From the Borderland to the Steppes supports democratic growth, good governance and human rights in Caucasus, Moldova, Ukraine and Central Asia by strengthening the abilities of independent media and civil society organisations. The project is funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway.

KIN 17th International Film Festival became a reality thanks to a grant from International 2020 Relief Fund For Organisations In Culture And Education.

Within the EU-funded “Future Today: Empowering women, youth and children for deepening democracy in Armenia” project UNDP Armenia’s Kolba Lab opens a special call for proposals aimed to support civil society organizations, making them more resilient against shocks and crisis. The project has envisaged support for proposals suggesting solutions and innovative models towards collaborative action on the national and municipal level, citizen participation schemes, new oversight and monitoring mechanisms and peer-to-peer support actions, responding to the emerging challenges of 2020. The call is aligned with the ongoing ADB/OGP global initiative to ensure government accountability and responsiveness during COVID-19 and the new regional “EU for Integrity Action for the Eastern Partnership” initiative, which includes support to OGP in enhancing EaP government and civil society dialogue on accountability and transparency reforms.

Caucasus Research Resource Center (CRRC)-Armenia Foundation aims at supporting Armenia’s democratization processes by making available quality data on political, economic and social processes and by engaging key state, non-state actors and the media in the use, analysis and application of open data in decision-making. 

The purpose of the project is to establish a network of parents who advocate for equitable quality inclusion of children in the education institutions and promotion of accessible childcare for all. 

Within the EU-funded “FUTURE TODAY: Empowering women, youth and children for deepening democracy in Armenia” project  UNDP Armenia’s Kolba Lab opens a special call for proposals seeking partnership with Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) around co-design and incubation of youth-lead innovative ideas. The call will aim at mobilising a critical cohort of young innovators in generating and testing future-oriented ideas.

In the framework of the “Future Skills” project, and in cooperation with Russia’s “Educational center of digital agronomy and modern technologies in Agricultural industries,” UNDP/Kolba Lab is organizing an online training course for the specialists in the agricultural field. The deadline for this training course is December 2nd, 2020, at 18:00.

ForSet and the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) are happy to invite you to join the DataFest Tbilisi 2020! The world is becoming increasingly tech-driven. Data-based analytics and communication are going to play an important role in media, NGO, private and public sectors.