Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly-Vanadzor

Implementation period 

2018 November 1 – 2019 June 30

Funding organization

OxYGen Foundation for Protection of Youth and

Women Rights

Grant amount

102 226 658 AMD

Long-term observation:

Long-term observation included development of a training module and monitoring cards. Four two-day trainings of observers, organization of observer coordination. 

84 long-term observers collected information in all regions of Armenia about the campaign all political parties and regional candidates based 9 monitoring cards

Short-term observation:

34 two-day trainings were held for around 950 observer candidates. 4 additional briefings were held for mobile observers and 4 additional briefings were held for observers deployed to the territorial electoral commissions. Around 740 short-term observers collected information on E-Day about the situation in and around 300 polling stations and 36 territorial electoral commissions, based on 8 monitoring cards

Observation report:

Observation report including an analysis and assessment of the legislative framework (including implementation of international and local recommendations), political context, analysis of the campaign period and the E-Day, and detailed recommendations on legislative amendments prepared and presented to stakeholders on March 26

Follow-up survey on electoral behavior

A two-tier study included a quantitative survey with 1200 respondents statistically selected from all regions of Armenia and in-depth interviews with 18 candidates from all political parties participating in the snap parliamentary elections. The preliminary findings of the research were discussed in a small working group in June. The final results were compiled into a report together with relevant information from the observation of the campaign periods in 2017 and 2018. A follow-up meeting with project partners and beneficiaries was conducted at the end of June to assess the project and to plan future activities by Independent Observer.