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Displaying records 26-50 of 108 results
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, conduct trainings, and organize conferences designed to place issues of democracy and rule of law at the center of discourse about foreign policy in Armenia.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $48,114
Project Title: Supporting Local Partners to Safeguard 2017 Parliamentary Elections
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Political Processes
Description: To support citizen election observation of the April 2017 parliamentary elections in Armenia. The institute will utilize peer-to-peer learning, international trainers, and financial support to a local partner with the goal of strengthening the organization's professionalism and outreach to Armenian citizens and the international community.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $120,000
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 program will provide legal aid to military conscripts, monitor court cases of soldiers and socially vulnerable citizens, and conduct strategic litigation. It will also organize public debates, produce videos, and publish a monitoring report on access to free legal aid.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $37,233
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: 2017
Award Amount: $40,830
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. The grantee will produce video discussions and short films to raise awareness of human rights issues within the country. The organization will also compile a report outlining recommended changes to the judiciary.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $39,990
Project Title: Independent News Website
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote independent journalism by maintaining a daily news website. Articles will be published in Armenian, Russian, and English and will focus on economics, politics, and the judiciary. During this two-year program, the organization's investigative team will focus on issues of political and social relevance in addition to its regular news coverage.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $95,965
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 independent news and information in Armenia. The grantee will expand coverage of current events on its website. Under this program, participating journalists will devote particular attention to covering the Yerevan City Council and 2017 parliamentary elections.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $40,840
Project Title: Regional Broadcasting on Local Governance Issues
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote the accountability of local government officials and Members of Parliament representing Gyumri, the second-largest city in Armenia. The organization will produce television talk shows, live stream city council meetings, draft analytical articles, and organize a conference on local political developments. At the conclusion of the program, the grantee will compile a final report and produce a video on its key findings.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $44,900
Project Title: Strengthening Pro-Reform Dialogue Phase 2
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To strengthen the Armenian business community's engagement in the democratic reform process through economic policy advocacy, and to improve the internal capacity and leadership of the Business Advocacy Network (BAN). The center will assist BAN, a grassroots coalition of 18 business organizations, in launching a National Business Agenda advocacy campaign and engaging in dialogue with the government.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $195,259
Project Title: Supporting Political Parties to Develop Citizen-Centered Policies
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote the development of citizen-oriented public policies informed by public consultation. The institute will carry out an assessment of the current state of policy development, and develop and deliver targeted training and mentoring. Parties will engage a single area of public concern, analyze root causes and impacts, engage with citizens and stakeholders, and develop a comprehensive "platform" that the party will propose to address that concern.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $160,000
Project Title: Analyticon Monthly Journal
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To stimulate public discussion on current events in the South Caucasus. The organization will publish a monthly journal on political, social, and economic developments. The grantee will organize twelve roundtable discussions after the publication of each journal.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $50,008
Project Title: MediaLab
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote debate on controversial topics through the use of political satire. The grantee will produce monthly comics on relevant political and social issues in its newspaper Tsets. During the final two months of the project, the grantee will publish a comic book of the entire series. Materials from this project will also be made available online and shared on social media.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $40,346
Project Title: Independent Television Broadcasting
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote public discussion of current events in the South Caucasus. The organization will produce an interactive talk show to analyze the key challenges facing Armenian society. It will also investigate Georgia's political and economic outlook during the second half of the program. The emerging picture will encourage comparisons between how Georgia benefits from its associations with the EU and how Armenia does not reap similar advantages from the Eurasian Economic Union.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $41,916
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 on four cases in domestic courts, produce a report on cases involving government officials' abuse of power for public dissemination, and host press conferences to announce the program's findings.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $47,460
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 engage in national and international processes involving mining industry oversight; organize conferences and roundtables; and produce articles and press releases on its research.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $42,770
Project Title: Documentary Film: The Choice between Home and Freedom
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To foster understanding and discussion of Armenia's Soviet history and the legacy of a totalitarian system. The organization will produce a documentary examining the differences between communism and democracy as described by Armenians who experienced both; create a graphic novel on the subject matter explored in the documentary; and host community discussions and presentations in three cities in Armenia.
Year: 2017
Award Amount: $34,055
Project Title: Epress.am
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To provide news and analysis of Armenian current events on its website, Epress.am. The network 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: 2017
Award Amount: $68,865
Project Title: Analyticon Monthly Journal
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote public discussion on current events in the South Caucasus. The organization will publish a monthly journal on political, social, and economic developments in the Caucasus, with a particular focus on analysis of current events and trends. The grantee will organize online discussions to facilitate discussion among its readers on the topics covered in each of the journals.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $82,351
Project Title: Comics.am
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote debate about current affairs through political satire. The organization will publish monthly comics on relevant political and social issues on its website. During the final month of the project, they will publish a comic book of the entire series. Materials from this project will also be distributed using social media platforms.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $52,640
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 and security policy. The institute will produce analytical articles, host roundtable discussions, conduct trainings, and organize forums designed to promote development of a united policy agenda anchored in shared democratic values. The project will increase the availability of objective information on the importance of Euro-Atlantic integration and the interrelationship of domestic and foreign policy.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $104,233
Project Title: Epress.am
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To provide news and analysis of Armenian current events on its website, Epress.am. The organization will produce daily news and analysis, including video reporting, and produce discussion shows, in-depth video investigations, and documentary films on political and human rights topics. The grantee will devote particular attention to covering snap parliamentary elections, which are expected to take place in spring 2019.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $59,030
Project Title: EVN Report
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote debate and discussion on current events. The organization will publish news articles, draft special reports, and conduct policy analysis on the key social and political issues in the country. The grantee will also produce a weekly news digest podcast and host live forums online to facilitate reader interaction with the magazine's editorial staff.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $38,944
Project Title: Human Rights Journalism Training
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness of democracy and human rights issues in Armenia. The grantee will conduct trainings on media ethics, domestic violence, discrimination, democracy, and human rights for television news journalists. In consultation with the grantee, the journalists will then produce television programs devoted to these issues for local broadcast.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $37,159
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 trials, and conduct strategic litigation. The grantee will produce an online interview program to raise awareness of human rights issues within the country. The organization will also host a roundtable at the conclusion of the project on rule of law and human rights issues within Armenia.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $40,924
Project Title: Human Rights Training for Conscripts
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Human Rights
Description: To raise awareness on human rights among military conscripts. The organization will draft an informational booklet on Armenia's legislation regulating conscription and military service, conduct trainings in Yerevan and the regions on these laws, and provide legal assistance to conscripts whose rights have been violated. The grantee will organize a meeting to discuss key findings from the trainings at the conclusion of the project.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $38,006
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