Varuzhan Hoktanyan, Executive Director and Sargis Lalayan, Legal Assistant of Transparency International Anti-corruption Center participated in "Civil Control over Armed Forces" training on military budget monitoring, conducted in Vanadzor from March 22 to 26, 2010. The training was organized by Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor Office. Presentations by experts in the field were accompanied with practical sessions and role-playing exercises.

Among the subjects the training course addressed were the concept for and the subject, methods and instruments applied within the areas of civil control and democratic oversight over the armed forces, program-based defense resource management, defense programs development, defense budget cost calculation and evaluation, accountability and transparency of defense activities and defense budgets, auditing the expense of the armed forces, etc. Upon completion of the training course, the trainees were issued certificates.