Trade Promotion and Quality Infrastructure

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The Trade Promotion and Quality Infrastructure Project for Armenia is designed to provide adequate incentives to ensure improved effectiveness of the government in delivering trade promotion and quality infrastructure services to firms. The Project is comprised of four components: (i) Component 1: Improving the effectiveness of the trade promotion and quality system of the country (results-based financing - RBF), (ii) Component 2: Promoting investment and exports, (iii) Component 3: Modernizing the national quality infrastructure, and (iv) Component 4: Project management and monitoring and evaluation. The project is designed with a results-focused component (Component 1) to be complemented by the investments financed through Components 2 and 3 of the project and other sources including the government and donor funds outside the project. By combining the RBF component with the traditional investment components, the project is designed to ensure the critical institutional strengthening needed to maximize the effectiveness of the investments takes place.