CL6-2026-02-COMMUNITIES-01 – Rural Competitiveness (Partner Offer)

CCD NGO seeks to join a consortium under CL6-2026-02-COMMUNITIES-01 to contribute its practical experience in rural development, community engagement and innovation-driven capacity-building. We work directly in Armenia’s rural and border regions, providing strong field access, trusted local networks, and implementation capacity across 19 settlements of the Noyemberyan area.

Our organisation leads the multi-year “Smart Noyemberyan” initiative, which establishes community innovation labs, youth skills hubs, agritech pilots and entrepreneurship support programmes. This gives us relevant experience for co-developing and piloting rural competitiveness models, community-based innovation actions, and capacity-building approaches aligned with this topic’s objectives.

For this topic, CCD NGO can:
• provide rural pilot sites for testing solutions
• ensure stakeholder mobilisation and participatory co-creation
• coordinate community-level implementation and data collection
• support dissemination, local outreach and adoption of results

We are looking for partners experienced in rural innovation, socio-economic analysis, policy design, digital tools for communities, agritech, or living-lab methodologies. CCD NGO will contribute as an implementation partner with strong local presence and field-tested methods for improving rural competitiveness and resilience.