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Extension and renovation of a care and therapy centre for handicapped children in Chisinau Renovierung und Ausbau der stationären Betreuungs-und Therapieeinrichtung für Kinder mit Behinderungen Extension and renovation of a care and therapy centre for handicapped children in Chisinau Renovierung und Ausbau der stationären Betreuungs-und Therapieeinrichtung für Kinder mit Behinderungen Extension and renovation of a care and therapy centre for handicapped children in Chisinau Renovierung und Ausbau der stationären Betreuungs-und Therapieeinrichtung für Kinder mit Behinderungen
Programm der Nachhaltigen Wirtschaftsentwicklung-Model Strukturreform Structural Reform Vocational Training Die bildungspolitischen und institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen für die Durchführung von bedarfsorientierter dualer Berufsbildung sind verbessert. Educational policy and institutional framework conditions for implementation of dual vocational framing are improved. Die bildungspolitischen und institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen für die Durchführung von bedarfsorientierter dualer Berufsbildung sind verbessert. Educational policy and institutional framework conditions for implementation of dual vocational framing are improved.
Modernisierung der Landwirtschaft Moderniszation of the Moldowian agricultural economy Die von der Regierung eingeführten agrartechnischen Standards im Rahmen der EU Annäherung im Bereich Obst und Gemüse werden zunehmende von marktorientierten Landwirten und von den Betrieben der Ernährungswirtschaft übernommen. Agricultural standards for fruit and vegetables introduced by the government as part of EU alignment are increasingly adopted by market-oriented farmers and companies in the food industry. Die von der Regierung eingeführten agrartechnischen Standards im Rahmen der EU Annäherung im Bereich Obst und Gemüse werden zunehmende von marktorientierten Landwirten und von den Betrieben der Ernährungswirtschaft übernommen. Agricultural standards for fruit and vegetables introduced by the government as part of EU alignment are increasingly adopted by market-oriented farmers and companies in the food industry.
Unterstützung moldauischer Gemeinden bei der Aufnahme ukrainischer Geflüchteter Support for Moldovan Communities in hosting Ukrainian refugees Ausgewählte soziale und gesundheitliche Dienstleistungen sind für Teile der aufnehmenden Gemeinden und ukrainische Geflüchtete hinsichtlich Zugang und Qualität verbessert. Selected social and health services for parts of the host communities and Ukrainian refugees are improved regarding access and quality. Ausgewählte soziale und gesundheitliche Dienstleistungen sind für Teile der aufnehmenden Gemeinden und ukrainische Geflüchtete hinsichtlich Zugang und Qualität verbessert. Selected social and health services for parts of the host communities and Ukrainian refugees are improved regarding access and quality.
Financial Sector Reform and Strengthening Initiative Programmatic Multi Donor Trust Fund for Lower Income Countries The objective of the Trust Fund is to support low-income countries to improve the stability, efficiency, inclusiveness and depth of their financial sectors by providing medium-term technical assistance in prudential supervision, financial inclusion, and market development.
 
 The objectives, basic principles, activities and governance arrangements of FIRST and which apply to the Trust Fund are described in the FIRST Charter, which was adopted on July 6, 2007 and amended on July 11, 2013.
Democratic Transparency and Accountability Program (DTAP) (Moldova):  Not applicable.
Alternative Dispute Resolution (Moldova):  This funding supports efforts by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to promote and facilitate the use of Arbitration and Mediation on a national scale in Moldova.
Future Technologies Activity (Moldova):  .The Future Technologies Activity will support the urban-focused and technology driven sectors including ICT, light manufacturing, precision engineering, creative industries, and media. It will incorporate cross-pollination and collaboration between the numerous centers of excellence. Cross-sector collaboration along these lines can achieve exponential results, such as the case with Tekwill-derived technology development transferring into the agricultural and wine sectors...The Future Technologies activities has been reorganized and renamed. Assistance related to workforce development and private sector competitiveness has been subsumed by the Future Technologies Activity. Funding for the Future Technologies activity originates from: $4,000,000 Private Sector Competitiveness follow-on activity, $2,315,055 Tourism Activity, and $2,000,000 Workforce Development. ..This program will support JRS Goal 2 Strengthen and Balance the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Relationship by making Moldova more attractive for investment and provides U.S. businesses with new opportunities.  This activity also supports CAATSA Goal 8 (30 percent). ..$250,000 of funding within this project contributes to meeting basic education directive... .
MOL SO 2.3 LOCAL GOVERNMENT Local Democratic Institutions More Effective, Responsive and Accountable
Novateca  Global Libraries Moldova Novateca is helping Moldovans attain a higher quality of life by increasing economic and social opportunities through access to relevant information and modern services in public libraries.
Local Government Support Program The Local Government Support Project (LGSP) is a four-year activity to assist local governments to design and implement policies and procedures that contribute to good governance, develop capacity to meet decentralized authorities and responsibilities for services in a transparent manner, and provide basic services that engender growth of local economies and make services more cost effective and efficient. The LGSP has three interrelated components: 1. Improve municipal service delivery, including planning, service management and service quality and quantity. Component one will assist in the development of physical, strategic, and financial planning that supports local infrastructure coverage and /or quality improvements as well as the use of more effective and efficient methods of service organization. Technical assistance shall be provided to support detailed plans for improved management and infrastructure improvements based on the plans, with assistance to secure funding and leverage co-finance for implementation. 2. Increase revenues available to local governments and improvements in financial management practices. Component two provides assistance to strengthen the financial management basis for planning and executing service improvements and maximizing the revenue potential of the local government. 3. Municipal Energy Efficiency Component three assists with the development and implementation, as the case may be, of local energy efficiency plans and practices, and improves planning to attract capital investments to reduce the heavy cost of energy on local government budgets. Activities will assist with local energy efficiency plans and support management of municipal energy efficiency projects.
Moldova Partnerships for Sustainable Civil Society (MPSCS) (Moldova):  MPSCS engages in capacity-building of civil society to represent citizens' interests, influence policymaking, and safeguard civil society's democratic role in Moldova. MPSCS will strengthen Moldovan civil society organizations (CSOs), CSO networks, and engagement between CSOs and the Moldovan government to contribute to a more vibrant and effective civil society sector in Moldova.  MPSCS works to improve the capacity of civil society in Moldova to represent citizens' interests, influence policymaking, and sustain the sector's democratic role for the future. In the final year of implementation, the activity will focus on consolidating the results achieved in  creating a more favorable environment for Moldovan CSOs, and for improving CSO institutional and advocacy capacities and their financial viability so that their impact can be sustained beyond the life of the project. Specifically, the activity will focus on advancing relevant legislation and strategies, such as assisting stakeholders to approve and start implementing the Civil Society Development Strategy for 2017-2020 and providing recommendations to authorities to finalize the Law on Social Entrepreneurship and to improve the regulations on CSOs' social contracting. In addition, USAID will prioritize closing-out all partner CSOs' grants and sharing their successful advocacy activities with other Moldovan CSOs through closeout events; and reaching out to over 500,000 Moldovans by disseminating TV spots highlighting partner CSOs' achievements, to amplify partner CSOs' messaging and to improve civil society's visibility and credibility.
MOL SO 1.3 PRIVATE ENTERPRISE GROWTH Private Enterprise Growth Creates Jobs and Generates Income
Fairness and Access to Justice Work towards an equitable justice system by ensuring fairness in law and process. Fairness programs include non-discrimination law fair trial standards, effective administrative law systems to guard against arbitrary government action, and observance by all justice system actors and institutions of international treaties and customary law. Support monitoring and advocacy by justice sector NGOs, including strategic lawyering, trial monitoring, and policy dialogue. Improve equitable access to justice through increasing the quality and quantity of state and non-state justice services, with a particular focus on women, youth, the poor, LGBT persons, and other marginalized or vulnerable groups. This includes access to state and non-state dispute-resolution fora; court re-distribution; mobile courts; the removal of language, gender, cultural, sexual orientation, gender identity and physical barriers; circulation of laws and legal decisions; alternative dispute resolution systems; and expanding access to legal services (e.g., public defenders offices, legal aid and legal services, labor law services, justice or legal resources centers). This also includes programs to educate the citizenry about their rights, how to access services, and how to encourage change. Programs primarily focused on trafficking in persons should be captured under PS.5 and programs focused on alien smuggling under PS.4.
High Value Agriculture Activity (Moldova):  To enable Moldova to better withstand economic pressures from Russia and rebuild a strong, market-driven economy, the High Value Agriculture Activity (HVAA) strengthens the agricultural sector and builds trading ties with non-CIS countries. The project works across agricultural value chains to improve productivity and quality to meet market demands, link producers and processors with international markets, bolster member-based organizations to be more competitive, and strengthen the workforce. HVAA will enhance the resilience of Moldovan HVA value chains by focusing on export market facilitation using digital platforms and building the capacity of key sectoral associations to provide market information and design export market development initiatives. Activities will include implementing e-commerce and online marketing tools for agribusinesses, as well as developing and disseminating online education platforms for associations and vocational schools. Furthermore, HVAA will assist associations and producers to improve market understanding and build market linkages, as well as develop online communication channels, promotions to increase domestic consumption, and building awareness of Moldovan products for exports. FY20 funds will expand the pool of Moldovan growers adopting international certifications, such as Global G.A.P, allowing them to access new high value markets in the EU and beyond and also reducing dependency on the Russian market. HVAA will forge stronger linkages between producers and processors, opening new marketing channels for small growers and ensuring Moldova has sufficient food supplies. HVAA makes Moldova more attractive for investment and provides U.S. businesses with new opportunities.  The activity supports CAATSA Goal 8 (50 percent) and JRS Goal 2 Strengthen and Balance the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Relationship... . Objectives for Moldova: The project aims to assist 600 enterprises in enhancing production capacities and the marketing and export of high value agricultural products; 280 agricultural entrepreneurs adopting advanced postharvest technologies; 3,500 farmers applying new varieties and modern technologies of cultivation of agricultural products; 5,000 farmers trained in advanced production and post-harvest technology
Better Opportunities for Youth and Women The project promotes the diminution of vulnerability of certain social categories in respect of such negative social phenomena like: domestic violence and physical abuses, unemployment, delinquency and drug consumption. The overall project purpose is to develop specific services to support the social, economical and professional reintegration of graduates of boarding schools  orphans or children without family care, mothers with children at risk, expectant mothers at risk, through providing shelter services (up to 12 months), with conditions similar to family one, psychological and social care, providing with independent life skills, activities aimed at facilitating beneficiaries access to labour market, financial and material support. The project will create jobs for vulnerable groups, will identify existing job vacancies and will provide vocational trainings.
Moldova Rural Leader Project The program contributes to sustainable improvement of the living conditions and inclusive economic growth in rural areas by scaling-up eu leader/clld approach as a model-solution for better local development in the republic of Moldova.
Comunitatea Mea Activity (Moldova):  Moving government and citizens toward citizen-driven decision-making will help build stronger and more resilient institutions, making Moldova more resistant to malign influence.  Comunitatea Mea helps local governments to become more effective, transparent, and accountable by building local government capacity to meet citizens' needs through four key objectives: 1) improved quality of and access to municipal services; 2) meaningful citizen engagement; 3) advanced decentralization policy reforms; and 4) increased locally-generated revenues and improved financial management practices in local governments. FY 2021 funds will be used to provide customized technical assistance to over 60 partner-municipalities.  Specific activities include technical assistance in updating/developing community strategies and bridging them financial forecasting of local budgets; funding implementation of small-scale infrastructure projects; improving local administrative services including access to e-services; training and advice on the use of innovative tools for improved property management and increasing local revenues. A specific tailored package of assistance on municipal finance and capital investment planning will support the capital city of Chisinau.This project supports CAATSA Goal 5 to build the capacity of civil society, media, and other non-governmental organizations countering the influence and propaganda for the Russian Federation to combat corruption, prioritize access to truthful information, and operate freely (25 percent), and Goal 4 to improve participatory legislative processes and legal education, political transparency and competition, and compliance with international organizations (25 percent).  It also supports JRS Goal 4 Uphold Western Democratic Principles and Institution.
MOL SO 1.4 FINANCIAL SECTOR A More Competitive and Market Responsive Private Financial Sector
Moldova Structural Reform Program (MSRP) MSRP will improve the business and trade enabling environment in Moldova by helping GOM institutions and the private sector accelerate the implementation of trade liberalization mechanisms, adopt structural and business enabling reforms, and improve strategic communications between the private and public actors.
The Moldova Development Policy Program Co-financing for the Moldova Development Policy Program. This program is used to help Moldova address the economic, energy, security, and humanitarian impacts of the war against Ukraine. These funds will assist Moldova through a process of reimbursement for prior verified electricity purchases.
IT Center of Excellence (Moldova):  The technology sector represents an area of economic growth potential for Moldova, offering jobs for young people who might otherwise emigrate and an opportunity to improve the country's business climate.  The Information and Communication Technology Excellence Center (ICTEC) created in Chisinau, with support from USAID and the Government of Sweden, provides physical work space, equipment, and staff to nurture the development of new IT professionals, new IT companies, and IT solutions.  This activity helps to build Moldova's future workforce, ensuring that government and private sector employees have the necessary skills and technological solutions to improve efficiency and productivity, and to provide IT solutions to close avenues for corruption.  FY 2020 funds will support three studies as to how to enhance ICT education, entrepreneurship, and professional development in Moldova. These will include: A feasibility study on regional expansion to identify additional cities that are ready for a Tekwill center, a Startup Moldova and Seed Fund study to promote IT entrepreneurship and online business solutions, and Educational Roadmap study on how to integrate K-12 education more fully into the Tekwill model. The project is implemented through the Global Development Alliances instrument (GDA) as a private-public partnership between the Moldovan Government, private industry, academia, and donors.  Private sector partners include multinational companies IBM, Microsoft and Oracle, and also locally operated members of the National Association of ICT Companies (ATIC).This project supports JRS Goal 2, Strengthen and Balance the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Relationship and CAATSA Goal 8 of economic resilience (100 percent).  It also makes Moldova more attractive for foreign investment and provides American businesses with new opportunities. Objectives for Moldova: The goal of the project is to establish and operate a fully functional and sustainable Information and Communication Technology Excellence Center (ICTEC) in Moldova. The activity will establish and manage a physical facility for the Center, provide for appropriate equipment and staff, and organize trainings and services to students and ICT sector workers related to information and communications technology (ICT). Over 1,000 beneficiaries are expected to receive relevant training per year.
Disaster Risk Reduction Disaster risk reduction management and agricultural livelihoods support for vulnerable populations in Mongolia.
Elections and Political Processes Provide assistance that enables citizens to select and replace their leaders through periodic, inclusive, accountable and free and fair elections. This includes support for legal and regulatory frameworks, open and effective election administration, broad public participation and civic awareness, societal oversight of electoral processes, and accountable procedures for election-related grievances and appeals.
Open Justice Project (Moldova):  The Open Justice activity fosters a more.accountable and efficient justice system through implementation of an upgraded.Integrated Case Management System (ICMS). A transparent, independent justice.system is critical to building strong democratic institutions and to creating a.positive business climate in Moldova.  This new technology will constrain.corruption by automating judicial assignments, and improve public access, thus.supporting accountability.  The activity.will develop and apply new performance standards for judges, enabling the.Superior Council of Magistracy (SCM) to select and promote judges based on.merit.  This will reduce corruption.risks, strengthen professionalism and integrity, and hold the judiciary.accountable for violating ethical standards and the law.  Reducing.corruption strengthens confidence in the government, making Moldova more.resilient to Russian malign influence.  Reducing judicial corruption also encourages.international investment.  In its final.months, Open Justice will enhance local counterpart capacity to use.videoconferencing equipment to facilitate communication between the SCM and the.courts, improving efficiency.  The.activity will also implement the upgraded ICMS in all Moldovan courts and.improve justice sector institutions' ability to communicate with citizens,.enhancing public trust in the courts.  The.planned initiatives will assist the SCM, MOJ, and courts respond to requests.for information, deliver press releases, and engage in community outreach.  These interventions will give citizens better.access to information about their rights and procedures, enhancing access to.justice.  The activity also improves services received in courts, and to enhance the level of court accountability.  Finally, assistance will continue to the SCM.on improving process of judicial selection and promotion..This activity supports JRS goal #4, Uphold Western Democratic Principles and Institutions..... ..... .
Moldova Competitiveness Project USAID's Competitiveness Project will seek to.promote a strong, diverse, and export-oriented economy by improving.competitiveness and efficiency in key Moldovan industries, creating desirable.well-paying jobs, reducing emigration, and improving the economic well-being of.all Moldovans. The targeted industries include wine production, tourism, light.industry, information technology, creative services and precision engineering..The Project will continue to strengthen industry competitiveness by working.with an estimated 350 Small and Medium Enterprises to improve quality, adopt.new technologies, enhance marketing, and make critical investments in equipment.and people. USAID will continue to grow product quality as the key to preparing.Moldova's private sector to compete in EU and other high-value markets. Objectives for Moldova: The Moldova Competitiveness Project (MCP) focuses on leveraging Moldova’s prime tourism assets – wine, gastronomy and rural life – into an engine of economic growth in even the most remote rural regions, contributing to a reduction in poverty and migration. MCP’s tourism strategy provides year-round opportunities, creating a sustainable industry attractive to a range of international markets.
Rule of Law Institutional Strengthening Program/ROLISP Rule of Law Institutional Strengthening Program
Business Regulatory and Tax Administration Reform (BIZTAR) Project BIZTAR supported the Government of Moldovas efforts to encourage productive investment by improving the business environment and lowering the overall burden of state regulation on private enterprise. The project focused on streamlining business-state interaction through regulatory reform and promoting more efficient administrative procedures to ensure that reporting requirements for tax and other business purposes are kept to the minimum needed for effective government operations.
Mongolia Dzud Emergency Response (MONDER) This award is a new award to provide rapid emergency assistance in Mongolia for a program entitled "Mongolia Dzud Emergency Response (MONDER). Its purpose is to increase access to basic supplies inclusive of food items to vulnerable households in proposed project areas and support herders by providing adequate feed quantities to help domestic animals survive the severe winter.