Effective institutional legal aid provision to the vulnerable in Armenia

After the Velvet Revolution pro-democratic institutions became number 1 target of unprecedented democratic demand by citizens. In response to this RPIF initiated “Effective institutional legal aid provision to the vulnerable in Armenia” project funded by the US Embassy in Armenia, to give an institutional boost to the Public Defender’s Office of the Chamber of Advocates of the Republic of Armenia and advance rights of the most vulnerable within society in Armenia. It pursues the following objectives: provision of PDO with connection, trust and better reach to its beneficiaries, especially the most vulnerable, as well as facilitation of public accessibility of PDO institutional experience, data and best practices concerning the most vulnerable in Armenia, public awareness raising through creation of official institutional website with an online intake form possibility and social media platform for PDO, development and publicizing of brief targeted informational resources for vulnerable groups in close cooperation with PDO; transfer of practical targeted skills to PDs for more efficient direct work with vulnerable group members specifically through respective trainings.