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In recent years, Armenia has become an attractive destination for migrants arriving from India, with entry rising from 22,197 in 2021 to 57,100 in 2023. While previously the primary motivation was education, in recent years Indian citizens have also been coming to Armenia for employment purposes.
In recent years, the Women’s Fund Armenia has provided grants and implemented activities aimed at enhancing the resilience of its partner organizations and groups. These activities have been diverse, and the grants requested by the partner organizations have also varied accordingly.
Resilience assessment helps to understand how well organizations, groups/initiatives, and individuals are able to anticipate crises, challenges, or long-term pressures, as well as how effectively they can respond to and recover from them—whether those challenges are social, political, economic, environmental, or of another nature.
On March 22 , a meeting with the teenagers was held at the premises of the Women’s Fund Armenia. The purpose of the meeting was to evaluate the projects implemented by teens through the Fund’s financial support. This is another year of the Fund’s cooperation with teenage girls, and it continues to prove its effectiveness and relevance to existing needs. The initiatives implemented within the funding varied from education to art, body positivity, and women’s rights.
In this article, through conversations with organizations and activists working on women’s and LGBTIQ+ issues in Armenia, we attempt to explore how collective trauma is understood, named, and addressed within these communities. How do they define “collective trauma”? Which aspects are prioritized? And more importantly— through a feminist lens—how does this trauma impact both the individual and the collective, and what kinds of care, resistance, or healing practices are emerging in response?
This report outlines key trends in grantmaking at the Women’s Fund in 2024. The report is intended for both internal and external audiences. It serves as a resource for internal and external reporting, as well as an informational brochure for a wide range of stakeholders, including staff, partners, organizations, current and potential donors, and board members. As part of the Fund’s commitment to public accountability, this document also provides transparency about its grantmaking activities.
The aim of the partnership assessment was to outline the strengths and weaknesses of the partner relationships established between the Fund and sub-grant groups.
Between 2022 and 2023, Women’s Fund Armenia conducted 33 interviews to understand the current state of the women’s/feminist movement in Armenia. Alongside these in-depth interviews, a movement capacity assessment tool developed by the Global Fund for Women was utilized.
You can read the results of the research in this publication.
This collection includes stories of feminist strength and solidarity in times of crisis from around the world.
We do hope that this collection will once again reinsure all of us that in dramatic times where people, communities and nations lose their equilibrium, there is still hope that comes from collective care, solidarity, and the willingness to share each other’s pain.
This study aims to understand its importance in partnership relations, to identify the most existing practices, challenges and opportunities among partners for further integration of collective care approaches.
In September 2023, the usual course of the projects implemented by the NGOs was disturbed by the rapid displacement of over 100,000 people from Artsakh to Armenia within 48 hours. This event created a significant humanitarian crisis that required immediate and coordinated response from various organizations, including NGOs partnering with Women’s Fund Armenia. WFA’s role in managing this situation was crucial in providing support to the displaced people from Artsakh during the crisis. Thanks to the rapid funding opportunities provided by the WFA, the local NGOs were able to meet the urgent needs of the displaced people relocated in mostly all regions of Armenia.
Grant-making trends of 2023 at the Women’s Fund Armenia aims to provide a concise overview of the grant-making trends observed at the Women’s Fund Armenia throughout the year 2023.
This document is crafted for both internal and external stakeholders, including the team members, donors, and the broader community associated with the Women’s Fund Armenia.
