Total area is 186 218 square meterTotal population is 17.1 million

Among them: Azerbaijan - 9.3 million, Capital Baku, Unitary presidential republicGeorgia – 4.3 million, Capital Tbilisi, Unitary semi-presidential republicArmenia – 3.1 million, Capital Yerevan, Presidential republic

Breakaway regions:Abkhazia - 250 000, Capital Sokhum/iNagorni karabakh - 150 000, Capital Stepanakert/Khankendi Languages: Armenian, Azerbaijani, Russian and Georgian Ethnics: Azeri, Armenians, Georgians, Russians, Ukrainians, Assyrians,

Greeks, Kurds, OssetiansReligions: Islam, Christianity, Judaism etc

CARE International in the Caucasus • CARE International has been working in the Caucasus since the early 1990s when armed conflicts broke out in the region and resulted in vast human suffering.• Since 1995 CARE Caucasus has shifted its focus from emergency relief to pro-poor economic development.• Starting from 2009 to better coordinate its activities to achieve a meaningful and sustainable impact on people’s lives CIC moved from project to program approach; • There are four domains of intervention which relate to the four main underlying causes of poverty that have been identified by CARE:• governance• participation and civil society • conflict prevention and security• market linkages and market support

CIC’s new business modelThe strategic level model of how CARE will do its work in the Caucasus

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