total number of grants:
83

Date of Grant Letter:

6/28/2010

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

16874

Organization:

Center for International Union of Puppeteers - UNIMA Armenia

Contact:

Armen  Safaryan

Grant Amount:

24990  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to carry out an International Festival of Puppet Theaters “Toumanian Fairy Tale Day”, which will take place from September 4 - 10 with participation of theatrical troops from Turkey, Denmark, Slovenia, Georgia, Hungary, Lithuania, USA, Belgium, Japan, Czech Republic, Russia, Iran, Belarus and other countries. During the Festival days a great number of entertaining and educating activities are being organized – scenic events and fireworks, master classes in puppet art, a puppet exhibition, daily evening clubs, excursions, video demonstrations and alike. This year, there will be a new type of activity - an open-air joint puppet performance “A Drop of Honey” dedicated to tolerance and peace issue, with participation of all participating theaters. The official web site of the organization will be updated and will provide in deep information about the festival

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Date of Grant Letter:

7/22/2010

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

16637

Organization:

Armenian Foundation for Promotion of Cinema and TV for Children and Youth Rolan Bykov Foundation

Contact:

Nune  Manukyan

Grant Amount:

15530  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to carry out the 6th International Festival for Children and Youth from October 12-16, 2010 in Yerevan and Gyumri and later in 5 regions of Armenia. Participation at the Festival is a good opportunity for Armenian children and youth to watch and become aware of good quality films produced for their age. It is expected to have more than 130 thousand people of different age groups attending the festival. At the end of the festival, the jury, comprised of children and adults, will nominate the best films. This International Festival promotes cooperation between creative film organizations worldwide and gives an opportunity for the exchange of professional experience and for further international projects. During the festival, 6 master classes, workshops, meetings and discussions with famous filmmakers in Yerevan and 2 in Gyumri will be carried out. In the framework of this project, guests and film directors from Italy, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Sweden, Lithuania, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Turkey will participate at the festival this year

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Date of Grant Letter:

5/25/2010

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

16825

Organization:

Naregatsi Art Institute

Contact:

Levon  Eskenian

Grant Amount:

20000  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to encourage the development of art and culture by supporting and empowering the professional and young emerging artists, handicapped and children. Its aim is to free the artists of organizational, financial and physical restrictions, revitalize traditional and ethnic art and create an endlessly growing network of support which would nurture cultural progress. In the scope of this project NAI envisages complementing its mission via providing the artists community(s) of Armenia with the following services: concerts, exhibitions, film screenings, workshops, master classes and audio and video recording of the events and dissemination through production of CDs, DVDs and Internet

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Date of Grant Letter:

8/25/2010

Program:

Civil Soceity

Grant Number:

16681

Organization:

Astghatsolk, NGO

Contact:

Irina  Hovhannisyan

Grant Amount:

7835  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to carry out advocacy trainings for 5 NGOs working in the sphere of children rights from Vardenis, Chambarak, Stepanavan, Vanadzor and Ijevan in order to strengthen their advocacy skills before local self-government bodies; to carry out a comparative analysis of the state budget of 2010-2011 allocated for children’s rights for above mentioned cities; to publish 250 examples of the analysis and disseminate it in the respective cities; to organize 5 community meetings with NGO to discuss the results of the analysis and its correspondence to the Development Program of these cities; to address letters from the names of the coalition members to the mayors of those cities urging to include special budget line for the children with special needs in the budget of 2011; to organize 5 meetings with the Council of Aldermen, mass media representatives, NGOs, parents to discuss the possible actions to ensure better protection for children with special needs; to organize a big conference with participation of all interested parties and government representatives

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Date of Grant Letter:

11/9/2010

Program:

Civil Soceity

Grant Number:

16892

Organization:

American University of Armenia

Contact:

Narine  Movsisyan

Grant Amount:

5001  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to implement a mass media information campaign to raise the public awareness about the current policy, inform public opinion about the health impact of exposure to tobacco smoke and facilitate further strengthening of smoke-free legislation in Armenia; to organize policy workshop to discuss results of the monitoring camopaign and make recommendations to the decision making community on drafting a new bill and improving the enforcement mechanisms

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Date of Grant Letter:

11/22/2010

Program:

Civil Society

Grant Number:

16801

Organization:

Communities Finance Officers Association

Contact:

Vahan  Movsisyan

Grant Amount:

20183  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: through the monitoring of the budgeting process assess transparency of budgeting process, accountability of local authorities, public participation to the decision making and effectiveness of municipal service provision, find ways to increase those and improve the qulity of governance. Activities of the project include: monitoring the budget process of Yerevan to assess the transparency, accountability and level of public participation at all stages; evaluate the budget structure aimed at effective municipal service delivery; discuss the revealed obstacles for transparency, accountability, public participation; prepare a policy brief for the government and the local authorities; prepare a document which will be guiding the future initiatives of CSO's in area of local budget monitoring

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Date of Grant Letter:

12/24/2010

Program:

Civil Society

Grant Number:

17062

Organization:

Fund Against Violation of Law

Contact:

Zhora  Khachatryan

Grant Amount:

39000  USD

Purpose:

For the following objectives: monitoring of violation practices in the field of labor rights protection via free legal aid provision, litigation of strategic cases in the sphere of labor rights, establishing of a “feed back” with workforce at enterprises and conducting of awareness raising and PR campaigns, roundtables, seminars for potential workers and youth on basic labor rights and entrepreneurship, publication of educational brochures and articles in press, cooperation with relevant state agencies. The grant envisaged for preparation of systematic information bulletins and videos on the work of the State Labor Agency (SLA) and their dissemination via mass-media; referral and follow up of complaints received from citizens to the SLA, requesting information and giving feedback on SLA’s work, formulation of suggestions on improvement of it work; holding public debates around SLA’s work; working out legislative initiatives on the Law on SLA; systemic examination of reports elaborated by SLA

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Date of Grant Letter:

9/14/2010

Program:

Civil Society

Grant Number:

16882

Organization:

Mandate, NGO

Contact:

Lusine  Vasilyan

Grant Amount:

70850  USD

Purpose:

For monitoring of the fall 2010 and spring 2011 sessions of the National Assembly, preparation, publication and presentation of the monitoring report; regular and timely update of the www.parliamentmonitoring.am website. Within the scope of the project the NGO, in cooperation with experts from Partnership for Open Society Initiative will analyze the activity of individual MPs as well as fractions, prepare analytical materials on the platform priorities of the political parties and monitor the consistency of their actions with the platforms. The www.parliamentmonitoring.am website will serve as a space to provide the general public with information on the draft laws passing National Assembly hearings, voting records of the Members of Parliament, draft laws proposed by them as well as will feature expert opinions on the laws; the website will be upgraded with a search engine enabling easy access to the MPs voting records through various keywords

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Date of Grant Letter:

8/19/2010

Program:

Civil Society

Grant Number:

16859

Organization:

Investigative Journalists, NGO

Contact:

Edik  Baghdasaryan

Grant Amount:

33460  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to carry out journalistic investigations in the rural places of Armenia in order to further investigate the impact of the financial-economic crisis, specifically loan-taking processes effecting on rural people. The project will more focus on those families who lost their houses and lands because of agricultural bank loans. The project will also investigate transparency of state budget spending and the effectiveness and transparency of its anti-economic projects. The investigative stories will also cover the issues of transparency, accountability and effectiveness of the organizations funded in the framework of the adopted State Anti-Crisis Action Plan to carry out anti-crisis projects in the regions of Armenia. The project targets most vulnerable population, including but not limited to children, women and old people. During the project implementation, 33 investigative articles and 220 news stories covering the above mentioned issues will be published in two languages in www.hetq.am online journal and in “Hetq” weekly newspaper with 4000 copies. 1100 copies will be distributed with “Hetq” newspaper and 2900 inserts will be disseminated free of charge in Yerevan and in the regions of Armenia. The project also plans to organize 6 round-table discussions to highlight the cases and issues revealed during the project

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Date of Grant Letter:

8/26/2010

Program:

Civil Society

Grant Number:

16766

Organization:

Socioscope, Social Research and Consultancy Center, NGO

Contact:

Sona  Manusyan

Grant Amount:

9267  USD

Purpose:

For the following purposes: to carry out a professional training for experts in latest international trends in monitoring methods, including mass media monitoring, data processing, reporting, and digital advocacy, in order to reinforce civic control and make the results of mass media monitoring more visible to the public at large

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