The Central Project Management Agency (CPMA) launches a two-year project to support Armenia in the areas of law enforcement and security. The project will transfer good practices of Lithuanian and Latvian law enforcement institutions to Armenia.
Over the past decades, Lithuania has significantly reorganised and modernised the management of the Ministry of the Interior and all institutions responsible for public security. The essence of the changes that have been implemented and are currently underway is to respond to the public’s expectations for public security and to ensure that the activities of the institutions are focused on the prevention of existing and anticipated threats to public security and on the appropriate response and concrete actions, and that the resources allocated by the state to this area are managed in a transparent and efficient manner.
“The fact that these changes are right and necessary is demonstrated by the strong increase in the confidence of the Lithuanian residents in the activities of authorities responsible for public security. I believe that the experience transferred by Lithuanian and Latvian authorities will be really valuable and will help to strengthen Armenia’s public security system more quickly and efficiently,” says Tomas Bikmanas, Senior Adviser at the International Cooperation Board, Lithuanian Police Department, and project team leader.
The project will ensure that the newly established Ministry of the Interior in Armenia operates properly, implements the police reform, modernises the state border management services and migration flows, and that public confidence in the Ministry’s policies grows.
The project will be implemented by the CPMA in cooperation with the Latvian Police. The project is funded by the EU with a contribution of EUR 2 million, with an additional Lithuanian contribution of EUR 222,223.
The CPMA became eligible to implement EU indirect management programs and projects in 2009, having met the standards set by the European Commission. CPMA was the first agency in the Baltic States to receive the Pillar Assessment accreditation required for such project implementation. CPMA is currently successfully implementing 12 indirect management projects in Ukraine, Belarus, the Western Balkans and Turkey, Serbia, Moldova, Angola and other countries.
