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. 

The aim of the partnership assessment was to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the partner relationships established between the Fund and sub-grant groups.

The main objectives of the assessment were to assess the level of satisfaction of the partners with their partnership with the Fund, to identify challenges and areas for improvement in the established partnerships.

Read the summary of our work during 2023.

As we know, that only 1% of financial resources aimed at gender equality in the world go to women’s organizations, as well as having high regard to some previous research studies, discussion outcomes and needs assessments by partner organizations, the Women’s Fund Armenia has initiated another research that tackles the question of where the funds or financial resources intended for women’s organizations and aimed at ensuring their dignified activities are.

The ‘Femstory: Feminist oral stories archive’  project’s interviewers collected five stories from women human rights defenders who had experiences with anti-gender attaks and backclash due to the nature of their jobs. The collection includes short summaries of the collected oral stories, excerpts of which were also published in Armenian to encourage feminist researchers in this field to take advantage of the oral history’s methods richness and research the state of the Armenian women’s movement from a more critical standpoint.

This publication of FemTalks is a collection of articles based on the public lectures and discussions conducted by Women’s Fund Armenia (WFA) in 2022. In conjunction with the assistance to women’s and feminist organizations and initiatives in Armenia, one of the main missions of WFA is the development of critical feminist discourse, as well as the introduction to the trends in contemporary feminist theory and research.

Women’s Fund Armenia, Women’s Fund in Georgia, Ukrainian Women’s Fund, and filia.die frauenstiftung (Germany) commissioned the assessment of institutional and team resilience in their respective organizations, as well as partners. The goal of the assessment was to inform the participating four women’s funds and their respective partners, women’s rights organizations in Armenia, Georgia, Germany and Ukraine about their readiness to deal with crises. The objective of the assessment is to measure the existing needs regarding institutional (i.e., financial, psycho-social, organizational) and team resilience.

The following is the summary of the research results for Armenia. 

Although collective care as a concept is a relatively new approach for civil society, the elements of collective care have always been used, especially among women’s organizations and grassroot initiatives.

The following is the summary of needs assessment carried out among the partners of the WFA in 2022.