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This report outlines key trends in grantmaking at the Women’s Fund in 2025. 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.
Within its “Strengthening Resilient Women’s Rights Organizations to Advance Gender Equality in Armenia project funded by KVINFO, in the period of August – September, 2025, the Women’s Fund Armenia (hereinafter referred to as WFA) implemented a survey and further qualitative assessment among its partner organizations on the topic of “Advocacy skills among partner organizations in the fields of combating gender-based violence and labor rights”.
While advocacy has been considered one of the primary methods for solving or preventing problems in many countries around the world, many organizations in Armenia have only been able to study and apply advocacy as a method for legislative amendment in recent years. The reason in many cases is, of course, the oppressive political situation and wars, which are well-known means of silencing the voice of democratic forces in a country.
In 2025, Women’s Fund Armenia continued to strengthen feminist movements across Armenia through flexible funding, capacity support, and collective action. Throughout the year, we supported grassroots initiatives, regional groups, and women-led organizations working on labor rights, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and responses to gender-based violence. The report reflects sustained commitment to feminist values, accountability, and long-term structural change.
This is the brief summary of a research that’s based on theoretical approaches to interpersonal and structural vulnerability, based on the position that vulnerability is not determined solely by individual characteristics, but by the influence of differential and stigmatizing mechanisms in socioeconomic systems.
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.
