh on the 27th of September 2020, as well as the problems caused by COVID 19 pandemic and ways of and recommendations for overcoming the consequences with participation of civil society organizations, National Assembly MPs and representatives of the government.
At the meeting were also presented the problems women face as a consequence of the humanitarian crisis and their role in overcoming these problems.
Civil society representatives who were participating at the meeting voiced those main gaps and problems that they confront while implementing programs and initiatives aimed at overcoming the humanitarian crisis. The Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Anna Zhamakochyan, presented the support projects and the steps implemented in overcoming the problems by the government and responded to the questions on behalf of the ministry.
