Caucasus Research Resource Centers - Armenia Yerevan, Armenia 2009

What is CRRC ? A regional network of resource and training centers in Baku, Tbilisi and Yerevan. Partnership between the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Eurasia Partnership Foundation, and local universities Stable opportunities for integrated research, training and collaboration for researchers and policy practitioners in Social Sciences, particularly in Economics, Sociology, and Demography. 2 | CRRC-Armenia, August 2009

What is CRRC ? A regional network of resource and training centers in Baku, Tbilisi and Yerevan. Partnership between the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Eurasia Partnership Foundation, and local universities Stable opportunities for integrated research, training and collaboration for researchers and policy practitioners in Social Sciences, particularly in Economics, Sociology, and Demography. 3 | CRRC-Armenia, August 2009

What does CRRC try to achieve? OVERALL GOAL: Strengthen social science research and public policy analysis in the South Caucasus. Outcomes: 1.Increasing the accessibility of high-quality up-to-date research resources 2.Strengthening domestic capacity in social sciences 3.Increasing the dialogue and collaboration between social science researchers and policy practitioners. 4 | CRRC-Armenia, August 2009

What does CRRC offer? IT Laboratory/ Library Data Initiative CRRC Publication Fellowships Methodological Trainings and Lecture Series Conferences, Roundtables and Networking

CRRC IT Lab The IT Laboratory is equipped with 8 cutting edge desktop workstations. The Lab offers high speed Internet, together with statistical software packages such as E-views, SPSS, STATA, CSPro, MathLab, Statistica.

CRRC Library CRRC offers free access to libraries that house a growing number of seminal works and current journals and periodicals in the social sciences. The library provides access to online databases such as JSTOR, EBSCO Host, Project Muse, World Bank databases.

CRRC Data Initiative The CRRC Data Initiative (DI) is a cross-border effort initiated by CRRC from 2004 to collect data annually on a wide variety of social, political and economic indicators in the South Caucasus region. Focused on Demography, Education, Employment, Migration, Health, Social Institutions, Social Capital, Politics, Crime, and Economic Condition 8 | CRRC-Armenia, August 2009

CRRC Data Initiative While the survey in 2004 was carried out only in the capitals of the SC countries, the survey of 2005 encompassed also an internal region in each country, and, since 2006 the survey had been carried out in all regions of the mentioned countries, in both urban and rural areas. 9 | CRRC-Armenia, August 2009

Visit Data Initiative Project to find: 1.Survey datasets (in SPSS format) 2.Questionnaires and show cards Survey methodology document 3.SPSS online crash course CRRC Data Initiative 10| CRRC-Armenia, August 2009

CRRC Publication Fellowships To support outstanding researchers interested in pursuing original policy-oriented research, in 2004, CRRC launched a Fellowship Program. CRRC gives out grants to fellows to analyze policy relevant issues in economics, sociology, demography and other social science related fields. Fellows often use data gathered under the CRRC Data Initiative as well as new and existing data sources to complete their research.CRRC Data Initiative Grantees are selected through a competitive process of both peer review and a selection committee of leading practitioners and researchers. 11 | CRRC-Armenia, August 2009

Methodological Trainings and Lecture Series CRRC organizes training courses, seminars and lectures on a variety of social science topics, attracting both local and foreign experts as speakers or trainers, locally and regionally. The CRRC methodological trainings focus on modernizing the skill sets of local researchers and providing hands-on opportunities in using relevant statistical software packages. These programs help strengthen research production and promote direct examination of what is really happening in today’s economic and social transformation in the South Caucasus. 12 | CRRC-Armenia, August 2009

Conferences, Roundtables and Networking CRRC draws researchers, public administrators, and other policy practitioners from all three South Caucasus countries to discuss and debate on key public policy issues in the region and cross-border trends in policy formation, encouraging interdisciplinary dialogue among researchers and practitioners. The center provides information and educational assistance to emerging public policy institutes, and providing a variety of networking opportunities for researchers and policy practitioners. 13 | CRRC-Armenia, August 2009