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The Government of the Republic of Armenia expresses its gratitude to all those who have taken part in putting together the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. Particular thanks are due to:
(i) Members of the PRSP Coordination Board headed by the Minister of Finance and Economy, Vardan Khachatryan;
(ii) Members of the PRSP Coordination Working Group headed by the Deputy Minister of Finance and Economy, Tigran Khachatryan (Head of the Group) and the First Deputy Minister of Social Security, Ashot Yesayan (Deputy Head of the Group);
(iii) All the structural units of public authorities and their specialists who have taken part in development of the PRSP;
(iv) The World Bank, IMF, UNDP, DFID, Government of the Netherlands, Government of Germany for technical and financial support in various stages of the development of the PRSP. The Government is also indebted to other international organizations which provided support to the process (The European Union, European Council and USAID) and the governments of many countries involved in the process through contributing professional knowledge and skills of their staff and international experts and thus supporting improvement of the draft PRSP;
(v) NGOs, private sector representatives, local governments, political parties and individual specialists, members of the National Assembly for participation in various phases of PRSP preparation;
(vi) "Human Rights and Democracy Institute" NGO, Information and Analytical Center of the Government of Armenia and their staff for public awareness building and publicity arrangements;
The Government of Armenia expresses its special gratitude to local experts involved in the PRSP's development for investing their highly professional knowledge and experience, including:
(i) Five expert groups responsible for PRSP development: the Economic Strategy expert group headed by Doctor of Economics Vardan Bostanjyan; the Poverty Evaluation and Analyses expert group, headed by PhD Mathematics Ashot Kakosyan; the Methodology expert group headed by Doctor of Philosophy Alexander Manasyan; the Social Strategy expert group, headed by PhD History Hranush Kharatyan; and Public Administration, Participatory Process and Monitoring expert group, headed by PhD Economics Armen Khudaverdyan;
(ii) Doctor of Economics Armenak Darbinyan (Director of the Economic Research Institute of the Ministry of Finance and Economy) responsible for the daily management of the PRSP process; Doctor of Philosophy Liudmila Harutunyan responsible for the Methodology Development Group; Susanna Hairapetyan, responsible for the work of Social Strategy Development Group; Astghik Mirzakhanyan, responsible for the works of the Public Administration, Participation and Monitoring Group; Hrachya Petrosyan, responsible for the works of the Poverty Evaluation and Analysis Group; and Larisa Alaverdyan, responsible for ensuring participatory process;
(iii) Vahram Avanesyan, Armen Yeghiazaryan, PhD and Levon Barkhudaryan, PhD, experts of AVAG Solutions Ltd, responsible for the compilation of comments and recommendations on the draft PRSP and the final preparation of the document, as well as for harmonization and coordination of the major provisions of the PRSP and the 2003-2005 MTEF.
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