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Amplify, Verify, Engage

The Amplify, Verify, Engage project promotes democratic growth, participatory governance, and cross-border cooperation, by strengthening civil society and independent media across Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Caucasus.

Years active: 2021-2023

The Amplify, Verify, Engage: Information for Democratisation and Good Governance in Eurasia project builds on IWPR's previous Norwegian-supported initiatives, including the Giving Voice, Driving Change project. AVE will continue to promote democratic growth, participatory governance, and cross-border cooperation, by strengthening civil society and independent media across Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Caucasus.

Amplify, Verify, Engage (AVE) has three key objectives, through which IWPR will:

Amplify journalists and independent media voices producing verified, evidence-based reporting;
Verify reliable information by strengthening the capacity of civil society and independent media to counter misinformation and disinformation;
Engage civil society, independent media, public officials and the general public to foster increased dialogue and cooperation.

Established in collaboration with and funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), the project directly supports Norwegian priorities and values, builds on long-standing Norwegian supported programming in the region, and expands on IWPR’s extensive local and regional networks of independent media and civic groups.

Latest from the project

An internally displaced woman from Abkhazia hangs laundry from the window of her room in Kartli. © David Mdzinarishvili

Georgia: IDP’s Death Reopens Debate Over Housing

Hundreds of thousands of displaced people have been living in dire conditions for decades.

Ukrainian refugees arrive in Przemysl, Poland. © Alena Hermanovich

Ukraine: “Everything is Destroyed”

Refugees continues to flock westwards, with more than two million crossing into Poland.

Ukraine's New York: the Struggle for Change on the Frontline

The war confounds young people’s efforts to revitalise Ukraine’s embattled east and counter Russian propaganda.

Azerbaijan’s Balancing Act between Russia and Ukraine

With Russian peacekeepers in Nagorny Karabakh, the region is Baku’s Achilles’ heel.

Ukraine’s IT Warriors

As the Ukrainian army fights Russia’s invasion on the ground, a parallel war unfolds in cyberspace.

The Exodus to Lviv

Civil society mobilises as western city becomes a hub for those displaced by the war.

Kartli was built in Soviet times as a sanatorium for patients with heart conditions. As hundreds of thousands of Georgians fled Abkhazia at the end of the conflict in late 1993, authorities allocated about 200 families housing there in what was supposed to be a temporary measure. Thirty years on, 130 are still there. © David Mdzinarishvili

Photo Essay

Georgian Displaced Still Long for a Home

The death of an IDP has reopened the debate on the dire conditions people originally from Abkhazia have been enduring for decades.

Tens of thousands of people rallied in in Berlin on February 27, 2022 to protest against the war as Ukraine seeks to defend itself against a large-scale Russian military invasion. © Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Ukraine War Diary by A. Borden

Analysis: Finding a Formula for Peace in Ukraine

As talks grapple with cease-fires and humanitarian corridors, the outlines of a deal are in view.

Devastated buildings in the aftermath of Russian shelling in Freedom Avenue, a street once buzzing street with cafes and boutiques. It is just off Freedom Square, Kharkiv's architectural landmark and Europe's second largest city-center square. © Maria Avdeeva

First Person

Kharkiv: Besieged But Not Defeated

“The only thing Russia has achieved is a united hatred against Russian occupiers in this once-loyal city.”

IWPR ACADEMY

Newsrooms Countering Disinformation

IWPR film and online course available in seven languages is supporting young journalists across the Eastern Partnership region and Central Asia to detect and combat disinformation in their daily work.

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The Amplify, Verify, Engage (AVE) project builds on IWPR's previous Norwegian-supported initiatives, including the Giving Voice, Driving Change - from the Borderland to the Steppes project. AVE will continue to promote democratic growth, participatory governance, and cross-border cooperation, by strengthening civil society and independent media across Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Caucasus.