📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: SDA - Strategic Development Agency
Country: Armenia Contract type: Standardvertrag Project start: 01.09.2025 Funding amount: € 2.100.000,00 End: 30.04.2029
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
The project's intended impact is: Sustainable livestock management practices and improved livelihoods in Armenia through improved animal migration, pedigree farming, reproductive technologies, and efficient slaughterhouse/milk processing.
Expected results
- Current livestock migration patterns and challenges across different regions of Armenia assessed.
- Farmers/pasture users, local community and government agency representatives improved/upgraded knowledge and skills for livestock migration and pasture management practices.
- Improved infrastructure, pasture conditions, and livestock tracking along designated migration routes.
- Enhanced collaboration and partnership capacities among key stakeholders, including government agencies, veterinarians, and artificial insemination technicians, facilitating the effective implementation of the state artificial insemination program.
- Established new facilities or upgrade existing ones for artificial insemination and other reproductive technologies.
- Enhanced dialogue and collaboration capacities among key stakeholders, including State Food Safety Service (SFSS), Ministry of Economy, slaughterhouses, farmers, facilitating the effective cooperation.
- SMEs (slaughterhouses and dairy processors) expanded their business operations, invested in infrastructure upgrades, and implemented quality assurance systems to improve hygiene, safety, and operational efficiency.
Target group / Beneficiaries
The proposed project will cover seven marzes of Armenia, namely Syunik, Vayots Dzor, Gegharkunik, Shirak, Ararat, Armavir, and Aragatsotn. It will focus on 40 selected rural settlements. Target group and beneficiaries of the project are rural inhabitants of these rural settlements involved in meat and milk value chains as producer farmers, entrepreneurs or employees. The total number of end beneficiaries is 20,000 livestock (from 7,800 farming households) farm-ers/producers (30% female). Indirect Beneficiaries of the project are the population of project target area (totaling nearly 40,000 people of which 50 % women).
Activities
Assessing current livestock migration patterns and challenges across differ-ent regions of Armenia. Developing and implementing measures to enhance migration routes, includ-ing infrastructure development and livestock tracking systems in Syunik.
Establishing partnerships and collaborations with relevant government agencies responsible for implementing the state artificial insemination program. Establishing new facilities or upgrade existing ones for artificial insemination and other reproductive technologies. Developing outreach materials, training for veterinarians and technicians on advanced reproductive techniques.
Investing in infrastructure upgrades
