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75. USAID Strategic Communications Support Activity

SCSA supports the Government of Armenia in building effective streamlined, data-driven, and citizen-centered strategic communications systems, capacity, and practices.

74․ USAID/Armenia Justice Sector Support Project

The FOICA is responsible for the communication components of the JSS Project. The Project started in October 2022 and will end in September 2027.

73. Media Program in Armenia

The project aims to strengthen the capacities and skill sets of media professionals in Armenia on FOI, PDP, and beneficial ownership transparency reforms to investigate and report on matters of public interest.

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52. Media literacy and Fact checking capacity development for public officials of the RA Government (GOAM) and the National Assembly of Armenia

May 4, 2021

The Project was supported by International Republican Institute (IRI). The Project duration: 2 months. The Project started on March 1, 2021, and ended on April 30, 2021.

The primary goal of the Project was to promote the fight against online disinformation in Armenia.

The project objectives were:

Empowering the public officials of the GOAM, members and staff of the Parliament with media literacy and fact checking basic knowledge,
Supporting public officials to seek, receive and distribute accurate and reliable information.

In the framework of the project were done following activities:

Developing media literacy and fact-checking training curriculum for public officials’ training.
Organizing and conducting series of training for 100 public administration officials, 10 National Assembly MPs, and 10 staff members.

The major outcome of the project was increased capacity of the officials in fact-checking tools and fight against disinformation. They became aware of how to avoid fake news distribution and are able to obtain plain practical tools to break the chain of disinformation.