The goal of the Transparency International Anti-corruption Center (TIAC) project with short name “Engaged Citizenry for Responsible Governance” is to increase civic engagement in and oversight of reforms in Armenia aimed at improving of transparency and accountability of government actions and policies. It is achieved through civil society’s ability to engage citizens and articulate their interests improved and sustained; monitoring of government institutions, officials and policy process strengthened; citizen access to independent and reliable information increased; civil society enabling environment improved.

CRRC-Armenia will utilize both quantitative and qualitative methods to address the research under this program. Forty CSOs operating in the sphere of advocacy and participatory monitoring in Armenia will be surveyed through a semi-structured questionnaire to measure the capacity of the advocacy organizations and get a big picture of the society’s ability to participate in policy-making by engaging citizens, articulating their interests, and monitoring state institutions. This will provide an opportunity to map the challenges and issues that will be addressed in training activities.

This baseline survey is considered as a starting point to measure the further progress of the program. It is conceived as a panel survey with the same group of CSOs as a control group to track the changes compared with project CSOs and analyze the trends. Two other surveys of this longitudinal study will be conducted during the implementation of the project.

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