Goal: Enhanced individual and community resilience towards disasters through preparation, response and recovery

The overall goal of this strategic programming is to enhance preparedness of AC personnel, its beneficiaries and stakeholders through ongoing knowledge, capacity and resource enrichment with the aim of facing possible emergencies with enough knowledge and behavioral skills.

The program will aim at taking actions and measures at three levels: before, during and after possible disasters and emergencies.

Initiatives will be undertaken to raise resilience in communities and their public awareness, improve emergency behavioral skills, acquire necessary technical resources and capacities,

GOAL: Mechanisms of meeting social needs, integration of the elderly in community life and mechanisms of active ageing are ensured for the disadvantaged elderly that live in difficult conditions of life.

According to the data of the RA National Statistical Service, birth rate reduction and migration outflows have led to a situation when as of January 1, 2016, the working age population (16-62 age group) makes up 66.3% (2 995,1 million) of the total number of the RA  resident population. The population below working age (0-15 age group) is 20.8%, and the number of people aged 63 and over makes up 12.9% (387 659 people) of the total number of the resident population.

Goal: People with disabilities are empowered and enabling environment for inclusion is created

 Persons with disabilities especially children and their families are one of the vulnerable groups supported by the Armenian Caritas. Persons with disabilities and their whole families are often times separated and isolated from the rest of the society because they are seen as an embarrassment or weakness for the entire society. In many cases, one family member is given the responsibility of caring for the disabled individual. Another concern is that society members in general are not aware of or sensitive to the living conditions of disabled people.