Armenia Justice Academy Distance Learning | 2020 - 2022
IMPLEMENTATION TIMEFRAME: January 2021- June 2022
FUNDER: U.S. State Department, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
The goal of the Justice Academy Distance Learning Curriculum Development Program (JADL) in Armenia is to enable the training team of the Republic of Armenia’s Justice Academy to function more productively and be more effective in their mandate of training and regulating justice sector actors, to contribute to the RA Justice Academy’s efforts to create a climate where the rule of law is consistently and fairly applied, and to strengthen the ability of the Government of Armenia to investigate, prosecute, and adjudicate transnational organized and related crimes and respect human rights during criminal proceedings.
The objective of JADL is to adapt nine existing anti-corruption and human rights curricula provided by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) into online modules that allow for distance learning by Armenian investigators, prosecutors, and judges as part of the RA Justice Academy’s continuing education program.
The nine modules include:
Prosecuting Official Corruption Cases
Investigating and Prosecuting Official Corruption Cases
Internal Investigations
Pre-Trial Detention Alternatives
Investigating and Prosecuting Gender-Based Violence Crimes
Protection of Human Rights of Juvenile and Minority Offenders
Financial Crime and Transnational Organized Crime Related to Combating Corruption
Investigating and Prosecuting Intellectual Property Crimes
Judicial Independence and Transparency
The online courses will be geared to adult learners and will consist of video and audio lectures, podcasts, PowerPoint presentations, infographics, supplemental reading materials, quizzes, and interactive tests. This will result in an engaging, user-friendly educational environment in which large volumes of complex legal information are tailored into well-structured, visually attractive, comprehensive and stimulating online lessons that make professional development opportunities conducted by the RA Justice Academy for Armenian legal professional audiences more motivating, easier to digest and remember.
JADL will result in a dynamic online educational platform for the RA Justice Academy encompassing nine easy-to-manage, user-friendly distance learning courses that will better train in-service prosecutors, advocates, investigators and judges on complicated and challenging legal themes in the field of anti-corruption and human rights.
Probation Support Program in Armenia | 2018 - 2021
IMPLEMENTATION TIMEFRAME: March 01, 2018-February 28, 2019
FUNDER: U.S. State Department, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
In Sept. 2016, based on the infrastructure, technical and human resources of its former Alternative Sanctions Unit (ASU) operating under the Criminal Executive Department of the RA Ministry of Justice, Armenia launched a new State Probation Service (SPS). The transition from the ASU with its punitive mentality to SPS as a more humanistic and restorative justice model is full of challenges, since the new service critically suffers serious lack of essential resources, plus, its staff is in need of in-depth professional development and exposure to the experiences and practices of their counterpart international probation services.
Thus, the 1-year Armenia Probation Support Program (Armenia PSPS) funded by the U.S. State Department, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs and implemented by PH International with input from a group of experienced local and international experts and in cooperation with key stakeholders (RA Ministry of Justice, RA State Probation Service, “CLERP” Center for legal Education and Restorative Programs SNPO) and other relevant actors, pursues the following 2 key objectives:
To strengthen the State Probation Service of Armenia through the provision of technical, managerial, human rights and ethics training of its probation officers and staff, thereby increasing the organization’s ability to ensure public safety, prevent reoffending, protect human rights, and reduce the burden on penal institutions.
To ensure that the State Probation Service of Armenia will develop human-rights focused practices and will invest in the sustainability and professionalism of its staff and services.
The program is to deliver the following key activities and results:
Creation of 2 professional development manuals, one for the Managerial/Administrative staff of the Probation Service, and the other for the Probation Officers,
Creation of Methodology Guides for the 2 abovementioned manuals for Trained Trainers
Preparation of a pool of trained trainers for SPS, equipped with proper knowledge, skills and attitude to train the current SPS staff during this project and serve as trainers for upcoming SPS staff in the future
Georgian Police as Leaders in Athletics for Youth | 2014 - 2015
The Georgian Police as Leaders in Athletics for Youth (GE-PLAY) Basketball program is funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affair’s under the SportsUnited International Sports Programming Initiative, and implemented by PH International. The program will take place from September 2014 to December 2015.
The goal of the GE-PLAY Basketball program is to inspire and help officials and community groups in Georgia to adopt policies and approaches that promote development of community-based youth sports programs. Building on PH’s work in the GE CALLS program, youth sports initiatives will draw upon local police and others as resources to provide positive opportunities for youth aged 7-17 to practice leadership, responsibility, teamwork, healthy living and self-discipline.
PH will conduct a two-way sports and cultural exchange with participants (adults and youth) from Georgia and the United States. In early 2015, ten (10) officials and youth practitioners from Georgia will visit the U.S. and be introduced to approaches and options for community-based youth sports programming, with special emphasis on programs models that bring youth and police together. Exchange participants will return home, to develop and execute action plans resulting in 10-15 community-based sports initiatives that can serve as pilot and demonstration programs for a broader effort in the future. In early summer 2015, sixteen (16) Americans, including one boys and one girls basketball team, coaches, and police officers involved in sports programming will visit Georgia to provide added technical assistance, conduct workshops, and clinics and momentum for the programs that are being developed.
The Scottish Study Abroad Program, was funded by the U.S. Embassy’s London Public Affairs Office in England and implemented by PH International from March 8-22, 2014. The objective of this two-week, U.S.-based exchange was met by providing an opportunity for six education professionals from Scotland to increase their knowledge about and to promote the use of study abroad opportunities to university students and educational institutions in Scotland. Exchange participants also learned how to provide informed advice and counseling to students interested in these opportunities; and to how measure, document and communicate the outcomes of studying abroad in the United States.
Program Information
PH is the only partner in the Community Connections global program that hosts groups as well as recruits for professional development opportunities in target countries. Over the years we have hosted groups from more than a dozen countries on programs ranging from agricultural production to the arts. Participants typically spend 3 weeks in Vermont, staying with host families and having a series of meetings with relevant professionals, organizations and institutions appropriate to the theme and objectives for the exchange.> More
Community Connections Forecast Armenia | 2005 - 2011
The long-running Community Connections program was administered in Armenia by PH International and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The program promoted public diplomacy, economic growth and the development of civil society in Armenia and Eurasia through an exchange of experiences, culture and values among program participants, American families, host businesses and local communities.
CC served as a practical internship program, combining seminars, workshops, site visits, and meetings with American professionals with hands-on practical internships. Participants typically stayed from three to five weeks in the United States and lived with American host families.
Community Connections Forecast Azerbaijan | 2005 - 2011
Community Connections is a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded program. The Community Connections program offers three-week practical training opportunities in the U.S. for entrepreneurs, local government officials, health workers, legal professionals, non-governmental organization leaders and other professionals throughout Azerbaijan. The program is designed to promote public diplomacy through the exchange of cultural ideas and values between participants, U.S. families and local community host organizations.
Community Connections Forecast Georgia | 2005 - 2011
The Community Connections program in Georgia was administered by PH International and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Community Connections promoted public diplomacy, economic growth and the development of civil society in Georgia and Eurasia through an exchange of experiences, culture and values among program participants, American families, host businesses and local communities. A practical internship program that combined seminars, workshops, site visits, and meetings with American professionals with hands-on practical internships, Community Connections provided participants with an experience lasting three to five weeks in the United States and with an American host family experience.
The Community Connections program:
Provided participants with professional training and exposure to the day-to-day functioning of a free market system
Encouraged public-private partnerships in Georgia by including private sector and government participants on US visits
Created links between US and Georgian regions and communities
Community Connections Forecast Ukraine | 2005 - 2011
Community Connections was a public diplomacy, economic growth and civil society development program administered in Ukraine by PH International and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The program provided practical internship experiences combining seminars, workshops, site visits, meetings with American professionals ane an internship. Participants typically stayed from three to five weeks in the United States and lived with American host families.
Ukraine/Michigan Program on Integrating Ethics into Democratic Governance | 1999 - 2000
A follow-on to the In Search of New Democracy program, PH, the School of Criminal Justice and the College of Social Science at Michigan State University again conducted an intensive program in Ukraine on Integrating Ethics into Democratic Governance.
Ukrainian Women Parliamentarians Exchange | 1999 - 2000
The Project Harmony Training Program for Women in the New Parliament of Ukraine took place in January, 1999. Nine participants, including legislators, aides and journalists traveled to the United States for an intensive twelve-day program in New York/New Jersey and Washington, DC. The program increased participants’ abilities to improve the legislative process in Ukraine by increasing the effectiveness of women as legislators and increasing the understanding of how policies affect women. The program provided participants with a comparative look at the American political process through a number of focussed lectures, seminars and meetings with leading educational centers, political organizations and politicians.> More
Law Enforcement Exchange Program | 1995 - 2000
Since 1995, Project Harmony has been involved in training and education programs for police, law enforcement officials and criminal justice experts from the United States and the NIS. Police and law enforcement officials from Texas, Louisiana, Colorado, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts and New Jersey have participated in programs in Petrozavodsk, Volgograd and Oryol, Russia and Lviv, Uzhgorod and Odessa, Ukraine. Project Harmony was selected by the Department of Internal Affairs in Russia to coordinate the year-long hosting programs for three Yeltsin Scholars in law enforcement. In the fall of 1997, the Project Harmony-State Department Law Enforcement Exchange Program brought 12 Fellowship law enforcement candidates from the NIS to live in US host families and intern with local US law enforcement individuals and departments from October to December. Four partnerships between US schools of criminal justice and Institutes of Internal Affairs in Russia and Ukraine conducted exchanges in 1997, 1998 and 1999. By the spring of 2000, over 140 US and 140 NIS officials will have participated in Project Harmony law enforcement exchange programs. Project Harmony has received funding from the US State Department to continue Law Enforcement Exchange Programs with Russian and Ukrainian participants through 2000.> More
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Armenia Justice Academy Distance Learning
Georgian Police as Leaders in Athletics for Youth
The Georgian Police as Leaders in Athletics for Youth (GE-PLAY) Basketball program is funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affair’s under the SportsUnited International Sports Programming Initiative, and implemented by PH International. The program will take place from September 2014 to December 2015.
Scottish Study Abroad Program
Community Connections Forecast Azerbaijan
Community Connections Forecast Ukraine
