2012 թվականի դրամաշնորհների ցանկ

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:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-03-23

Program:

Women

Grant Number:

17525

Organization:

Association of Women with University Education

Grant Amount:

49490 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-10-31

Program:

Women

Grant Number:

18071

Organization:

Sose Women Issues, NGO

Grant Amount:

22236 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-05-29

Program:

Women

Grant Number:

18070

Organization:

Media Partners, CJSC

Grant Amount:

29474 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-07-16

Program:

Women

Grant Number:

18064

Organization:

Tufenkian Foundation

Grant Amount:

52000 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-07-27

Program:

Health

Grant Number:

18150

Organization:

Armenian Center for Health Initiatives

Grant Amount:

46265 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-09-26

Program:

National Education

Grant Number:

18146

Organization:

Jinishian Memorial Foundation

Grant Amount:

41350 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-05-22

Program:

National Education

Grant Number:

17923

Organization:

American University of Armenia

Grant Amount:

16235 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-05-30

Program:

Media

Grant Number:

17878

Organization:

Public Journalism Club

Grant Amount:

20309 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-03-23

Program:

Media

Grant Number:

17877

Organization:

Meltex, Ltd

Grant Amount:

15000 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-03-24

Program:

Media

Grant Number:

17880

Organization:

Kyavar TV Company, LLC

Grant Amount:

24994 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-03-23

Program:

Media

Grant Number:

17875

Organization:

ATHK Hamakarg, Ltd

Grant Amount:

14760 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-03-23

Program:

Media

Grant Number:

17874

Organization:

Skizb Media Kentron, LLC

Grant Amount:

19965 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-03-23

Program:

Media

Grant Number:

17886

Organization:

Investigative Journalists, NGO

Grant Amount:

15000 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-03-24

Program:

Media

Grant Number:

17876

Organization:

Umbrella, Journalists' International Network, NGO

Grant Amount:

14992 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-03-23

Program:

Media

Grant Number:

17870

Organization:

Aravot Oratert, LLC

Grant Amount:

15000 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-10-30

Program:

Media

Grant Number:

18189

Organization:

Umbrella, Journalists' International Network, NGO

Grant Amount:

15000 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-10-31

Program:

Media

Grant Number:

18193

Organization:

Investigative Journalists, NGO

Grant Amount:

15000 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-10-30

Program:

Media

Grant Number:

18187

Organization:

ATHK Hamakarg, LLC

Grant Amount:

14989 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-03-26

Program:

Media

Grant Number:

18029

Organization:

Lori TV, LLC

Grant Amount:

20145 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-03-26

Program:

Media

Grant Number:

17871

Organization:

EcoLur, Information NGO

Grant Amount:

14880 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-03-26

Program:

Media

Grant Number:

17885

Organization:

Tsayg, Ltd.

Grant Amount:

15910 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-04-24

Program:

Media

Grant Number:

17881

Organization:

Housaber CJSC, Yerkir Media TV Company

Grant Amount:

24915 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-09-29

Program:

Law

Grant Number:

18051

Organization:

Women's Resource Center

Grant Amount:

15000 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-09-28

Program:

Law

Grant Number:

18183

Organization:

Advanced Social Technologies, NGO

Grant Amount:

10090 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-09-28

Program:

Law

Grant Number:

18048

Organization:

Mission Armenia, NGO

Grant Amount:

20900 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-03-24

Program:

Law

Grant Number:

17929

Organization:

Protection of Rights without Borders, NGO

Grant Amount:

43150 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-10-29

Program:

Law

Grant Number:

18235

Organization:

Real World, Real People, NGO

Grant Amount:

45000 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-04-30

Program:

Law

Grant Number:

17670

Organization:

Children's Association of Armenia, NGO

Grant Amount:

15722 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-08-01

Program:

Law

Grant Number:

18050

Organization:

Unison, NGO

Grant Amount:

15000 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-06-14

Program:

Law

Grant Number:

17634

Organization:

Rule of Law, NGO

Grant Amount:

49683 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-09-01

Program:

Law

Grant Number:

18049

Organization:

Transparency International Anticorruption Center

Grant Amount:

19000 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-10-12

Program:

Law

Grant Number:

17782

Organization:

Journalists for Human Rights, NGO

Grant Amount:

18620 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-07-26

Program:

Law

Grant Number:

18037

Organization:

Investigative Journalists, NGO

Grant Amount:

16200 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-05-31

Program:

HESP

Grant Number:

17809

Organization:

Privatissima, Educational Foundation

Grant Amount:

24800 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-04-10

Program:

Emergency Fund

Grant Number:

17446

Organization:

Dilijan Communities Union

Grant Amount:

14225 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-09-29

Program:

East East

Grant Number:

18220

Organization:

Helsinki Committee of Armenia

Grant Amount:

19930 USD

Purpose:

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:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-08-31

Program:

Civil Society

Grant Number:

18157

Organization:

"Sose" Women Issues, NGO

Grant Amount:

3910 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-08-31

Program:

Civil Society

Grant Number:

18159

Organization:

Real World, Real People, NGO

Grant Amount:

3820 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-08-27

Program:

Civil Society

Grant Number:

18082

Organization:

KASA Swiss Humanitarian Foundation

Grant Amount:

23015 USD

Purpose:

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:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-04-01

Program:

Civil Society

Grant Number:

18039

Organization:

Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor Office

Grant Amount:

6885 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-09-26

Program:

Civil Society

Grant Number:

18094

Organization:

Mandate, NGO

Grant Amount:

66220 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-10-22

Program:

Civil Society

Grant Number:

18180

Organization:

Transparency International Anticorruption Center

Grant Amount:

105000 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-03-23

Program:

Civil Society

Grant Number:

17663

Organization:

Communities Finance Officers Association

Grant Amount:

9980 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-03-22

Program:

Civil Society

Grant Number:

17826

Organization:

Tufenkian Foundation

Grant Amount:

56000 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-04-01

Program:

Civil Society

Grant Number:

17822

Organization:

Transparency International Anticorruption Center

Grant Amount:

53020 USD

Purpose:

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:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-04-23

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

17849

Organization:

City Research Center, NGO

Grant Amount:

14000 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-02-01

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

17823

Organization:

Naregatsi Art Institute

Grant Amount:

29921 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-04-01

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

17900

Organization:

Art Laboratory, NGO

Grant Amount:

10150 USD

Purpose:

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:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-08-31

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

18167

Organization:

ICOM National Committee of Armenia

Grant Amount:

14700 USD

Purpose:

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:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-02-29

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

17845

Organization:

Child Development Foundation

Grant Amount:

10000 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-04-01

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

17910

Organization:

Utopiana.am, NGO

Grant Amount:

15000 USD

Purpose:

Date of Grant Letter:

2012-04-23

Program:

Arts&Culture

Grant Number:

17899

Organization:

Socioscope, NGO

Grant Amount:

14960 USD

Purpose: