“Empower Her: Breaking Barriers, Ending Violence”

Duration: 01.07.2024 – 31.01.2025 The goal of the “Empower Her: Breaking Barriers, Ending Violence” subgrant project is to promote the elimination of discrimination and violence against women with disabilities in Armenia through their empowerment and building capacities of women’s rights organizations and support centers to provide quality and accessible services to women and girls with all types of disabilities. Target …

Upskilling digital competences and career management skills of disadvantaged youth

Duration: 01.08.2023-01.01.2025 Goal of the project: Enhance employability and entrepreneurship of disadvantaged youth, including persons with disabilities, and support their active participation in democratic life and labour markets in Georgia, Moldova and Armenia. The above will be achieved through strengthening digital career consultation services and upskilling disadvantaged youth in digital and entrepreneurship competences.  Objectives։ Strengthen existing state and CSO-based employment …

“Women with disabilities – VIP (Vocal, Independent, Proactive)”

Direction-04.2023-31.08.2024 Long term goal of the project is to promote improving the quality of the lives of women and girls with disabilities, including displaced women with disabilities in Armenia. Overall goals of the project are: Promote independent living and economic empowerment of women and girls with disabilities, including displaced women with disabilities. Outcomes Empowered and active women and girls with …

“i-SME+East”

Duration: 01.07-01.12.2023 Project goal to promote the employment of persons with disabilities (PWDs) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) within three countries of the EU Eastern Partnership. The project is co-funded by the German Ministry for Foreign Affairs and is initiated and coordinated by the INTAMT-Academy (Germany). Our fellow partners include “Agate” NGO (Armenia), “Confederation of Employers of Ukraine” (Ukraine), …

“Women with Disabilities Against Violence”

Project Goal To promote eliminating the discrimination and violence against women with disabilities in Armenia through their empowerment and building capacities of women’s rights organizations and service providers to victims of violence to provide quality and accessible services to women with all types of disabilities. Project Objectives To promote eliminate discrimination and violence against women with disabilities To empowerment and …

Barrier-free realization of electoral rights of persons with disabilitiesin Shirak Region

Barrier-free realization of electoral rights of persons with disabilities in Shirak Region sub-grant project is implemented within the framework of the “Elections4All-2021 – Domestic Observations and Citizens Empowerment by Civil Society” project. The Project is implemented by OxYGen Foundation, Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly – Vanadzor, Union of Informed Citizens and Yerevan School of Political Studies. The Project is funded by the …

Towards Inclusive Elections

Duration: 2018 The goal of Towards Inclusive Elections was promote the creation disaggregated data on the political participation of women with disabilities in Armenia through research.  Within the frameworks of the project we carried out a research among 75 women and 75 men with different types of disabilities in Yerevan and in urban and rural areas of Shirak, Lori, Ararat and Armavir Region. …

“Promoting Armenian disability legislation”

November 2017-May 2018 “Agate” Rights Defense Center for Women with Disabilities NGO and Mobility International USA (MIUSA) are implementing “Promoting Armenian disability legislation” project, which covers all regions of Armenia. The goal of the project is to develop mechanisms for adoption and implementation of the draft law on Rights Protection and Social Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities. During the project …

“Effective activities, winning society”

01.08.2017-10.10.2017 The goal of the “Effective activities, winning society” project is to promote the institutional development of “Agate” NGO. During the project, trainings and consultations were organized and conducted to strengthen “Agate” NGO and build its employees capacities. During the project, the organization’s 2018-2022 strategic plan, brochures, code of ethics for work responsibilities, policies of service or goods purchasing and …

“Agate” Theatre

Duration: 2013 The art plays an important role in the progression of the disability identity  over time. Research on actors/actresses has further explicated the positive  role of the arts with respect to disability identity and culture. Evaluations  of arts­based instruction, for example, have found that arts­based teaching  and learning enhanced self­esteem and built self­confidence on an  individual level for artists …