Success Stories

- Monday, 03 May 2010

Supporting Female Entrepreneurs: Women in Progress

During the post-communist transition period, Georgian women took on numerous responsibilities to support their families. In rural areas, however, patriarchal social systems limited women’s role outside the home. But the lack of opportunities did not reduce women’s desire to think of innovative, entrepreneurial activities.
- Monday, 03 May 2010

Youth Bank - Young Agents of Community Change

“We have planted 412 trees in memory of the 412 people killed during the Georgia-Russia war in August 2008,” says Zurab Mdzinarishvili, 16, leader of a youth initiative group from Gori. Zurab and his friends received funding for the project from the Gori Youth Bank, established by Eurasia Partnership Foundation (funded by USAID through the Eurasia Foundation) in 2009.
- Tuesday, 26 January 2010

Tolerance Building – Youth in Charge!

We have built a mini ‘Caucasus home’ in the Bolnisi Youth Bank,” says 16 year old ethnic Armenian Robert Sargysyan about the seven member Youth Bank (YB) grant making committee established in Kvemo Kartli by Eurasia Partnership Foundation (EPF).
- Tuesday, 30 June 2009

Supporting the Fight against Domestic Violence: EPF Improves Saphari’s Organizational Capacity

A major component of Eurasia Partnership Foundation’s grant making is to develop the governance and management capacity of local civil society organizations to the highest international standards. In the fifteen years that EPF (previously as Eurasia Foundation’s Georgia office) has been working in Georgia, the Foundation has seen great successes in these activities.
- Thursday, 25 June 2009

EPF Supports Young Filmmakers of the South Caucasus

“The year I spent in the program was probably the best year of my life,” says Aram Voskanyan, a 22-year old participant of the Workshop at the Crossroads program, implemented by EPF and Internews.
- Thursday, 25 June 2009

New Partnerships to Leverage Youth Work

On February 18, 2009, Eurasia Partnership Foundation signed an agreement with Theodor-Heuss-Kolleg to establish a strategic partnership in the area of youth integration throughout the South Caucasus
- Thursday, 25 June 2009

Grant-making to Engage Youth in Post-conflict Rehabilitation

The Values against Violence project is implemented with support provided by EPF to help children and adolescents overcome psychological trauma as a result of the recent Russia-Georgia conflict.
- Thursday, 26 March 2009

EPF Brings together Azerbaijani and Armenian Journalists

As part of an EPF program funded by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on March 27-29 22 journalists and editors from Armenia and Azerbaijan (11 from each country) met to develop a joint Action Plan.
- Thursday, 26 March 2009

Creative Commons (CCi) – EPF: Creative Partnership

Since summer 2008, EPF has closely cooperated with Creative Commons International (CCi) to establish the Creative Commons (CC) licensing framework in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
- Thursday, 26 March 2009

Model Caucasus Parliament

To increase the role of emerging young leaders from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia in propagating democratic values and positive change in the South Caucasus, EPF been supporting a regional civil society consortium comprised of the Forum for XXI Century Leaders Youth NGO (Armenia), the National Committee of Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly (Azerbaijan), and Movement for the Future Union (Georgia) to undertake a “Model Caucasus Parliament” project.
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