The main topic of the 2009 NHDR is migration, which is also the theme of the 2009 Global HDR. This demonstrates the importance of the subject matter for the global and national governance and human development. It is obvious that the current global crisis is setting a new thinking about the role of migration in development, the necessity of more flexible mechanisms of migration management, and the role of governments in this management. For Armenia these problems seem to be of particular acuteness as the crisis has badly hit the country.

The following manual has been designed in the context of developing the system of local self-governance to support the processes of budgeting, strategic planning in the field, ensuring of participation, assessment of cost-effectiveness of community budgeted costs and the verification and application of accountability and addressability components in the community budget which will be used to draft and implement community budgets and to evaluate these budgets according to the performance budgeting methodology.