USAID Boosts Azerbaijan’s Economic Research Capacity
The USAID-supported Public Investment Policy (PIP) Project is a technical assistance project which helps the Government of Azerbaijan to develop its capacity in long and medium term investment planning and programming. To significantly contribute to the institutional capacity building in conducting specialized training on Integrated Project (Cost-Benefit) Analysis and economic research works, USAID has provided the Center of Economic Reforms (CER), the scientific-research branch of the Ministry of Economic Development, the state-of-art computer hardware, software and visual aid equipment in the amount of $16,000.
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| State-of-the-art computers are among the contributions USAID has made to help the Ministry of Economic Development strengthen its economic research function |
The computer equipment will further the CER’s institutional capacity for performing economic research and training functions more effectively. CER is the partner organization to the PIP Project in organizing and conducting multi-week training courses for the Azerbaijan public expenditure analysts. Over the past year, 171 senior executives and practitioners have participated in workshops and multi-week trainings on Integrated Project (Cost-Benefit) Analysis.
A ceremony marking the donation was attended by Scott Taylor, USAID Country Coordinator for Azerbaijan; Mete Durdag, PIP Project’s Chief of Party; Sevinj Hasanova, Deputy Minister of Economic Development; Namiq Tagiyev, CER Director, the training program participants, experts, and mass media representatives.
Speakers expressed their appreciation of the concrete results achieved as a result of the USAID-rendered technical assistance in terms of better economic policy planning, sectoral development programs formulations and public expenditure management in Azerbaijan.
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