Environmental Project Implementation Unit, State Agency of the Ministry of Nature Protection, Armenia

The Environmental Project Implementation Unit of the State Agency of the Ministry of Nature Protection of the Republic of Armenia (EPIU) is a national entity established by the government of the Republic of Armenia with the main objective of ensuring efficient implementation of the governmental environmental sector projects. The main spheres of the EPIU’s activities include implementing projects/programmes by the Ministry of Nature Protection of and territorial administration bodies in environmental sector, including implementation of state-wide sector-based projects on the sustainable usage of natural resources, lithosphere, soil, water, atmosphere, fauna and flora, and the preservation of specially protected areas, as well as those developed using funding from international financial organisations.