The three objectives of the project are:
- Enhancing mechanisms within local communities to provide public oriented information.
FOICA produced 70 special metallic billboards, which were placed in all targeted 17 communities.
- Public awareness Campaign on the right of access to information as a tool for protection of human rights.
FOICA fulfilled a campaign to urge local authorities to include a separate line in community budgets for financing the obligatory publications and answering the information requests, as well as to establish the positions of Information Officers.
- Monitoring
The monitoring in the FOI field with the following objectives was conducted:
- To summarize 3 years FOI law implementation practice (since 2004) and RA Constitutional new provisions on access to information (since 2005).
- To examine government transparency level through scrutinizing Public Procurement.
- To find out current problems and shortcomings in protection of the right to have access to information linked with other human rights.
- To evaluate and analyze how the persons who requested the information were treated how the government offices and agencies responded, and the nature and quality of the responses to the requests.
