러시아ㆍ유라시아

Armenia is classified as a developing country and upper-middle income economy and has a restricted financial capacity to build and maintain a large and complex fire and rescue service comparable with the fire and rescue service maintained in the more developed countries of similar size. In addition, the urbanization patterns, industry developments and demographic processes do not economically justify the need of a large and complex fire and rescue service. The objective of the study is to support the World Bank and the Armenian government in developing a service optimization plan for the fire/rescue and emergency response facilities in Armenia. This will be accomplished by performing a high-level structural and functionality assessments of all facilities, followed by a more detailed study of selected stations. The project has three stages with three main technical deliverables. This report is the third and last technical deliverable for this project and summarizes the approach used to identify suitable modernization programmes at microlevel (individual fire/rescue stations /FRS/) and macrolevel (regional and national programmes) and the main results.