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United Nations ECE/HBP/2017/Inf.5 Economic and Social Council Distr.: General 19 October 2017 English Only Economic Commission for Europe Committee on Housing and Land Management Seventy-eighth session Geneva, 8-10 November 2017 Item 3(c) of the provisional agenda Review of the implementation of the programme of work 2016-2017 Sustainable urban development The Smart Sustainable City Profile of Goris, Armenia Note by the Secretariat Summary 1. In 2014, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe received the request from the State Urban Development Committee of Armenia to elaborate a Smart Sustainable City Profile for the city of Goris by using the UNECE/ITU Smart Sustainable Cities Indicators. 2. In February 2015 the research mission to Goris took place. The secretariat elaborated the Smart Sustainable City Profile of Goris, Armenia, in cooperation with the State Urban Development Committee of Armenia, the municipality of Goris, UNDP Armenia, the Regional Environmental Centre for Caucasus Armenia Office, Environment Agency Austria and other partners. The work mainly was carried out thanks to the in kind contributions of the partners and staff in the secretariat. 3. During the capacity building workshop in Yerevan and Goris in April 2015, the preliminary results of the Profile were presented. The full Profile was finally launched in Yerevan on 11 September 2017 and will be published as an official publication soon. 4. This information document provides the full Profile for Goris. The Committee is invited to take note. 1 SMART SUSTAINABLE CITY PROFILE OF GORIS, ARMENIA YEREVAN-GORIS-GENEVA, 2017 2 PREFACE This smart sustainable city profile of the city of Goris, Republic of Armenia, has been produced under the framework of the project “United Smart Cities” 1 , coordinated by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The profile for the City of Goris was requested by the State Urban Development Committee. This activity was led by the Housing and Land Management Unit of the UNECE Division of Forests, Land and Housing. It started with a fact-finding mission in February 2015, and was completed in 2017. The project implementation was supported by financial and in-kind resources of the UNECE, the State Urban Development Committee of Armenia, the Regional Environmental Centre for Armenia, the Environment Agency Austria, the Organization of International Economic Relations (OiER), the United Nations Development Programme’s office in Armenia, and the Asian Development Bank. In-kind contribution was also provided by national and local experts. The successful conclusion of the profile would not have been possible without this generous support. This is the first profile on smart sustainable cities in the UNECE region; however, in past years, similar studies on cities have been undertaken and published by the UNECE. These included reports on the Implementation of Human Settlements Policies on Urban Renewal and Housing Modernization for Vienna (1998), Bratislava (1999), Budapest (2000) and Ljubljana (2000). All these studies are available online at www.unece.org/housing/publications.html. 1 More information is available online at http://www.unece.org/housing/smartcities.html, and in Annex I. 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS The following international experts provided inputs in their below-mentioned areas of expertise. Although this mainly involved drafting one specific chapter, parts of their work also contributed to other chapters for the purposes of clarity. We also acknowledge the participation of Mr. Alexander Storch and Mr. Wolfgang Dolezal (Environment Agency Austria) and Mr. Didier Vancutsem (ISOCARP) in the development of this Profile. The final publication should, therefore, be considered as the result of a joint effort. Gulnara Roll (UNECE) Team leader Domenica Carriero (UNECE) Project coordinator; Introduction, Part III: Society and culture; and Annexes Gundula Prokop (Environment Agency Austria) Part III: Economy, Environment; Part V: Summary of recommendations Vicenç Pedret-Cuscó (PPP Center for Cities, Part IV: Financial mechanisms Spain) NATIONAL EXPERTS Nune Harutyunyan Director, Regional Environmental Center for Caucasus/RECC Garegin Parsyan Chief architect, Goris municipality Arsen Karapatyan “Improving Energy Efficiency in Buildings” Project Manager, UNDP Dshkhuhi Sahakyan Regional Environmental Center for Caucasus/RECC Nune Petrosyan “Armproject” Project Manager Donara Hakobjanyan State Statistical Agency, Syuniq regional service branch 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS………………………………………………………………………………………………..E RROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. 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