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All results totalling $8,397,267
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Project Title: Democracy, Security, and Foreign Policy
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote informed public debate about Armenian foreign policy. The organization will produce analytical articles, host roundtable discussions, and conduct trainings designed to place issues of democracy and rule of law at the center of discourse about foreign policy in Armenia.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $45,036
Project Title: Armenian Times Newspaper
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To improve the quality and increase the availability of objective news and information in Armenia. The organization will expand and improve the quality of its website, Haykakan Zhamanak ("Armenian Times"), and publish a printed version of its daily newspaper, which is the country's most widely-read independent news source. The organization will enhance the website's layout and design, produce video reports, and expand its coverage of corruption, poverty, and regional issues.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $40,785
Project Title: Independent News Website
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To strengthen freedom of speech and editorial independence of the media in Armenia. The organization will maintain the daily news website, Hetq Online. Articles will be published in Armenian, Russian, and English and will focus on economics, politics, and the judiciary. Under this program, Hetq journalists will pay particular attention to producing analytical pieces that examine the recent constitutional referendum that converted Armenia from a presidential to a parliamentary system of government.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $48,480
Project Title: Providing Legal Aid to Conscripts
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To monitor human rights in Armenia and promote public understanding of conscripts' rights. The organization will provide legal aid to military conscripts, monitor court cases of soldiers, and conduct strategic litigation. The organization will also organize public debates, produce videos, and publish a monitoring report on conscripts' rights.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $38,773
Project Title: Promoting Armenian Civic Engagement
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To identify the challenges and opportunities facing democratization in Armenia. The organization will conduct research, produce policy papers, host public discussions, convene focus groups, and organize civic education trainings. Based on the findings of this work, the organization will formulate a communications strategy to define and defend democratic values and ideals in Armenia.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $37,328
Project Title: Public Debate on Foreign Policy
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote informed public debate on Armenian foreign policy. The organization will analyze Armenia's accession to the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), focusing on the under-discussed negative implications of the EEU on Armenia's democratic development and geopolitical security. The organization will research and produce articles and animated videos on ten thematic areas related to Armenia's accession to the EEU and host four three-day seminars with journalists and civil servants near Yerevan to increase awareness on the issue.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $57,000
Project Title: Protecting Journalists' Rights
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To monitor freedom of the press in Armenia. The organization will document violations of journalists' rights, provide free legal aid to media organizations, and conduct strategic litigation. The organization will publish its findings in four quarterly reports and organize a roundtable discussion at the conclusion of the project.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $36,666
Project Title: Supporting Political Pluralism and Effective Civil Society ahead of 2017 Parliamentary Elections
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To support political pluralism in Armenia and to strengthen links between political parties and citizens ahead of 2017 parliamentary elections, the organization will organize strategic planning sessions and follow-on trainings for Armenian party leaders, together with youth and women activists. The Institute will also provide organizational development support to a nonpartisan Armenian civil society organization.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $226,229
Project Title: Human Rights Monitoring and Advocacy
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To monitor human rights in Armenia and promote public understanding of human rights violations. The organization will provide legal aid, monitor court cases on human rights topics, and conduct strategic litigation. Together with its partners, the grantee will produce video discussions and short films on the court cases to raise awareness of human rights issues within the country.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $60,660
Project Title: Support for Journalists in Conflict
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Conflict Resolution
Description: To increase the capacity of journalists reporting on conflict in Armenia. The organization will maintain a press center, and conduct trainings on safety, journalistic ethics, and professional standards for journalists.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $35,059
Project Title: Promoting Youth Engagement in the Parliamentary Elections
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To promote civic participation in Armenia's electoral processes. The organization will conduct in-depth trainings on human rights with a group of young civic activists; organize a monitoring mission for the spring 2017 parliamentary elections; and create a network of youth activists. It will also advocate for a full investigation and initiate litigation in the event there are violations against civic activists during the election.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $31,310
Project Title: Regional Broadcasting on Local Governance Issues
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote accountability of elected officials and candidates ahead of the 2016 local government elections in Gyumri. The grantee will produce interview programs and televised debates with candidates for local office, reports on the local government and parliamentary elections, vox populi segments, and reports on election processes during the pre-election period and on election day. The grantee will also train 80 citizen journalists to cover the election in polling stations throughout the Shirak region.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $39,940
Project Title: Promoting Freedom of Assembly
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To promote human rights and freedom of assembly. The organization will study the harassment and intimidation tactics used against civic activists during the 2015 constitutional referendum; conduct a legal assessment of human rights violations experienced by election observers during the referendum; and develop a comprehensive illustrated guideline on citizens' rights to freedom of assembly. The grantee will host a public event to share the guidelines ahead of the 2017 parliamentary elections in Armenia.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $29,557
Project Title: Monitoring the Parliamentary Elections
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To monitor the parliamentary elections scheduled to take place in May 2017. The grantee will train 500 monitors to observe the election procedures at 150 precincts throughout Armenia. The grantee will advocate for a full investigation and initiate litigation in the instance of serious electoral violations.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $90,466
Project Title: Documentary Film: Armenian Emigration during the Cold War
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote understanding and discussion of Armenia's Soviet history and the legacy of its totalitarian system. The organization will produce a documentary examining the differences between communism and democracy as described by Armenians who experienced both; write a series of 12 investigative articles, which will be consolidated into a book; and host community discussions and presentations in three cities in Armenia.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $34,120
Project Title: Promoting Government Accountability
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To encourage civic activism and to promote government accountability in Armenia's mining sector. The organization will undertake strategic litigation in domestic and international courts; engage in national and international processes involving mining industry oversight; organize conferences and roundtables; and produce articles and press releases on its research.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $43,315
Project Title: Monitoring Local Elections
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To monitor local elections in Armenia scheduled to take place in 2016. The organization will train 500 monitors to observe the election procedures at 100 precincts throughout Armenia. In the instance of serious electoral violations, the organization will advocate for a full investigation and initiate litigation.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $49,951
Project Title: Promoting Government Accountability
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To promote government accountability and access to justice in Armenia. The group will monitor instances of official misconduct, provide legal support to victims of crimes perpetrated by government employees, and produce informational materials on legal recourse in cases of rights violations. The grantee will also undertake strategic litigation, produce a study of existing cases involving government officials' abuse of power for public dissemination, and host press conferences.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $45,030
Project Title: Promoting Civic Engagement
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To promote networking and civic engagement among youth in Armenia. The grantee will create a center where activists from different social and political groups can meet, collaborate, and exchange ideas. The grantee will invite civil society activists, students, and women to attend panel discussions, lectures, seminars, and workshops at its youth center in Yerevan.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $32,112
Project Title: Regional Civic Activism
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To promote activism and leadership in the regions of Armenia. The organization will support activists and young leaders in the regions in Armenia. Activists in regional cities will conduct 100 trainings for young activists on citizenship, civil disobedience, and civil society organization.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $32,485
Project Title: Independent News and Online Television
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To provide independent news and analysis of Armenian politics and dialogue with Azerbaijani counterparts. The organization will produce daily news and analysis, including video reporting, discussion shows, in-depth video investigations, and documentary films on political and human rights topics.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $89,923
Project Title: Promoting Government Accountability
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To promote rule of law and government accountability in Armenia. The organization will provide legal aid to victims of police corruption, undertake litigation on traffic violation cases in domestic courts, and develop legislative recommendations on improving traffic law administration. The grantee's ultimate objective will be to create a sustainable appeal mechanism for traffic penalty decisions.
Year: 2016
Award Amount: $36,794
Project Title: Protecting Journalists' Rights
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To monitor freedom of the press in Armenia. The grantee will document violations of journalists' rights, provide free legal aid to media organizations, and conduct strategic litigation. It will publish its findings in four quarterly reports and organize a roundtable discussion at the conclusion of the project.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $37,566
Project Title: Defending Freedom of Assembly
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To defend Armenian citizens' right to peaceful assembly. The organization will provide legal assistance to the victims of police brutality during the July 2016 demonstrations in Yerevan. The grantee will coordinate with a coalition of NGOs to provide legal assistance and submit cases to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The organization will advocate for pre-trial detention in line with ECtHR standards, compile a report on its findings, and host a public discussion at the conclusion of the project.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $42,272
Project Title: Public Debate on Foreign Policy
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote informed public debate on Armenian foreign policy. The organization will analyze Armenia's accession to the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), focusing on the under-discussed negative implications of the EEU on Armenia's democratic development and foreign policy achievements. The organization will research and produce articles and animated videos on fifteen thematic areas related to Armenia's accession to the EEU and host two three-day seminars with journalists near Yerevan to increase awareness on the issue.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $62,500
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