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All results totalling $8,397,267
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Project Title: Reforming Student Institutions
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Civic Education
Description: To reform student institutions in Shirak region. The organization will conduct research, interviews, and focus groups to develop a proposal for reforming student councils and submit it to the Ministry of Education for consideration during upcoming national education reform. The organization will monitor the activities of a university student council and administration to increase accountability during the research process. The organization will create a student-run platform to raise awareness of student and youth issues, including the abuse of university resources and undue political influence on campus.
Year: 2020
Award Amount: $37,210
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: 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: Independent News Website
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To maintain a daily online news portal and to produce journalistic investigations on important current events topics. Articles will be published in Armenian, Russian, and English and will focus on political and economic developments as well as ongoing reform processes in Armenia. During this two-year program, the partner's investigative team will focus on issues of political and social relevance in addition to its regular news coverage.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $198,850
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: 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: 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 work with members of the Armenian parliament to improve the work of the prosecutor, and host a roundtable at the conclusion of the project on rule of law and human rights issues within Armenia.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $53,922
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Militarism: a Disinformation Narrative in Armenian Society
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To protect the Armenian information space against malign influence from authoritarian actors. The grantee will research public statements about the Nagorno Karabakh conflict to analyze how foreign and local authoritarian actors seek to employ militarist positions to frighten the population and manipulate public opinion. To enhance public debate of this controversial topic, the organization will conduct monitoring, write articles, hold small workshops and a final conference. The articles will also be shared online and compiled into a book.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $49,940
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: 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: Measuring Public Opinion on Foreign Policy
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote informed public debate on Western values and institutions. The organization will survey public opinion on Armenia's political, economic, and security relations with the West and Russia, with a focus on the recently signed Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement with the European Union. The organization will also monitor Armenian media outlets' coverage of Western- and Russian-led institutions and facilitate discussions on foreign policy through three public roundtables with political parties.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $36,950
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: 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: 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 accession to the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), focusing on the overlooked negative implications of the EEU on Armenia's democratic development and geopolitical security. 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: 2018
Award Amount: $70,629
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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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 grantee will publish its findings in four quarterly assessments and a final video report. The grantee will organize a roundtable discussion to discuss its monitoring results at the conclusion of the project.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $39,024
Project Title: Youth Engagement on Public Policy
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote youth engagement in public policy discourse. The organization will study the impact of public policy on civil liberties, with a focus on Armenia's militarization policies and political rhetoric, and produce a series of multimedia educational materials on its findings. The organization will conduct workshops with youth and civil society members to discuss its research and opportunities to protect human rights through political engagement.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $40,106
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
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
Project Title: Human Rights Trainings
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Democratic Ideas and Values
Description: To promote the protection of human rights and due process in Armenia as the government implements political, economic, and social reforms. The organization will hold seminars in Tbilisi for Armenian civil society to gain a deeper understanding of Georgia's reform process after 2003. At the conclusion of the program, the organization will create a network of human rights NGOs from each country to facilitate information sharing as Armenia's new government determines its post-revolutionary reform priorities.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $44,997
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: 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: $51,644
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: Promoting Judicial Reform
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Rule of Law
Description: To promote judicial reform in Armenia. The grantee will organize a training on administrative justice, conduct trial monitoring in administrative courts, and provide legal assistance to Armenian citizens dealing with public administration and administrative justice. At the conclusion of the program, the organization will compile a package of reforms on administrative justice, which is a priority issue for Armenia's new government.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $46,436
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: 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: Supporting Independent Reporting
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote public discussion of current events in Armenia. The organization will produce an interactive talk show to analyze some of the key challenges facing Armenian society. The shows will increase opportunities for civil society and viewers to engage in unfolding events, particularly the anticipated snap parliamentary elections. The grantee will also conduct journalist trainings to encourage impartial reporting and to raise the level of professionalism in the media.
Year: 2018
Award Amount: $59,824
Project Title: Promoting Media Accountability
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Freedom of Information
Description: To promote transparency of ownership of Armenian media, and to monitor and protect freedom of the media. The organization will work with a group of experts to develop legislative proposals for new laws governing transparency of funding and beneficial ownership in the media, and advocate for the adoption of these policies. In addition, the organization will continue to monitor the implementation of new legislation after it is adopted, and any ongoing violations of journalists' rights.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $37,466
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: "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: 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: 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 promote government accountability in Armenia's mining sector. The organization will seek to reduce corruption and to increase public participation by contributing to reform of the environmental impact assessment process. The grantee will conduct analysis of the environmental impact assessment process and use its findings to advocate for transparent and participatory review process.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $36,124
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: Promoting Government Accountability
Project Region: Eurasia
Project Country: Armenia
Project Focus: Accountability and Governance
Description: To promote government accountability and access to justice in Armenia. The grantee will monitor instances of official misconduct, provide legal support to victims of crimes perpetrated by government officials, and produce informational materials on legal recourse in cases of rights violations. The organization will also undertake strategic litigation on four cases in domestic courts, produce reports on cases involving government officials' abuse of power for public dissemination, create a blog documenting instances of corruption in Armenia, and host press conferences to announce the program's findings.
Year: 2019
Award Amount: $50,450
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
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