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.