Project Duration: 01.12.2024- 30.11.2027

Number of Beneficiaries: Direct beneficiaries 7.205, indirect beneficiaries 50 000

Target group: Potential and labor migrants, their family members, USS staff, young journalists/students, active youth living in various communities of Armenia, community residents, NGOs, other relevant state institutions, media, and the society of Armenia.

Location: Russia, Armenia.

 

Goal: Empowering labor migrants and their family members by promoting and protection of their rights and interests according to international treaties and conventions.

Objectives:

  1. Prevent violations of labor migrants’ rights by awareness raising; to advocate and protect migrants and their families interests in both host and origin countries;
  2. Provide migrants with legal consultations;
  3. Promote the protection of migrants’ rights by collaborating with stakeholders and/or relevant parties involved in addressing migrant issues on both national and international platforms.

 

Activities:

  • Organizing pre-departure training sessions, meetings, and providing consultations to Armenian labor migrants and their family members in communities of Armenia;
  • Capacity building of NGOs by developing abilities to provide pre-departure consultation;
  • Developing the capacities of young journalists and students;
  • Capacity building of staff of 49 USS;
  • Preparing and delivering video lessons on migration legislation for staff of 49 USS centers;
  • Organizing of video lessons on various migration-related issues and legislative issues for Armenian Councils;
  • Organizing media campaign to raise awareness of labor migration issues and challenges;
  • Participation in the “Suitcase” Journalistic Awards;
  • Empowering young activists and labor migrants in local communities;
  • Raising awareness of migrants and their families through social media, providing consultations and guidance.
  • Highlighting and discussing labor migrants’ issues on media platforms;
  • Providing legal consultations to labor migrants in the Russian Federation;
  • Offering consultations through a hotline;
  • Organizing roundtable discussions to raise various migration-related issues, with the participation of government, civil society and international actors and stakeholders in the field.

 

Funding organization: Caritas France

Budget:  299.769 €

Program Manager: David Mosoyan