ArmInfo. Deputy Chairperson of the RA National Assembly Committee on European Integration Meri Galstyan received representatives of the Prime Minister's Office and the Deputy Prime Minister's Office on April 15.
As reported by the RA NA press service, issues of joint monitoring and strategic communication in the implementation of the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between Armenia and the European Union were discussed during the meeting.
Meri Galstyan noted that within the framework of the Agreement, as well as the EU-Armenia partnership, a number of key reforms and programs are being implemented in the country, within the framework of which there is a need to introduce public communication, information and control mechanisms. The MP noted that a lot of work needs to be done in this direction, based on the mechanism of correct information of the public as the main beneficiary of these reforms.
The meeting participants emphasized that the public communications strategy should be implemented at all levels of the public administration system. In this regard, Angela Kzhdryan, Head of the Strategic Communications and Participatory Governance Reform Program of the Prime Minister's Office, presented the current work of the CEPA Communication Center, highlighting the process of developing and publishing targeted information messages for each sector of the agreement, the development of a communication strategy for the implementation of the agreement, which is expected to be completed this year.
As for the joint monitoring of the implementation of the agreement, Astghik Hayrapetyan, Chief Specialist of the Cooperation and Reforms Department of the Office of Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan, stressed the importance of forming a digital monitoring platform, especially with the coordination of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, which is still at the preliminary stage. In the near future, it is planned to develop and discuss with interested departments, including the National Assembly, a technical project of the digital platform, which will allow each citizen to receive clear and comprehensive information in real time on the progress of the agreement implementation by sectors with qualitative and numerical indicators.
The importance of developing institutional capacity and additional expert support, as well as the role of effective cooperation between the NA and the government in the implementation of the agreement were emphasized.
