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• Our office: London, with a Yerevan-based coordinator.
• Our areas of focus: media development, political participation and accountability, information disorder.
• Our partners: , , (FCDO),

About our work

In Armenia, as well as in Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine, we are working in partnership with Thomson Reuters Foundation, other journalism bodies and local and national media partners in our Eastern Neighbourhood programme funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. We aim to improve access to high-quality, accurate, unbiased, and engaging content that tackles disinformation, stimulates debate, exposes corruption, and supports democracy, inclusion, and accountability in a complex and politically fragile context.

In all four countries, we support the production of high-quality and accurate information, while delivering a training programme for journalists that includes mentoring and strengthening editorial skills.

Previously in Armenia, we have worked closely with local media Hetq and Factor TV on issues such as editorial development and principles, journalistic standards, content production, organisational development and financial viability as part of our European Media Facility project with Deutsche Welle Akademie and the Democracy Development Foundation (formerly Open Society Foundations Armenia), aiming to support an independent, professional, innovative and financially sustainable media sector.

Through our previous Independent Media in Eastern Partnership Countries project, we provided support to over 20 public interest media outlets across Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia and Moldova with editorial and technical skills and mentoring, as well as the provision of equipment, and offering viable business models to reflect the audiences’ needs.