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Success Story 42: Due to FOICA the Concept of the Struggle against Disinformation was Adopted

Thanks to two years of efforts of FOICA and active cooperation with partners, the Concept and the Action Plan of the Struggle against Disinformation 2024-2026 were adopted. The documents were developed by the Freedom of Information Center of Armenia.

Success Story 41: Thanks to the court case FOICA received the requested information

In January 2024, the "Civil Pact" party, after the FOICA appealed to the court, asked to sign a settlement agreement and provided the required information on pre-election fundraising.

Success Story 40: FOICA vs. 7 Municipalities, A 5-Year Judicial Marathon

This is the first court precedent in Armenia, which refers to proactive transparency; the local public authority was obliged to fulfill the duty established by the FOI law to ensure proactive transparency, based on a judicial act.

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Success Story 24

October 16, 2015

The problem of officials responsible for FOI was finally solved. It is a requirement of the RA FOI Law for information holders to have an official responsible for FOI. The FOICA constantly evaluates the abilities and work of information holders and the FOICA’s analyzes identified, that the state bodies do not have a separate official responsible for FOI and the duties of the official responsible for FOI are shared between the department of public relations, the press secretary and sometimes other official as well. As of February 10, 2015 officials responsible for FOI were appointed in all the ministries and all the regional administrations. FOICA compiled a complete list of all these officials with their names, contacts, web site links, legal acts on the appointments and made this document widely available for the civil society and journalists. The complete list of all the nominated FOI officers is available at https://www.foi.am/hy/news/item/1431/ and https://www.foi.am/hy/news/item/1435/ (in Armenian).

FOI Trainings for public officials was included in the Armenian second OGP Action plan (commitment 10th). It is planned to train 200 officials in FOI and anticorruption areas. However, no budget money has been allocated for this purpose in 2015. FOICA is consulting with donor community to find support since this commitment was included in the second action plan by the initiative of the FOICA.

On October 15, 2015, the RA Government adopted a new FOI sub-legal Act regulating new procedure of information provision. This Act coordinated and regulated the work of officials responsible for FOI. The Act establishes that the head of an information holder or an official appointed by an information holder are responsible for freedom of information in their respective institution. The new regulation also states, that the contacts of FOI officers of institutions should be published via official websites of information holders.