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Displaying records 76-100 of 108 results
All results totalling $8,397,267
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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 grantee will analyze Armenia's economic and security situation, including the overlooked implications of the Eurasian Economic Union on Armenia's democratic development and geopolitical security. The organization will conduct research and produce articles and videos conduct fact-checking, hold public discussions on the importance of transparency in foreign policy, and host three three-day seminars with journalists.. In addition, the organization will commission a poll on media literacy and public opinion to examine the influence of disinformation.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $144,932
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 organization will monitor government performance and create opportunities for dialogue between government representatives and the public. The grantee will encourage civic engagement through trainings in journalism and participatory monitoring.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $89,070
Project Title: Supporting Independent Reporting
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote public discussion of current events and political developments in Armenia. The organization will produce news reports and talk shows to analyze some of the key challenges facing Armenian society. The grantee will also conduct journalism trainings to encourage impartial reporting and to raise the level of professionalism in the media.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $135,672
Project Title: EVN Report
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote debate and discussion on current events in Armenia. The organization will publish articles on recent events and on the key social and political issues in the country. Its Armenian- and English-language coverage will provide domestic audience and international observers with objective analysis of the challenges Armenia faces in its democratic development.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $7,700
Project Title: Political Party Development
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Strengthening Political Institutions
Description: To provide youth with meaningful opportunities to contribute to political parties' development and growth, the institute will prepare young party master trainers to provide core organizing, issue identification, and communications skills to party activists. More than 500 activists from five parties will have the skills to address party priorities in a variety of areas, including communications, outreach, and member recruitment.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $500,000
Project Title: "The Analyticon" Monthly Journal
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 publish a monthly scholarly journal on political, social, and economic developments in Nagorno Karabakh, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. The grantee will organize 18 online discussions on social media to facilitate discussion among its readers on the topics covered in each edition of the journal.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $97,176
Project Title: Advocating for Media Reforms
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To advocate for media reform, and to monitor and protect freedom of the media. The organization will work with a group of experts to develop and advocate for legislative proposals for new laws governing media transparency, freedom of speech issues, and broadcast licensing, among others. The organization will continue to monitor the implementation of new legislation after it is adopted. Additionally, the organization will produce legal analyses of high-profile court cases involving free speech issues and monitor any violations of journalists' rights.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $53,629
Project Title: Aliq Armenia
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To provide citizens of Armenia with unbiased news and information, as well as high quality analytical and documentary content. The organization will broadcast daily news programming online using its website and social media, and issue regular feature pieces focusing on Armenia's ongoing reform processes, and pressing social issues such as the environment, youth issues and civic education.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $56,285
Project Title: Aravot Daily
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To increase the reach of reliable information about current events and political developments in Armenia. The organization will publish balanced, high-quality news coverage of current events, analytical articles, interviews, and news from four regions in Armenia. The organization will actively expand its social media presence to reach a broader audience and will translate select content into Russian and English. All content will be published on the grantee's website and on its social media pages.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $60,534
Project Title: Building National Youth Networks
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To improve the capacity of regional youth groups to engage in civic and political activism and to build a national network of civically minded youth. The organization will train and mentor regional youth groups as they design small projects that address local issues. The organization will also conduct study visits to Yerevan for students from regional high schools to connect with politically active youth and learn about the importance of civic activism.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $55,380
Project Title: Civil Society for Better Governance
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: NGO Strengthening
Description: To improve the capacity of Armenian civil society, particularly new movements and organizations outside of Yerevan, to contribute to local and national policy discussions, and to more effectively respond to and represent the needs of their communities. The grantee will hold a series of trainings for young activists and NGO leaders, hold roundtable discussions to bring stakeholders together, and train young researchers on methods for incorporating their work into civil society projects.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $44,950
Project Title: Combatting Foreign Policy Myths
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To present an accurate picture of current global affairs, their impact on Armenia, and Armenia's geopolitical role through a series of televised and online lectures and in-person discussions. The organization will prepare a lecture series on topics that have been employed to support common disinformation narratives, such as threats to national security and attacks on traditional values.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $47,700
Project Title: Countering Misinformation about Armenia
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote a better understanding of Armenian politics and policy positions inside the country and internationally, and to increase the availability of information on citizen demands. The organization will hold two study visits for independent journalists from Russia to meet with Armenian politicians and civil society. The organization will conduct analytical research and polling on the Armenian government's response to disinformation campaigns and make policy recommendations based on their findings.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $38,760
Project Title: Democracy, Security, and Foreign Policy
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To increase the capacity of members of parliament and their staff and to promote informed public debate about Armenian foreign and security policy. The organization will host consultations, trainings, and webinars for members of parliament and their staff, and will sponsor parliamentary fellowships. The organization will likewise produce analytical articles, host roundtable discussions, conduct trainings, and organize forums designed to promote the development of a policy agenda anchored in shared democratic values.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $79,657
Project Title: Empowering Citizens Through Independent Media
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote debate and discussion on current events in Armenia. The organization will publish articles on recent events and on the key social and political issues in the country. Its Armenian- and English-language coverage will provide the domestic audience and international observers with objective analysis of the challenges Armenia faces in its democratic development.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $64,099
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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