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Grant List of 2012 Year

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-12-29
Program:	National Education
Grant Number:	18271
Organization:	Barev, NGO
Grant Amount:	$21,600.00
Purpose:	For the following purposes: to research and analyze the state of curriculum reforms in the secondary education field and the quality of the in service teacher trainings designed and implemented, bring up, highlight and prioritize the problems and burning issues in school reform process in Armenia related to the targeted areas, with a special focus on problems and issues that could practically be addressed, and with an aim of identifying possible realistic solutions

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-12-26
Program:	National Education
Grant Number:	18291
Organization:	Center for Educational Research and Consulting, LLC.
Grant Amount:	$21,343.00
Purpose:	For the following purposes: to research and analyze the current state of implementation of inclusive education in Armenia, identify risks and challenges, potential opportunities and provide recommendations, thus to enforce decision making on further improvements in inclusive education system (in the scope of projected overall inclusiveness)

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-10-25
Program:	Media
Grant Number:	18107
Organization:	Asparez, Journalists' Club, NGO
Grant Amount:	$54,188.00
Purpose:	For the following purposes: to support “Gyumri-Asparez” daily newspaper through strengthening content, capacity building and coverage in order to provide readers with independent, diverse and alternative content. This will be done through developing and expanding staff of reporters by including local correspondents in Lori region, developing content of the newspaper by upgrading professional skills of reporters, expanding dissemination-sale network of the daily by delivering and selling in 8 cities in Shirak and Lori regions. The newspaper will provide readers with analytical articles and investigative materials

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-11-26
Program:	Media
Grant Number:	18166
Organization:	Region, Research Center
Grant Amount:	$20,850.00
Purpose:	For the following purposes: to conduct content analysis of Facebook messages, topics and trends shared by presidential candidates, their supporters, active users and groups in Facebook to find out content developments and candidates’ direct approaches to political and social issues in pre-election and post-election periods. Content analysis of collected data will be based on primary source of information, which will be a starting point for the analysis of messages, topics and trends. Scope of concepts will be defined, which will be measurable and subject to study for the content analysis. The project also aims to study coverage of the presidential elections by online media in Facebook, and to find out interests of Facebook users towards 2013 presidential elections through studying election-related Facebook groups. Content and quantitative analysis of Facebook pages of candidates, their supporters, active users, online publications and Facebook discourses related to elections will be conducted within the project. Facebook monitoring will be divided into 3 stages; Dec 2012 (1st stage), Jan-Feb 2013 (2nd stage), the voting day and 2 weeks after (3rd stage). After completing each stage, monitoring results will be presented in 3 press-conferences and 4 electronic bulletins in Armenian and English will be published in the Internet and distributed via mailing lists

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-10-30
Program:	Media
Grant Number:	18188
Organization:	ALT TV Media, LLC
Grant Amount:	$14,781.00
Purpose:	For the following purposes: to support ALT TV to develop its website, alttv.am, to become a sustainable regional online media in order to provide the general public with regional news and analysis on social and political developments taking place in the regions. The project is aimed to raise public awareness of regional problems and to present them to the general public discussion. Analytical materials, news stories, on-line broadcast programs, on-line coverage of pre-election, election and post-election processes will be prepared, published and uploaded on www.alttv.am website. Materials will also be shared in social media

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-11-19
Program:	Media
Grant Number:	18230
Organization:	Housaber CJSC, Yerkir Media TV Company
Grant Amount:	$26,660.00
Purpose:	For the following purpose: to support production of "Bardzradzayn" TV program on Yerkir Media TV channel in order to ensure discussion of important social and political developments taking place in the country. It is proposed to broadcast “Bardzradzayn” TV debates/talk shows with participation of 4-6 guests, equality representing the opposing positions. 14 discussions will be broadcast during 4 months period. TV programs will be broadcast once a week at 9:45 PM on Tuesdays and rerun at 1:45 PM on Sundays. Mini-series followed by talk shows will be aired up to 10 minutes duration. Project Board will be formed to ensure impartiality and objectiveness of discussions and mini-series through advising topics and guests for the discussions

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-10-30
Program:	Law
Grant Number:	18267
Organization:	Protection of Rights without Borders, NGO
Grant Amount:	$3,000.00
Purpose:	For the following purposes: to develop and improve submitted proposal in accordance with recommendations done by the Foundation, experts and HRGGP

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-12-25
Program:	Law
Grant Number:	18181
Organization:	Protection of Rights without Borders, NGO
Grant Amount:	$99,800.00
Purpose:	For the following purposes: to research and report on certain aspects of fair trial within the context of Appellate Courts and Court of Cassation. This is to be done through conducting court monitoring sessions, analysis and processing of data collected through monitoring and through analysis of legislative and regulative aspects. The current grant has two phases. Within the first phase, the grantee will develop criteria for assessment of admissibility decisions of the Court of Cassation, criteria for assessment of the quality of judicial decisions and a comprehensive monitoring methodology for the project; review methodology and develop an advocacy plan with international experts. Upon completion of the first phase, the results will be assessed by the Board of Directors of OSIAF Armenia and the second phase will start upon satisfactory evaluation of the developed methodology and follow up strategy for the monitoring and reporting of the results. The budget for the first phase of the project is $16,882 and the budget for the second phase of the project is $82,918

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-12-25
Program:	Law
Grant Number:	18221
Organization:	Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor Office-Helsinki Committee of Armenia
Grant Amount:	$74,384.00
Purpose:	For the following purposes: to promote the reform in the criminal-executive institutions including pre-trial settings by introducing and applying effective instruments for the protection of detainees’ and convicts' rights, such as monitoring and evaluating needs within detainees, convicts and their relatives, amending the national legislation regulating the activities of penitentiaries to make them in line with international and European prison rules and advocating for implementation of effective mechanisms protecting detainees' and convicts' rights. The capacity of the Group will be built for further applying new monitoring tools and proposing recommendations to promote reform in penitentiaries. The Group will create a deeper focus on conditions of detention of marginalized groups by adopting the Framework for monitoring health in closed settings developed by international prison health experts. The group will closely cooperate with police monitoring group and other partners in developing joined strategies for advocacy and public awareness about the rights and situation of detainees and convicts in penitentiaries

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-12-15
Program:	Law
Grant Number:	18127
Organization:	Public Information and Need of Knowledge, NGO (PINK)
Grant Amount:	$6,000.00
Purpose:	For the following purposes: to support strategic litigation on protection of rights of LGBT community. The litigation shall have 3 different directions: protection of rights of the head of DIY club within criminal litigation at local level; application to ECHR on hate speech and application to ECHR on hate crime

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-11-23
Program:	Civil Society
Grant Number:	18211
Organization:	New Generation, NGO
Grant Amount:	$2,995.00
Purpose:	For the following purposes: to strengthen cooperation of human rights organizations on LGBT issues; to organize a training-workshop for 10 human rights organizations for capacity building and awareness raising of those organizations in LGBT rights; to develop a strategic plan with the participant NGOs for advocating the LGBT issues in Armenia, to organize a range of regional meetings with NGOs to discuss LGBT problems; to conduct a survey in LGBT rights situation in regions and publish a report

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-11-23
Program:	Civil Society
Grant Number:	18208
Organization:	Agate, Center for Women with Special Needs, NGO
Grant Amount:	$3,000.00
Purpose:	For the following purposes: to organize seminar-trainings for the staff members of Customer Service, Passport Control and Registration sections of “Shirak” airport (30 people) to educate them about the needs of people with disabilities and services for disabled passengers to improve the quality of services and make air travel more accessible for people with disabilities in “Shirak” airport of Gyumri; to provide information and materials on accessible travel for persons with disabilities; to publish booklets and materials on the topic of “Access to Air Travel for Disabled Persons and Persons with Reduced Mobility” in Armenian language; to organize broad social advertisement about new conditions for people with disabilities in “Shirak” airport

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-11-23
Program:	Civil Society
Grant Number:	18207
Organization:	Spitak Helsinki Group, NGO
Grant Amount:	$2,989.00
Purpose:	For the following purposes: to conduct a survey on the conditions for proper provision of free medical services in the hospital and policlinics of Spitak and the dispensaries of Arevshat and Mets Parni communities trough interviewing 200 people in target communities on the exercise of the right to free medical services, monitoring of sanitarian and hygiene conditions and technical equipment of the target medical facilities; to analyze the data and prepare a report on discovered problems and findings with recommendations; to organize public presentation of the report and ensure broad distribution to relevant stakeholders; to increase awareness of at least 5000 people through weekly announcements via local TV and dissemination of 300 booklets in target locations on the rights to free medical services

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-11-23
Program:	Civil Society
Grant Number:	18205
Organization:	Sustain Development Center, NGO
Grant Amount:	$2,980.00
Purpose:	For the following purposes: to organize 10 trainings on human rights and rights of the child for 45-50 high school students in 5 schools of Armavir and neighboring communities; to organize awareness raising campaign on rights of the child for children and teachers in 5 target schools; to organize an intellectual contest-game for the training participants after trainings to strengthen the acquired knowledge

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-12-12
Program:	Information
Grant Number:	18209
Organization:	Media Diversity Institute
Grant Amount:	$28,930.00
Purpose:	For implementation of the iDitord platform; strengthening the practice of crowd-sourcing the electoral process violations, and ensuring secure and secret operation of iditord.org portal during the presidential elections to be held in Armenia in February, 2013. During all phases of project implementation, the third party independent Security Consultant will be involved who will have full control and access to all systems and procedures developed and implemented: a) According to the recommendations of Security Consultant to ensure the security of the website from types of attacks including but not limited to Cross-site Scripting, SQL Injection, DDoS, and to ensure security and secrecy of data about alerts submissions; b) Redesign the project website to fit the changing needs; c) Launch an online advertising campaign; d) Forge partnerships with interested NGOs; e) Organize moderation and editing of the data collected via the iDitord platform in pre-election campaign period, on the Election Day and during post election period; f) Publicize information about the project, the electoral process, alerts received via two press conferences held in pre-election and post-election periods. In case if there will be objective evidence of security violation during project implementation the Foundation reserves the right to terminate the Grant Agreement

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-12-29
Program:	HESP
Grant Number:	18293
Organization:	Yerevan State University, IT Educational and Research Center
Grant Amount:	$84,330.00
Purpose:	For the following purposes: to build three comprehensive courses for online instruction, accompanied by a toolset that will guide and support users (university faculty, students, other academic community) in revising and making their course content online and making them available for open use and reuse. Three Armenian universities will be involved in the project with overall four courses to be upgraded, namely, Yerevan State University, State Engineering and Russian-Armenian Universities. The courses developed are on Modern Concepts of Natural Sciences for YSU and RAU in Armenian and Russian respectively with 20% content modification, and an additional one from SEUA,which is to be confirmed. At least five faculty members from the above universities will be involved in course development and will get their skills enhanced in delivering online courses through comprehensive training

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-11-06
Program:	East East
Grant Number:	18266
Organization:	Utopiana.am, NGO
Grant Amount:	$3,360.00
Purpose:	For the following purposes: to organize the second meeting within the project "Ensuring the Public Space for Citizens through their Engagement" from December 9-14, 2012 in Yerevan, Armenia. This project is seen as an integral part of the SPACES (Sustainable Public Areas for Culture in Eastern Countries) project that is funded by the European Union through the Eastern Partnership Culture Programme with implementation during 2012-2014. The current proposal aims to add value to the SPACES project (which through cultural action approaches issues of urban planning and policies related to public spaces distribution and development), namely to provide comprehensive theoretical understanding of the transformations of public spaces – an important piece in the democratic infrastructure – in several post-socialist capital cities after the fall of the USSR: Chisinau, Yerevan, Tbilisi and Kyiv

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-02-29
Program:	Women
Grant Number:	17920
Organization:	Media Partners, CJSC
Grant Amount:	5645 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to make a serious social impact on youth (aged 16-35) providing a platform for open discussion, and promoting Armenian art. The aim is not just to present a wide range of the 20th century artworks related to the image of women but to offer a series of drop-in workshops, lectures, and events on women’s issues. By creating a platform for critical inquiry and exploration of the portrait of women today and making parallels with the 20th century images, the exhibition will raise awareness amongst the youth about the representation practices and induce a public debate that goes beyond simply appreciating and consuming art

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-03-23
Program:	Women
Grant Number:	17525
Organization:	Association of Women with University Education
Grant Amount:	49490 USD
Purpose:
For the following puproses: to facilitate women’s direct engagement in public policy making by enhancing their leadership skills and ensuring government’s compliance with international commitments on gender equality. The applicant envisages four clusters of mutually reinforcing activities: educational, informative, civic initiatives, and research. The educational part of the project will focus on capacity-building for socially active women through trainings and seminars on human rights, civic activism, and leadership and campaigning tactics to boost women’s skills to actively participating in elections both as candidates and voters. The civic initiatives pillar of the project intends to run international and national campaigns to promote gender mainstreaming and gender sensitive legislation, as well as organize debates with political parties on the 2012 elections and inclusion of women’s interests on their campaign agenda. The research part of the project will focus on monitoring of the government’s efforts to translate the international agreements (CEDAW, Beijing Platform for Action, and MDG) into domestic legal guarantees of gender equality and drafting a shadow report for the period of 2008-2012 with concrete recommendations. The informative cluster aims to support the activities of the organization and its branches, educational programs and civic initiatives by creating a platform for information exchange for all the branches and structures of the Association

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-10-31
Program:	Women
Grant Number:	18071
Organization:	Sose Women Issues, NGO
Grant Amount:	22236 USD
Purpose:
Project intends to use new tactics of visualization to raise awareness on women’s reproductive health and expose the detrimental consequences an unbalanced sex ratio will have for the country’s demographic future. The applicant envisages three mutually reinforcing activities within the framework of this project. The first component is production of a 60-minute documentary called “The Red Apple” that will examine the distinct social, economic, political, and cultural factors reinforcing the preconceived gender preferences, as well as encourage the society to take action against sex-selective abortions. In order to reach a wide audience at all levels of society and initiate a public discussion, the documentary screenings will be accompanied by health education trainings in five regions of Armenia in order to address reproductive health misconceptions and stereotypes. Ultimately, the project aims to accelerate amendments to the Law on Reproductive Health and Rights that would increase regulatory supervision of doctors performing abortions by enlisting the support of informed citizens that have the power to shape the decisions of policy makers and get the issue of sex-selective abortions onto the agenda of legislators

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-05-29
Program:	Women
Grant Number:	18070
Organization:	Media Partners, CJSC
Grant Amount:	29474 USD
Purpose:
The project aims to break the culture of silence by creating a healthy atmosphere for public discussions surrounding such issues as domestic violence, trafficking, sexual assault, etc. Invoking the alarming data from the UNFPA’s 2008-2010 Nationwide Survey on Domestic Violence against Women and 2009-2010 PROMEDIA-GENDER NGO’s research Issue of Gender-Based Violence as Presented by Armenian Mass Media, the applicant effectively argues that the broadcast and print media further exacerbates this atmosphere of fear and silence since it fails to address accurately gender-based violence stories and the issues of gender inequality in general are consistently overlooked. This project is designed to create a safe platform for open and healthy discussions on women’s rights and gender-based violence issues. The applicant envisages raising awareness on these issues through the following means: localizing the “Real Life Read” slug that covers stories of real women dealing with domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking, unhealthy relationships, etc., and provides advice to women and girls how to avoid or handle similar situations; placing 1-3 social advertisements in each issue, which can be either an advertorial articles on various campaigns by local women’s rights NGOs or image commercials; starting an online article series on empowered and successful women and launching a new slug about local stories on violence in relationships and in family with the tips on how to overcome them both from the women’s rights and legal perspectives

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-07-16
Program:	Women
Grant Number:	18064
Organization:	Tufenkian Foundation
Grant Amount:	52000 USD
Purpose:
For providing protection services and legal assistance to victims of domestic violence. The project envisions setting up and running an emergency housing facility for women and children in need of safety. The Foundation intends to establish a network of shelters in Yerevan, Gyumri and Martuni in order to fill the fundamental gap in provision of protection and meet the vast needs of the country. The Gyumri shelter, the funding for which is requested from the OSF-Armenia, will accommodate 4-5 women and their children at a time for no longer than 3 months. The emergency shelter project is designed to both provide safe housing and legal assistance or counseling in order to combat impunity of perpetrators of violence against women. The project intends to empower the victims by providing information about violence against women, counseling, legal and court support, individual and group therapy, medical care, and support finding affordable housing and employment. The Foundation also seeks to cooperate with the Ministry of Social Affairs in its efforts to expand protection services for the victims of domestic violence once they leave the shelter. The applicant envisages running trainings on gender justice for judges, police, and priests when the government adopts the law on “Domestic Violence” (it is scheduled to be discussed in the National Assembly this Fall)

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-07-27
Program:	Health
Grant Number:	18150
Organization:	Armenian Center for Health Initiatives
Grant Amount:	46265 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to advance enforcement of legislation to promote human rights in patient care, particularly for marginalized groups by advocating for better legislative protection and implementation of patient’s right to privacy and confidentiality, assisting partner organizations in advocating for the rights of patients; updating the Practitioner Guide and its online version; conducting a series of 4 trainings for lawyers, CSOs with the use of the Practitioner Guide to build capacity in human rights in patient care; conducting a series of 4 workshops for medical practitioners to promote patient’s and provider’s rights and duties in healthcare service delivery among medical society; organizing a series of 6 meetings with CSOs and their beneficiaries to improve patient awareness level on their rights and mechanisms of protection of those rights; developing, publishing and disseminating patient-friendly materials focused on 2 groups of marginalized populations (palliative care patients/their families and sex workers) to enhance awareness level of vulnerable groups of population on their rights in receiving health care by; engaging with human rights bodies by preparing shadow reports; further enhancing the content of the www.healthrights.am website

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-09-26
Program:	National Education
Grant Number:	18146
Organization:	Jinishian Memorial Foundation
Grant Amount:	41350 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to operate youth debate clubs in 108 schools in Armenia providing space for adolescents to engage in debates about key issues related to their lives, development of civil society, democracy and human rights

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-05-22
Program:	National Education
Grant Number:	17923
Organization:	American University of Armenia
Grant Amount:	16235 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to research the current situation of access to secondary education in Armenia in view of the physical, financial, material, technical, legal, personnel and attitudinal aspects via collecting data from thirty secondary and high schools in four marzes and Yerevan

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-05-30
Program:	Media
Grant Number:	17878
Organization:	Public Journalism Club
Grant Amount:	20309 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: empowering citizen journalism, hacking socially important issues, developing My News mobile platform for the upcoming Presidential elections in 2013, to foster pre-election and election reporting by citizen reporters via mobile application. The project will have several components: a) “Presidential Elections 2013, Armenia” section within My News’s mobile app; b) Q&A section on My News’s website will be developed; c)3.4 reporting contests for “citizen reporter + professional journalist” format will be organized; d) 4 Mini-Hackathon contest will be announced to involve IT professionals in hacking media related issues; e) 4 Hack/Hackers meetings will focus on media-related problems on how to improve media reporting tools

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-03-23
Program:	Media
Grant Number:	17877
Organization:	Meltex, Ltd
Grant Amount:	15000 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to promote free and fair elections through providing objective information to the public on www.a1plus.am web resource. The project will have several components: a. civic journalism part “With your eyes”, which is space for citizens’ photos, articles and other materials on urgent issues; b. interactive circle “Elections diary”, which will create for all parties and candidates space for providing their information in live regime every day. This program will be available also on YouTube

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-03-24
Program:	Media
Grant Number:	17880
Organization:	Kyavar TV Company, LLC
Grant Amount:	24994 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to provide space for public debate on TV through presenting different opinions related to urgent issues for the country and region. This will be done through preparing and broadcasting 40 live talk shows, each of 40 minutes in prime-time. Journalistic assessments in 3-5 minutes will be done during each program and will present public opinion. Debates between candidates during local government elections in 2012 will be organized and broadcast by TV

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-03-23
Program:	Media
Grant Number:	17875
Organization:	ATHK Hamakarg, Ltd
Grant Amount:	14760 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to ensure transfer civic concerns into political requirements, provide access to the large scope of pre-election information from different political parties and candidates on urgent and actual issues in the country. This will be done through support analytical articles, interviews and interactive discussions. Within the project operative-investigative information during the pre-election campaign and on the day of election will be provided on the web. The network of mobile journalists will be established and actively be working out of office and will send information from the different places of the country. Web resource will be available also in English

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-03-23
Program:	Media
Grant Number:	17874
Organization:	Skizb Media Kentron, LLC
Grant Amount:	19965 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to prepare and broadcast weekly on-line program "Discurs". The on-line program will have focus to upcoming Parliamentarian Elections. Programs also will be broadcast by Youtube, Livestream, Facebook and Armenian Media Group of America TV channel. Participants of the programs will be representatives of political parties, NGOs, Central Election Commission, journalists, experts from different fields

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-03-23
Program:	Media
Grant Number:	17886
Organization:	Investigative Journalists, NGO
Grant Amount:	15000 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to promote freedom of speech, provide alternative and objective information to the public, educate public and raise awareness on different issues through preparing and broadcasting 48 on-line programs. Organization through its webpage and facebook page will disseminate information about the upcoming program, guests and will give opportunity for asking questions. This will be used also to assess the results of the program

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-03-24
Program:	Media
Grant Number:	17876
Organization:	Umbrella, Journalists' International Network, NGO
Grant Amount:	14992 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to offer the readers an opportunity to see, through quality journalism, stories concerning Parliamentary Elections through features, cartoons and political analysis aiming at providing balanced and quality information through news, analytical, comprehensive news and investigative articles, cartoons and photo stories

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-03-23
Program:	Media
Grant Number:	17870
Organization:	Aravot Oratert, LLC
Grant Amount:	15000 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to facilitate effective interaction between the public, political forces and the media, prompting vivid and robust discussions on diverse issues using alternative content; to enhance diversity and pluralism of opinions on pressing issue, thus boosting the freedom of speech in Armenia. These will be done through producing online live talk shows without any bias or polarization and no editorial interference that will bring into light the most pressing issues of public interest; creating a forum for Internet users, where debates and discussions on issues raised in the programs will evolve and highlight issues of public interest and inform the public about the candidates’ platforms, ahead of parliamentary and presidential election, as well as to present them the new mechanisms introduced in the Electoral Code. The most succeeded and significant parts of the discussions will be printed in “Aravot” daily, thus enhancing the access of traditional media users to the discussions. Talk shows will be produced twice a week starting from second month

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-10-30
Program:	Media
Grant Number:	18189
Organization:	Umbrella, Journalists' International Network, NGO
Grant Amount:	15000 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to provide readers with analysis of 2013 Presidential elections through features, cartoons, political analysis, photo stories and a short animation video. The online publication will analyze Presidential candidates’ pre-election platforms, compare them, and analyze to what extent they are realistic beyond populist statements, as well as to analyze methods used by candidates to influence public consciousness. Articles about social and political developments taking place in the country, environmental, human rights, healthcare issues and human stories will be produced. Weekly cartoons on electoral topics, voters’ rights, responsibilities of candidates and other issues will be produced. A short animation video related to the elections will be created

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-10-31
Program:	Media
Grant Number:	18193
Organization:	Investigative Journalists, NGO
Grant Amount:	15000 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to create a unique multimedia online platform on hetq.am website which will support and promote photojournalism and documentary photography, as well as photojournalists in Armenia through new visual methods. Investigative Journalists, NGO will join its experience with Four Plus, a team of three women photographers, in order to reach out to issues with in depth multimedia story-telling and photography. The platform will present audience with coverage of social issues, elections, human rights issues, through the combination of different media in one project. 9 multimedia and 18 photo stories will be prepared and published on hetq.am website

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-10-30
Program:	Media
Grant Number:	18187
Organization:	ATHK Hamakarg, LLC
Grant Amount:	14989 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to provide a platform for discussions on Lragir.am website about important political and social developments taking place in Armenia. Lragir.am will conduct impartial analysis of developments from the context of civil interests to understand those developments. The following columns in Lragir.am will be supported - Rights, Interview, Commentary, and multimedia part “Vox-pop”. Editorial Board will be created to ensure unbiased coverage of news/analysis and professionalism of journalists

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-03-26
Program:	Media
Grant Number:	18029
Organization:	Lori TV, LLC
Grant Amount:	20145 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to ensure accessibility and publicity of the problems through preparing and broadcasting talk shows including representatives of political parties, media, NGOs and experts from different fields. The first part of the project will be devoted to parliamentary elections in Armenia. TV debates organized during this period will cover a number of problems such as ensuring equal conditions for organizing pre-election campaigns for all candidates, preventing corruption cases and illegal influence on voters during pre-election period, violation of the voters’ rights during elections, creating equal conditions for the candidates by media outlets elucidating elections, etc. The project’s second part aims at improving current state of freedom of speech and other fundamental rights and freedoms of a citizen, giving necessary clarifications on the freedom of religion and conscience law and protection of people whose rights have been violated. The project intends to organize 22 TV debates during 6 months. Each TV program will include previously prepared video materials (vox-pops) on the theme of discussion

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-03-26
Program:	Media
Grant Number:	17871
Organization:	EcoLur, Information NGO
Grant Amount:	14880 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to promote principles of "green" democracy into programs of political parties and candidates of Elections in 2012 and 2013. Assessment of government decisions and programs will be done from the prospective of their impact on health and environment. Public discussion of programs of political parties and candidates from the environment protection point of view will be organised

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-03-26
Program:	Media
Grant Number:	17885
Organization:	Tsayg, Ltd.
Grant Amount:	15910 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to support increase public activism in upcoming Elections in May 2012. This will be done through preparing and broadcasting 20 TV programs within interview format; covering of the election’s day, on May 6; preparing and broadcasting 3 social adds on elections

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-04-24
Program:	Media
Grant Number:	17881
Organization:	Housaber CJSC, Yerkir Media TV Company
Grant Amount:	24915 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to provide alternative information to the large public through preparing and broadcasting talk-shows within "Hraparak" TV program. Representatives from different parties will present their parties opinion during the TV discussion. Investigative journalistic materials will be presented related to the discussing topic

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-09-29
Program:	Law
Grant Number:	18051
Organization:	Women's Resource Center
Grant Amount:	15000 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to support the strengthening of legal approach in the activities, addressed to gender based violations and promotion of women's rights. Within the project the organization will handle legal cases directly inside the organization with in-house lawyers and provide direct free legal counseling on the already functioning crisis hotline of the organization. The cases shall be collected into functionally develop case management system for future analysis. Also, trainings will be provided on gender based violence issues for important stakeholders – police and investigators, as well as well awareness raising work organized on gender sensitivity for law students. The work will be done to identify strategic litigation cases

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-09-28
Program:	Law
Grant Number:	18183
Organization:	Advanced Social Technologies, NGO
Grant Amount:	10090 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to conduct an endline household survey in frames of unite for children, save futures program implemented by Save the Children. The baseline survey was conducted in summer of 2010 based on same methodology. The survey will cover representative samples of adult population in project intervention sites and it would be 800. The sample size would be equally distributed between Yerevan and other marzes

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-09-28
Program:	Law
Grant Number:	18048
Organization:	Mission Armenia, NGO
Grant Amount:	20900 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to promote social and health rights protection and facilitate accessibility to rights for the socially vulnerable groups of people through strengthening legal capacity of the Organization. Particularly that shall be achieved through providing legal consulting, soliciting the case at various entities, taking part in the beneficiary law suits in 8 provinces in Armenia. Out of these activities, cases that hamper or hinder the people to exercise their rights/entitled privileges will be identified and addressed through offering suggestions to all parties concerned how to eliminate those problems for the betterment of the right protection. Strategic litigation cases will be identified by the Organization and will be submitted and discussed by the experts from relevant fields

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-03-24
Program:	Law
Grant Number:	17929
Organization:	Protection of Rights without Borders, NGO
Grant Amount:	43150 USD
Purpose:
For gathering and training a group of lawyers and attorneys who will document and respond to election-related problems reported by citizens of Armenia through consultation or other legal assistance as needed. The period for consultation is defined as a week prior, post elections, and the Election Day. Within the grant the following activities will be carried out: mobilization and training of lawyers on election-related legislation, analysis of electoral legislation and preparation of a manual and templates for the lawyers on most frequent electoral violations, provision of free legal aid to citizens and documentation of these violations, filing reports to relevant authorities on instances of violations and initiation and follow-up on court cases. Protection of Rights without Boarders NGO will also mobilize human rights organizations to work closely with the lawyers in providing free legal aid. As a result, a report on full monitoring process with analysis of most frequent violations and handling of the cases will prepared and presented to the public

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-10-29
Program:	Law
Grant Number:	18235
Organization:	Real World, Real People, NGO
Grant Amount:	45000 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to bring to institutional changes on domestic and international level the existing in Armenia law and practice related to the rights of most at risk population and palliative care patients through providing direct legal services to beneficiaries whose rights are largely violated, conducting documentation of their right's violation, revealing and leading strategic litigation cases based on beneficiaries' human rights violation, raising awareness on the human rights among target groups and organizations that deal with issues of most at risk population and palliative care patients and empowering beneficiaries of the project, their family members as well as network NGOs to advocate for the rights of beneficiaries in governmental bodies, state institutions and international community

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-04-30
Program:	Law
Grant Number:	17670
Organization:	Children's Association of Armenia, NGO
Grant Amount:	15722 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to create bases for conducting monitoring of children’s right protection in special institutions with high standards and eliminating/decreasing the problems/omissions in this area in constructive way. Particularly, it is important to reinforce and improve the Monitoring methodology and usage of the monitoring tools, as well as to adopt clearly instructed working style through the monitoring visits to the children’s special schools. Capacity building of monitors to conduct monitoring in a scientific level, as well as to create and maintain database, to prepare reports will contribute to the improvement of work effectiveness of all activities that Monitoring Team is undertaking. The Monitoring team has to present the reviewed Final Report of last year project in correspondence with OSF-Armenia requirements and Experts’ recommendations

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-08-01
Program:	Law
Grant Number:	18050
Organization:	Unison, NGO
Grant Amount:	15000 USD
Purpose:
For the following purpose: to enhance the mechanisms for legal protection of the rights of persons with disabilities (PWD). The protection of the rights of people with disabilities will be done by providing legal consulting for PWDs and their family members in Yerevan and 4 marzes, analyzing the legislation on PWD and international practice. As a result of work with beneficiaries and legislation and practice analysis the strategic litigation cases will be identified to effect the most urgent problems of this field in legislative and implementation levels

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-06-14
Program:	Law
Grant Number:	17634
Organization:	Rule of Law, NGO
Grant Amount:	49683 USD
Purpose:
or the following purposes: to support to enhance of the rule of law by way of strategic litigations and mentorship of human rights advocacy and litigation to the group of beneficiaries. Particularly the program includes 3 components: mentorship (including sessions of training), strategic litigations and advocacy and interactive law-library. The project shall institutionalize the mentorship relationship with legal units of the group of selected NGOs to ensure broader training, support and guiding materials. Within the mentorship concept, the project participants will help the mentees to find the right direction and develop solutions in legal aspects on the problems, appears in each specific field of NGO’s activity, by in-depth substantive and practical legal trainings, joint field activities such as litigations and other thematic advocacy activities, broader technical legal support by use of interactive legal support electronic library. Within the mentorship relationship with selected NGOs, as well self HR activity of the grantee, the participants of the project shall identify the HR issues that can be solved by strategic litigations, apply for it’s expertise by strategic litigation program of the foundation and initiate recommended litigations, bringing them to the best possible strategic results. Within the third component grantee shall establish internet-based electronic law library that will support direct beneficiaries and other interested in legal field persons with guiding materials and legal opinions, as well as provide information on strategic litigations and related issues

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-09-01
Program:	Law
Grant Number:	18049
Organization:	Transparency International Anticorruption Center
Grant Amount:	19000 USD
Purpose:
The grant will be used to attain following 2 objectives by: Objective 1 - to contribute to strengthening of the law enforcement in Armenia. Particularly, this will be achieved through monitoring of performance of law enforcement and sectoral oversight institutions, analysis of findings and development of recommendations for change. Objective 2 - to develop and implement advocacy activities, which will be focused to the reform of electoral legislation prior to the presidential elections of 2013 in order to ensure free suffrage of citizens in line with OSCE/ODIHR recommendations and other international standards. Advocacy activities will include draft amendments to the existing legislation; mobilize support of international organizations, state structures and political forces for the promotion and adoption of those amendments

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-10-12
Program:	Law
Grant Number:	17782
Organization:	Journalists for Human Rights, NGO
Grant Amount:	18620 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to support the legal capacity of the organization. Within the grant project the Organization will research and systemize information for cases related to human rights violations in the army. The legal unit of the organization in cooperation with journalists will contribute to the advocacy activities around strategic litigation cases and develop recommendation for improvement of the rights and security situation in the armed forces. Strategic litigation cases will be initiated during the project implementation, which will be submitted to the OSF-Armenia for expert evaluation. Special media coverage will be organized and used to present cases to large public and pressure to the authorities to be more transparent and accountable, and pay more attention to the situation to the human rights violations in the army

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-07-26
Program:	Law
Grant Number:	18037
Organization:	Investigative Journalists, NGO
Grant Amount:	16200 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to support the legal capacity of professional media NGO by strengthening effective legal unit within NGO with the aim to achieve improved exercise by Investigative Journalists' of their right to freedom of expression. Within the project 2 lawyers shall work with NGO as experts, (one of those will work in full-time basis) screening the publications for vulnerability out of the right to freedom to expression, including for electoral processes concerning the presidential elections in 2013. The lawyers wil also work on increasing the journalists' awareness of the Armenian electoral law and processes, as well as the European Convention standards in this area. The project will also aim to achieve better judicial protection of these rights before both domestic and international courts. Selected strategic cases will be presented to OSF

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-05-31
Program:	HESP
Grant Number:	17809
Organization:	Privatissima, Educational Foundation
Grant Amount:	24800 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to introduce the participants with basics of 2 subjects, i.e., political science and history, combined with thematic lectures (media, gender, IR, etc). The main trend will mostly be the methodology for doing research (whether policy or academic) tied with the introduction to subjects like political science, gender, media, international relations, history. The program will introduce and build the tertiary level students with primary critical thinking skills necessary to succeed in the modern academic and professional world

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-04-10
Program:	Emergency Fund
Grant Number:	17446
Organization:	Dilijan Communities Union
Grant Amount:	14225 USD
Purpose:
For supporting the farmers of Khachardzan community in Tavush province through establishment of an orchard on one hectare land provided by the community for 10 farmer families of the community. The project envisages planting young trees, providing irrigation and putting a fence around the young orchard. The grantee will be also responsible for implementation of the project within the terms of the contract between the grantee and Kachardzan community administration signed on April 4, 2012 ensuring that the land is not alienated to the third party during 20 years

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-09-29
Program:	East East
Grant Number:	18220
Organization:	Helsinki Committee of Armenia
Grant Amount:	19930 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to organize an international conference where the issues on life term prisoners will be discussed together with relevant experts from Eastern Europe and former USSR countries. During the two and a half day conference around 30 international and 30 local experts will be invited to exchange with experience and come up with recommendations which will be later used by the Helsinki Committee of Armenia for further follow up

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-08-31
Program:	Civil Society
Grant Number:	18158
Organization:	Public Informatin and Need of Knowledge, NGO (PINK)
Grant Amount:	4000 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to design and implement advocacy activities focused on promotion and adoption of anti-discrimination legislation in Armenia. The legislation will create equal opportunity for the whole population of Armenia and will protect all rights of minorities in the country. Organization will cooperate with different NGOs, which actively work in the area of rights protection of marginalized groups. Joint strategy for the advocacy campaign will be developed and discussed with partner NGOs

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-08-31
Program:	Civil Society
Grant Number:	18157
Organization:	"Sose" Women Issues, NGO
Grant Amount:	3910 USD
Purpose:
For the following purpose: to conduct advocacy campaign to persuade local authorities to provide free tuition at kindergartens for the children of unemployed women; to directly address those women who are unemployed, who cannot afford to pay for kindergarten expenses, are unable to send their children to kindergarten and so are unable to seek work outside the home. The NGO will organize meetings with the headmasters of the kindergartens, unemployed women, and local stakeholders. The NGO will present the issue to them and explain the importance of their support and the opportunities which may result after the implementation of this project. Also, the NGO will prepare these women to meet with the candidates for local government and voice their support for and approval of the implementation of the “Young and Disadvantaged Children Advocacy Project.” With the help of these meetings and community members, the NGO will prepare a proposal and provide it to the newly elected government members

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-08-31
Program:	Civil Society
Grant Number:	18159
Organization:	Real World, Real People, NGO
Grant Amount:	3820 USD
Purpose:
For the following purpose: For the following purpose: to design and implement actions focus on fighting against Armenian women’ discrimination of access to treatment who is living with HIV. The advocacy of the project will address the husbands and family members of women living with HIV to stop hindering their wives for getting their tests or treatment in time or whenever necessary and also will address women living with HIV to be motivated to take the lead in protecting their rights. Within the project organization will support women living with HIV in organizing their health care processes accompanying them to the doctor

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-08-27
Program:	Civil Society
Grant Number:	18082
Organization:	KASA Swiss Humanitarian Foundation
Grant Amount:	23015 USD
Purpose:
For the following purpose: weekly meetings of young people in Yerevan and Gyumri around a common interest of the group members in so called youth clubs that are animated by volunteer club animators. 3 times per year for 3 days each all the club animators will receive training by “National Pool of Trainers”, which has many years of experience in designing and running non-formal educational activities. There will be 5 seminars/round table discussions during the project, where KASA will invite speakers, Armenians and foreigners, to speak on specific aspects of civil society. Speakers and topics will be discussed with OSF-Armenia and partners. At least four times during the project action day will be reorganized linked to the monthly topic open for all participants of the program. The club animators will also be encouraged to share their experiences and their know-how with young people that want to start a similar activity in their town or village. The twinning activity will be organized with the club animators and project participants of Yerevan

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-09-01
Program:	Civil Society
Grant Number:	18087
Organization:	Republican Headquarters of Student Brigades-Voluntary Service of Armenia (HUJ)
Grant Amount:	5880 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to teach the volunteers to be able to provide relief for urgent needs, care for the children’s physical, educational and spiritual needs, transform their lives by helping them to become full member of their community; to train the young people, volunteers so that they could later invest their gained skills and knowledge in their home countries, local communities, among their peers, friends, neighbors. One of the main priorities of the seminar is to put “different” target groups (orphans and disabled children) together. The methodology of the seminar will be interactive, non-formal, providing spaces for background discussions and reflections. There will be different non-formal training methods used to build a dynamic program to ensure active involvement and participation of the participants: working groups, lectures, role-play games, round table discussions with experts. All working groups will be held under the supervision of local and foreign trainersfacilitators, experienced staff members, active volunteers accompanied by the speeches of child psychologists, directors of orphanages and Rehabilitation centers. All the participants are members and representatives of youth organization with the capacity to work with social disadvantaged youth. During the whole project participants will be able to exchange knowledge and experience. The seminar will take place on September 19-25, 2012

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-04-01
Program:	Civil Society
Grant Number:	18039
Organization:	Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor Office
Grant Amount:	6885 USD
Purpose:
For promotion of free and fair elections in Armenia. The project includes implementation of the following two main activities: 1. Conducting a long-team observation of pre-election campaigns and provision of equal opportunity for all candidates in Vanadzor through monitoring of mass media publications, TV programs, public meetings with constituencies, canvassing meetings at different institutions and use of administrative resources; 2. Conducting a short-term observation during the Election Day which will include observation of Local electoral committee work organization (before opening the voting stations), voting procedure, calculation of the ballots. For that reason 69 short-term observers will be recruited from targeted areas (44 in Yerevan, 37 in Vanadzor, 25 in Ijevan, and 7 in Gyumri)

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-09-26
Program:	Civil Society
Grant Number:	18094
Organization:	Mandate, NGO
Grant Amount:	66220 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to monitor the efficiency and operation of political parties/alliance activities within the National Assembly. The main objective is to promote accountability of Parliament as a legislative, political and representative body. The project objectives are: to find out to what extent and how the Parliament is going to implement its main operations; how much it operates as an independent branch in interaction with other branches of power; to what degree if at all, it can act as a counterbalance; and to what extent accepted legislation is consistent with existing problems of the country. Another objective is to present activities of political parties in quantitative indicators, statistical data to assess effectiveness, consistency of factions. The website will be updated on a daily basis with new statistical data, which will be disseminated throughout the various social media channels (facebook, twitter, youtube). Monthly analytical reporting will also follow

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-10-22
Program:	Civil Society
Grant Number:	18180
Organization:	Transparency International Anticorruption Center
Grant Amount:	105000 USD
Purpose:
The project has three components. The specific goal of the first component is to support accountability and transparency of upcoming Presidential Elections in 2013 through campaign finance monitoring. The objective of campaign finance monitoring is to assess how the electoral system is designed vs. how it operates in practice. The Project will gather information on cases of campaign-finance-related (including misuse of administrative resources) misadministration and corruption; facilitate transparency of electoral processes; raise public awareness and present to the large public and publicly discuss proposed improvements to the legislation and practice. The specific goal of the second component is also to contribute to the conduct of fair elections in Armenia and by that enhance the trust of the population towards elections. This goal will be achieved through control the accuracy of the process and results of voting in all precincts, analyze possible instances of irregularities and fraud during voting, widely disseminate the results of that analysis, and assess the impact of irregularities and fraud on the outcome of the presidential elections. The third component will monitor and assess of how the procurement system of Armenia is designed vs. how it operates in practice. Such monitoring will include the study of selection processes, observation of complaint mechanisms. In addition, Project will communicate with the TI Secretariat in Berlin to share experiences in procurement monitoring

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-03-23
Program:	Civil Society
Grant Number:	17663
Organization:	Communities Finance Officers Association
Grant Amount:	9980 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to monitor and evaluate the local self-government reforms in Armenia, to provide continuation of such reforms monitoring and evaluation process and support an effective implementation of these reforms. The Project objectives include preparation, publication and presentation of the report on local self-government reforms in Armenia for 2011. This monitoring will include data collection and analysis, examination of the correspondent legislation and programs on local self-government

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-03-22
Program:	Civil Society
Grant Number:	17826
Organization:	Tufenkian Foundation
Grant Amount:	56000 USD
Purpose:
Tufenkian Foundation (TF) in cooperation with Women’s Resource Center (WRC) is concerned with combating gender stereotypes and misconceptions on a grass-root level and changing attitudes in the mass base in order to tackle the issue of gender-based violence. The project seeks to focus on community-level awareness raising on women’s issues and empowerment of women with knowledge about healthy relationships based on partnership rather than control. It intends to challenge patriarchal narratives and shape opinions and perceptions through evidence-based campaigning. For that matter, the project takes as its starting point the need for a comprehensive study on gender roles and healthy relationship perceptions amongst the young people born or educated post 1991. The second phase of the project envisages grass-root awareness raising campaigns (for 500 participants in 6 locations) such as round table discussions, traveling exhibits (by Sara Anjargolian) and video competition, which based on the results of the study will address common misconceptions, stereotypes, and myths. The third phase will focus on bringing together empowered women in each community to establish a Coalition of Women Activists that will carry on advocacy activities on specific topics relevant for their communities. Tufenkian's second project entitled "Capacity Building for Social Movements in Armenia" aims to assist social movements in Armenia in the process of increasing their transparency and improving outreach through support to development of a communication strategy. The project covers production, publication and dissemination of awareness raising, outreach materials and PSAs on environmental issues

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-04-01
Program:	Civil Society
Grant Number:	17822
Organization:	Transparency International Anticorruption Center
Grant Amount:	53020 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to promote good governance in Armenia in its political, economic and social development processes. The monitoring will enable to enhance the trust of the citizens towards elections and make more accountable the members of electoral commissions. Project will include: also raising awareness of stakeholders through exposure to monitoring results via the relevant page on TIAC web-site and mass media; presentation and dissemination of Project findings; draft recommendations for improvement of legislation, procedures and enforcement related to elections in Armenia. These recommendations are going to be promoted through advocacy and lobbying efforts, conducted by TIAC in possible cooperation with its partner NGOs, as well as other interested parties; 2) to reinforce civic monitoring efforts of parliamentary elections in Armenia through popularization of the iDitord.org web portal - the Project will include 20 training sessions for 500 NGO representatives, journalists and civil activists in the regions of Armeia and Yerevan. Duration of each training session will be 3 hours. The training will be composed of two parts: technical - description of the iDitord.org portal, tools of reporting and tracing the violations reports and tools to share the information registered on the portal in the social networks; and elections monitoring - brief description of the electoral law and possible violations. Participants will be encouraged to share the information gained during the trainings through their networks

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-02-02
Program:	Civil Society
Grant Number:	17440
Organization:	A.D. Sakharov Armenian Human Rights Protection Center
Grant Amount:	Grant Amount:
Purpose:
For enhancing the civic activism in protection of human rights and public interest in regions of RA and creation of the National Human Rights Network’s Regional Hub model. The project envisages protection and promotion of human rights via free legal aid/consulting and advocating; increasing the activity and networking capacities of local civil society representatives and promoting citizen engagement in community government via awareness raising, educational trainings, technical, methodological, informational and organizational assistance; conducting a constant monitoring of HR situation in the target regions, as well as monitoring of activities of the local self-government; prepare and present to public the reports of the monitoring; set up and organize the work of the Human rights Network’s regional hub in Gyumri

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-04-23
Program:	Arts&Culture
Grant Number:	17849
Organization:	City Research Center, NGO
Grant Amount:	14000 USD
Purpose:
The project aims to bring together participants from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey into direct contact in a Georgian village with mixed population of Armenians, Georgians, Azerbaijanis for 12 days, where they will do a research and online registration of the cultural practices from different hidden and underrepresented social and ethnic groups. Seminars and trainings on human rights, democracy, and intercultural dialogue by the experts will be conducted. These activities will help to improve relations and get rid of stereotypes and prejudices nourished for decades within the societies. Advocacy and presentation of the project "Pathways to Cultural Spaces" and screening of the film "ber_A_ber" will be organized in different organizations and institutions within the various cities of the Caucasian region. During the project it is also planned to conduct a survey on various cultural specifics and similarities and present them in a web site www.culturalcaucasus.org

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-02-01
Program:	Arts&Culture
Grant Number:	17823
Organization:	Naregatsi Art Institute
Grant Amount:	29921 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to strengthen Armenian Civil Society and Artistic Community by implementing a broad series of events targeted at those groups of artists and spheres of artistic activity that were defined and justified as neglected and vulnerable. The project will implement altogether 90 concerts, exhibitions, master classes, meetings, films screenings and other cultural events in the spheres of contemporary classical music, early European and Baroque music, traditional and ethnic music, film music, electronic music, improvisation, new media, documentary film, animation and forms in contemporary visual arts, and will feature those social groups that are defined and justified as vulnerable and/or neglected (as young and emerging professionals, the artists in the regions, communities of people with disabilities, ethnic minorities and children). More attention will be given to the events featuring the artists in the regions and trainings for Nаrеgatsi Art Institute staff as capacity building and sustainability components

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-04-01
Program:	Arts&Culture
Grant Number:	17900
Organization:	Art Laboratory, NGO
Grant Amount:	10150 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to organize two exhibitions called “Reading Tumanyan - five thousands dram” and “The choice of art and art of choice” in Yerevan and in the regions of Armenia during pre and post election periods. The first exhibition, through installations, street art and video art will raise awareness on pre-election bribes, the second exhibition will involve artists and art students from the region and will be focused on social, ecological and political art. Two exhibitions will be organized in three cities of Armenia - Gyumri, Hrazdan and Vanadzor. It is planned to have one month exhibition in each of these cities

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-09-28
Program:	Arts&Culture
Grant Number:	18219
Organization:	Armenian Center of Contemporary Experimental Art (ACCEA/NPAK)
Grant Amount:	21747 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to develop international and interdisciplinary platforms in the domain of arts and culture in Armenia through public events, which are intended to shape sustainable cultural policy and building networks with other entities and organizations to encourage knowledge sharing in Armenia and beyond. The project is envisioned to be realized at Armenian Center for Contemporary and Experimental Art (ACCEA) by organizing the following key activities; development of adequate platform in the domain of culture and arts (organizing series of forums with skype-sessions, lectures, conferences, seminars, panel and round table discussions, festivals, etc.); facilitating international interaction and establishment of professional contacts between foreign and Armenian specialists-art critics and artists, architects and curators, writers and literary critics, philosophers and sociologists, and others; organizing four sets of forums and conferences during the year; organizing 8 educational seminar during the year based on specific topics; publication of two books (150-200 pages) during the project which will include analysis, reviews, translations, interviews, etc.; organizing research of 20-year archive of ACCEA with rich cultural, artistic and theoretical potential for prompting new discussions and analysis

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-08-31
Program:	Arts&Culture
Grant Number:	18167
Organization:	ICOM National Committee of Armenia
Grant Amount:	14700 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to organize Annual Conference 2012 in Yerevan which will be the first international professional meeting of museum society in the Region. Within the conference two workshops to be run by two experts will be organized for museum workers on two topics: “Writing Text Labels in Museums” and “Writing Text for Digital Media”. The first workshop will be held on October 20, 2012 from 10:00 -13:00, the second workshop will be held on the same day October 20, 2012 from 15:00 – 18:00. Maximum number of participants for each conference workshop will be 20

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-04-01
Program:	Arts&Culture
Grant Number:	17889
Organization:	Center for International Union of Puppeteers-UNIMA Armenia
Grant Amount:	16406 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to carry out 30 open air puppet shows focusing on elections: raising awareness about the electoral rights and highlighting wide spread violations during the elections. The performances will be carried out in Armenia’s regional centers, small towns and villages - three shows in each region/marz

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-02-29
Program:	Arts&Culture
Grant Number:	17845
Organization:	Child Development Foundation
Grant Amount:	10000 USD
Purpose:
For elaboration of two scenarios that will be staged by disabled and non-disabled children. Children will be selected based on criteria developed by the specialists. The inclusive group will include more than 20 children as direct beneficiaries. Through these thematic plays the organization will cover issues such as children’s leadership, the importance of the attention of the society to children’s current problems, and encouraging for equal involvement. The group will have trainings to get prepared for the plays three times a week during four months period. After the trainings, trained artists will stage the plays in different inclusive schools of Yerevan, Vanadzor and Gyumri. Social workers, psychologists, speech therapists will be involved in the project to help the artists prepare the plays and to reflect on certain needs. After the end of the first phase, the trained theatre group will be able to continue staging the plays at schools and kindergartens in different cities to raising awareness on the topic and promote equal rights and opportunities for children

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-04-01
Program:	Arts&Culture
Grant Number:	17910
Organization:	Utopiana.am, NGO
Grant Amount:	15000 USD
Purpose:
For the following purposes: to develop online TV - Ac[TV] which is designed to become an alternative virtual public space to support and promote activist and advocacy groups and movements in Armenia, mainly those standing for environment and public space. Ac[TV] will use art as a critical tool to research, analyze, present and participate in formulating this notion at societal level, as well as becoming an alternative platform for its development. Ac[TV] will be present in the hot spots of public space activism, will observe public spaces, analyze and present individual and collective processes of advocacy work. Ac[TV] will have four major functions: (1) examining the area - daily analysis, reports, etc. on public places, actions in “protest spaces”; (2) anti-advertisement - an advertising parody; (3) human: portrait style films about common but distinguished people with “unusual” lifestyle and progressive values; (4) word: a cultural pavilion of analytical conversations with artists, sociologists and other experts. By the end of the project, produced materials will be developed into an artistic film

Date of Grant Letter:	2012-04-23
Program:	Arts&Culture
Grant Number:	17899
Organization:	Socioscope, NGO
Grant Amount:	14960 USD
Purpose:
The project aims at: 1) revealing challenges that people face in a result of mining through investigative photo-journalism, 2) investigating environmental issues in Syuniq region, and 3) at initiating awareness raising campaign to inform and to motivate people to fight for their rights. Syuniq region is chosen as a case to demonstrate the vivid negative impact of the mining. Many personal-, community- and state-level problems have been reported since 2006 by different parties (NGOs, media, community) in this region. Along with ecological issues, many human rights violations, health and socio-economic problems people encounter in this area. The project will comprehensively capture, but not limit by highliting the following issues: 1) health issues, because of pollution of air and water, 2) landslides, other seismic problems, 3) exploitation of workers, violations of labor rights. A group of 3 professional photojournalists will conduct interviews with different parties (community people, workers, local activists, eco-activists from Yerevan, etc.), participate in local activities, and shoot photos to develop different products - Multimedia, Photos, and Post Cards. The exhibition in Lovers Park, Yerevan will be organized to raise awareness of people and to motivate them to join different initiative groups. Also, in addition of Syunik region mines, photographers will explore other mines too, such as Teghut, Amulsar and will organize exhibitions in at least in two marzes as well