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Project Title:	Epress.am
Project Region:	Eurasia
Project Country:	Armenia
Project Focus:	Freedom of Information
Description:	To provide analysis of current events and systemic issues in Armenia. The organization will produce daily news and analytical coverage of political and human rights topics. The grantee will provide independent analysis of key political developments, reforms, and challenges facing the government. It will also report on subjects that often go unreported or that are subjects of disinformation by mainstream media.

Year: 2020
Award Amount: $85,165

Project Title:	Everything is Political
Project Region:	Eurasia
Project Country:	Armenia
Project Focus:	Democratic Ideas and Values
Description:	To foster productive discussions between civil society and government officials, and to raise public awareness of the political nature of reforms in Armenia. The organization will conduct a series of off the record discussions with representatives of civil society and the government, focusing on ongoing reform processes, and record a podcast series with invited experts to discuss the political processes underlying reforms.

Year: 2020
Award Amount: $44,280

Project Title:	Half-Life of Independence
Project Region:	Eurasia
Project Country:	Armenia
Project Focus:	Democratic Ideas and Values
Description:	To promote understanding of Armenia's totalitarian past in the late Soviet Union, and to promote discussion of Armenia's continued democratic development. As part of the project, the organization will produce 16 15-minute long films, featuring interviews with Armenians who lived half their lives in the Soviet Union, and half in independent Armenia. The films will be broadcast online, on television and at discussions in the three largest cities in the country.

Year: 2020
Award Amount: $34,140

Project Title:	Improving Government Communications
Project Region:	Eurasia
Project Country:	Armenia
Project Focus:	Strengthening Political Institutions
Description:	To improve the capacity of the Armenian government to communicate about their reform efforts, particularly in the area of human rights and public health, and to counter common disinformation myths. The partner will create a package of recommendations for government officials on messaging and media consumption patterns, which will be shared in a series of meetings with decision-makers online and, pandemic circumstances permitting, at a series of roundtables.

Year: 2020
Award Amount: $68,120

Project Title:	Increasing Oversight of the Security Services
Project Region:	Eurasia
Project Country:	Armenia
Project Focus:	Accountability and Governance
Description:	To promote increased oversight of the Armenian National Security Service. The organization will engage civil society and independent experts in formulating policy recommendations to create mechanisms for greater oversight of the intelligence services. It will present its research to government stakeholders and advocate for implementation of its recommendations by the National Assembly and government agencies.

Year: 2020
Award Amount: $48,979

Project Title:	Infocom News Aggregator
Project Region:	Eurasia
Project Country:	Armenia
Project Focus:	Freedom of Information
Description:	To operate a news aggregator that will disseminate or summarize Armenian news articles on the organization's website and across multiple social platforms in Armenian, Russian, and English. The organization will create online profiles for Armenian individuals and political bodies that will be linked to news stories to provide greater context. The organization will produce original content that will include fact checking, in-depth investigations, and analytical articles on contemporary politics in Armenia.

Year: 2020
Award Amount: $59,671

Project Title:	Journalist Trainings
Project Region:	Eurasia
Project Country:	Armenia
Project Focus:	Freedom of Information
Description:	To increase the availability of information about current events and to train youth journalists. The organization will create news reports and weekly digests about current events, which will be posted to the organization's website civilnet.am and to its social media accounts. Young journalists will be trained and will participate in a professional fellowship with the organization's news studio.

Year: 2020
Award Amount: $57,123

Project Title:	Judicial Reform and Protection of Human Rights
Project Region:	Eurasia
Project Country:	Armenia
Project Focus:	Rule of Law
Description:	To monitor the state of judicial reform in Armenia and promote awareness of human rights violations. The grantee will prepare recommendations to inform the reform process. It will also produce an online interview program to raise awareness of human rights issues within the country and structural issues in the judiciary.

Year: 2020
Award Amount: $56,000

Project Title:	Online Political Talk Shows
Project Region:	Eurasia
Project Country:	Armenia
Project Focus:	Freedom of Information
Description:	To encourage public discussion of significant reform initiatives and to hold the Armenian government accountable for delivering on its reform promises. The organization will provide impartial, reliable coverage of the status of democratic reforms in Armenia on its online TV channel. It will foster constructive dialogue between experts to inform broader discussion of government policy.

Year: 2020
Award Amount: $49,817

Project Title:	Promoting Government Accountability
Project Region:	Eurasia
Project Country:	Armenia
Project Focus:	Accountability and Governance
Description:	To hold accountable corrupt officials and promote increased demand for continued anti-corruption reform and restitution in Armenia. The grantee will monitor instances of official misconduct, provide legal support to victims of crimes perpetrated by government officials, and create a weekly online TV program that discusses instances of corruption in Armenia. The organization will litigate ongoing corruption cases and initiate others, produce investigative reports, and host press conferences.

Year: 2020
Award Amount: $50,460

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