The Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction project (ALTER project) has been designed in the framework of DG ECHO external line call. These types of projects have as main goal to address cooperation between EU and third party countries. Main idea is best practices transfer from EU to external neighboring country. In ALTER project that selected country is Armenia. The project has as main objective to create public private partnerships to increase resilience in areas of Armenia that face risks from floods originating in earthquakes. Methods, tools, know how and experience from Greece, Bulgaria and Cyprus have been shared with Armenian partners. The partnership of the Armenian government and local stakeholders gave an opportunity to the consortia to work on larger scale at the selected test areas. The project is focused on three pilot areas in Armenia where dams and other activities such as mining processes are presenting the risks to local communities. The areas are: Akhtala and Teghut areas of Lori Marz along the Shamlugh river; the Vorotan Cascade and its associated dams in the Syunik region; and the Voghji river basin of Syunik region. In the paper will be presented information …