Project Duration: 24 months, 01.01.2021-31.12.2023

Beneficiaries: Direct beneficiaries:

  • women and young girls having disability
  • mothers and caregivers of CWD
  • young girls from poor families who can easily become victims of trafficking
  • girls from orphanages
  • single mothers
  • divorced women
  • mothers who have many children and whose husbands are unemployed
  • refugees and women from very poor families
  • who are subject to domestic violence.

Indirect beneficiaries:

  •  children or other dependents (family members) of the direct beneficiaries involved in the project
  • internally displaced people from Artsakh, who are temporarily or permanently located in Gegharkunik, Lori and Shirak provinces of RA,
  • the families (displaced and local), which lost their only breadwinners as a result of the war
  • the families of seriously wounded soldiers.

Location: Shirak, Gyumri

Goal :To provide women with opportunity for gaining economic independence thus decreasing chances of violence against women.

Description: Intervention Impact:

  • Economic empowerment of women through skill development and income generating programs so they become the proactive democratic citizen of the country.

Outcome:

  • The established economic activities are sustainable and generate lasting improvements in the wellbeing of 40 socially vulnerable women.

Outputs:

  1. The capacities (skills and resources) of the 40 beneficiary women (families) for successful implementation of economic activities are strengthened.
  2. The self-confidence of 40   beneficiary women   is   improved.

Donor: Funded by Renovabis

Budget: 68.802 EUR

Project manager: Gayane Norikyan