The focus of the U.S. Government-funded Millennium Challenge Account Armenia Program (MCA-Armenia) is rehabilitation of Armenia’s vital irrigation infrastructure complemented with extensive technical and financial assistance to rural farmers and to the government irrigation entities that support them. In addition to these programmatic activities MCA-Armenia emphasizes such aspects of the Program as quality of construction and environmentally sound practices.
On December 3-4 a Workshop on Quality Control, Health and Safety, Environmental and Social Aspects of MCA-Armenia’s Irrigated Agriculture Project is held in Yerevan under the MCA-Armenia Program.
During Day 1 the Construction Supervisor/Project Manager Consultant presented its activities targeted at quality control, and health and safety aspects of construction works, sharing lessons learnt and combining the presentations with practical demonstrations. Some topics of interest during this part of the workshop included factory tests of imported pumps, use of geomembranes in rehabilitation of main canals or use of rubbers gaskets in gravity and tertiary systems. During Day 2 of the Workshop the Environmental and Social Assessment and Oversight Consultant presented a summary report of its annual activities, which included results of environmental/social oversight and monitoring.
Separate presentations focused on such important issues as guidelines for handling asbestos containing materials or water quality monitoring under Ararat Valley Drainage Program. and highlighted such important issues as guidelines for handling asbestos containing materials or water quality monitoring under Ararat Valley Drainage Program.
MCA-Armenia emphasizes the importance of the issues discussed during the workshop not only throughout the Program implementation, but also as a way of introducing best international experience of construction quality and environmentally sound practices to Armenia.
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