The "Caring for Equality" project from 2015-2019 aimed to promote gender equality and prevent harmful practices against women and girls in Armenia. The project worked at both the national and community levels, seeking to change social norms and create an enabling environment for policies through legal reforms. Key activities included engaging families and youth, identifying and preventing gender-based violence, and collaborating with the Armenian Apostolic Church.

1. “Caring for Equality” project
2015-2019
Goal:
“Caring for Equality” project seeks to change attitudes and prevent behavior that is harmful to women
and girls. It seeks an environment where girls and boys are born and valued equally.
The project will be implemented in the country at national level enabling an environment to promote
policies combatting gender-based violence and prenatal sex selection. The project will also work at
community level aiming at changing the social norms.
National Level:
Promotion of policies combatting gender-based violence and prenatal sex selection
- enabling legal and institutional environment for promotion of policies, which will best serve the
needs of vulnerable women, girls and their families in communities.
- mapping and facilitation of cooperation of local and regional formal and informal structures
mandated to address women’s, children and family issues.
- facilitating the creation of the unified Church vision/strategy on gender equality and prenatal sex
selection.
Community and Family Level:
Transformed families promoting change in gender social norms
- facilitating active participation of families in transforming harmful social norms.
- engaging teenagers, youth, community active groups and faith leaders in gender equality
promotion activities and fostering equitable and non-abusive environment in families, schools and
community in general.
The project will capitalize on the role of community-based social workers especially in early identification and
prevention of gender-based violence cases and prenatal sex-selection issues at household level.
"Caring for Equality" project will be implemented in marzes of Gegharkunik, Aragatsotn, Tavush, Shirak
and Kanaker-Zeytun district of Yerevan where World Vision Armenia has already long term
development programs and teams.
The project will closely collaborate with the Armenian Apostolic church to have a stronger social
engagement related to gender equality.
World Vision partners with the Government of Armenia, regional and local authorities, international and
local organizations, Armenian Church, education and health establishments, local and regional women
and child protection bodies and networks to effectively implement its projects.