Media and Civic Participation
By Programs
By Years
Grant Amount: 17,808,000 AMD
Purpose: The project aims to increase the interest and participation of young people in Armenia in the 2026 electoral processes through debates held in local communities and the capital, while raising public awareness of the importance of voting and democratic values. The program is implemented within the framework of the project “Partnership for Safeguarding Democratic Integrity” funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
Grant Amount: 6,678,000 AMD
Purpose: The project aims to strengthen transparency, competitiveness, and informed participation ahead of 2026 parliamentary elections by relaunching the Media Center – as vibrant civic and media platform for rapid public deliberation and coordinated communication. The program is implemented within the framework of the project “Partnership for Safeguarding Democratic Integrity” funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
Grant Amount: 19,067,916 AMD
Purpose: The project aims to promote democratic participation and electoral integrity by strengthening community-level capacities to identify, document, and respond to manipulative narratives and coercive practices, thereby reducing the impact of disinformation and voter intimidation in target 14 communities. The program is implemented within the framework of the project “Partnership for Safeguarding Democratic Integrity” funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
Grant Amount: 3,391,200 AMD
Purpose: The program will provide emergency institutional support to the Investigative Journalists, NGO to help address financial challenges resulting from global factors. This support will enable the organization to continue its Media Factory educational project, sustaining journalism education, fact-checking, and investigative reporting for two months while working on a more sustainable development strategy.
Grant Amount: 500,000 AMD
Purpose: The project aims to explore the level of political participation among youth in Armenia using focus group methodology, examine successful international practices, and develop educational and public communication tools to promote informed youth engagement in democratic processes.
Grant Amount: 9,592,644 AMD
Purpose: The project aims to contribute to combating disinformation related to domestic developments in Armenia and its relations with other countries through monitoring of the information flow, fact-checking, and publications. The initiative will produce materials that seek to address and debunk fake and manipulative narratives disseminated by various external and local sources, particularly focusing on harmful discourses targeting different communities living in Armenia.
Grant Amount: 10,139,593 AMD
Purpose: The project goal is to provide a media platform for journalists from the migrant communities to cover relevant issues in South Caucasus for Russian-speaking audiences and confront authoritarian propaganda and misinformation through fact-based media content. Within the project objectives, Lava Media, evolving from Aliq․Ru (Aliq Media’s Russian Edition), will produce a diverse array of content that includes analytical and feature articles, videos, talk shows, and infographics. The thematic focus will span the political, economic, and social landscapes of Armenia and its neighboring countries, ensuring comprehensive coverage of the region's most relevant issues.
Grant Amount: 1,940,800 AMD
Purpose: The project aims to improve the effective management of public funds aimed at eliminating damages caused by floods in Tavush Marz in May 2024. In particular the project will help to increase the level of transparency and public accountability of local self-government bodies, to raise public awareness and community engagement in disaster risk management. The project specifically envisages the implementation of the monitoring of the expenditures by the local self-government bodies of Ijevan, Dilijan, Noyemberyan, the holding of community discussions and the organization of a public awareness campaign in the region.
Grant Amount: 1,940,800 AMD
Purpose: The goal of the project is to contribute to the elimination of the consequences of recent natural disaster in the settlements of Lori and Tavush regions, to highlight the invisible problems and ensure their wide publicity at the local and national levels through reports. Within the framework of the project, the "Voice of the Citizen" media platform will highlight and present the socio-economic, agricultural, infrastructural, environmental problems caused by the disaster and the gaps in the administrative processes aimed at eliminating these consequences. The project also aims to mobilize the local civil society organizations, the youth, and the farmers to ensure publicity for above-mentioned issues and for advocacy of rights protection.
Grant Amount: 1,940,800 AMD
Purpose: "Resilient Tavush" project aims to increase the level of awareness and resilience of the population of Tavush region, particularly local NGOs, youth organizations and local self-government bodies, in the disaster risk management, especially after the last natural disaster that hit the region. Seminars on disaster risk management will be organized in the 4 enlarged communities of Tavush region: Ijevan, Dilijan, Berd, Noyemberyan, involving representatives of local self-government bodies, local NGOs, and youth centers. The program envisages preparation and distribution of programs based on the seminars on Tavush Media TV, website and social networks.