Examples of innovative partnerships included:

11 Armenian private companies signed a joint statement of CEOs and became full members of UN Women/Global Compact Women Empowerment Principles (WEPs) network. The signatory private companies will act as changes agents promoting WEPs practices among business community and public at large: 

© Irina Chaltikyan's Facebook account
“.…joining the WEPs triggered new discoveries and we came up with actions towards practical empowerment of women while the law entitles women to continue receiving their usual salary for a limited period of maternity leave, we came up with a scheme allowing women to continue receiving their usual salary beyond that period, by working from home.”
Irina Chaltikyan, Deputy CEO of McCann, speaking at the UN ThinkEQUAL signature discussions

The partnership will result in e-learning platform for raising financial literacy levels within different groups of population. 

- WFP came up with inclusive finance mechanism to make solar stations available to small businesses in partnership with the private sector. The solution aims to bring together the financial sector, the private sector and the public sector to reach 3,000 individuals from 750 households by investing in 250 small businesses.

- In 2021, the SDG Lab grew its wide range of partnerships with Innovation Hubs, leading organizations in digital space. New partnerships were established at the international level with teams that are moving the frontiers in their industries, including Behavioral Insights Team, Burning Glass Technologies, SweRoad, Oslo Governance Center, Global Data Barometer, and DeepPavlov.

- UNDP energy efficiency programming requirements attracted state co-funding, affecting, the GoA subvention scheme in communities to allow for state funding of energy efficient buildings, retrofits. Now the retrofitting is partially covered by the state budget, while local communities themselves benefit from the 10% bonus from GoA for implementing energy-efficient retrofit projects.

Examples of north-south, south-south and/or triangular partnerships include:

- From Armenia to Tanzania: UNDP ImpactAim AgriTech Accelerator, designed to support science and technology-backed ventures,

offers Agrosoko, a Tanzanian start-up, solutions to tackle challenges in the agricultural sector and bridge the gap between African farmers and large offtake buyers.

- Knowledge transfer between Belarus and Armenia experts on new methods for conducting population and housing censuses and improve the quality of migration statistics, facilitated by UNECE.

- From Armenia to Georgia, Iraq and beyond. “We are in the right place at the right time. We have a solution to the problem of violence that is increasing. We need to move quickly to make sure that it is available in as many countries as possible,” says social entrepreneur Mariam Torosyan, who developed the “Safe YOU” mobile solution shielding women against domestic violence. The application is already saving lives in Georgia, with over 5000 active users. With UNFPA’s support, the application is being translated into Arabic and Kurdish to prepare it for the launch in Iraq; while negotiations are underway between Safe YOU and several governmental and non-governmental organizations in the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa.

UNCT in Armenia has also been strengthening interagency cooperation, mobilizing funds increasingly under overall RCO coordination, including:

Interagency Cooperation in the Mobilization of Funds

Table 5. Interagency Cooperation in the Mobilization of Funds

© Mariam Torosyan
“We are in the right place at the right time. We have a solution to the problem of violence that is increasing. We need to move quickly to make sure that it is available in as many countries as possible.”
Mariam Torosyan, social entrepreneur