The project “Promoting Green Deal Readiness in the Eastern Partnership Countries (PROGRESS) Armenia” is supporting to the "Center for agricultural research and certification" ("CARC") State Non-Commercial Organization (SNCO) under the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Armenia.

The support includes the provision of equipment necessary for the certification of planting material, as well as exchange of experience and capacity building. The center was provided with equipment for printing certificates and labels, and the director of center participated in a regional visit to Italy, where best practices for producing planting materials were studied. The knowledge gained was transferred to the employees of the CARC.

The project is implemented on behalf of the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the Federal Government of Germany. Within the Federal Government, the IKI is anchored in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN). Selected project is also the responsibility of the Federal Foreign Office (AA). PROGRESS is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, as the lead agency, in partnership with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Regional Environmental Centre for the Caucasus (REC), the European Business Association (EBA) Moldova and the Institute for Economics and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (IEF).