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DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION

2014 Annual Reporton external assistance provided to the Republic of Moldova

Chișinău, August 2014

State Chancellery of the Republic of Moldova

This report is the product of the analysis of data and information provided by development partners and national public authorities.

Authors - Monitoring and Evaluation Division of the General Division for Policy Coor-dination, Foreign Aid and Central Public Administration Reform within the State Chan-cellery, manaaged by Division Head Ms. Lucreția Ciurea and team members: Mr. Adrian Ermurachi, Mr. Valentin Croitoru, Mr. Dumitru Molceanu, and Ms. Daniela Solomca.

The official development assistance granted to the Republic of Moldova by its development partners is a valuable source with strong catalytic role for economic growth, but at the same time, it is limited as regards the coverage of all development and poverty reduction needs. Speeding the transition from more effective assistance to development cooperation in practice – for instance, placing inclusive partnership and joint liabilities in the centre of efforts – requires political coher-ence, more efficient integration of the planning, budgeting, resource mobilization process, as well as partnership actions and adequate national development planning mechanisms. A stronger and a more coherent institutional framework and a more substantial implication of central authorities is needed to implement the Busan1 commitments. The Busan Partnership Agreement highlights the importance of joint responsibility in enhancing progress partnership within and beyond the Millennium Development Goals. In particular, this refers to the commitment of development partners to assume joint liability to achieve progress in commitments and actions agreed upon in Busan and those set forth in Paris Declaration (2005) on Aid Effectiveness (2005) and Accra Agenda for Action (2008). To implement these commitments, the developing countries have been invited to take over and lead the establishment of national monitoring framework to follow the progress and promote joint responsibility. In this sense, 2013 was a prodigious year both in the evolution of strategic development projects as well as in setting forth monitoring mechanisms and their joint evaluation. Signing 29 agreements with development partners and initiating 193 projects in different sectors of the national economy calls for dedicated resources management with maximum prudence to achieve the expected results. To optimize the modernization processes, as well as to ensure increased transparency in external development aid management, the Informational External Aid Management Platform has been developed (hereinafter AMP) (www.AMP.gov.md).Official development assistance granted to the Republic of Moldova in the reporting period, which is estimated to about 5% of GDP and 13.3% of NPB, shall not be seen as a separate element from national resources directed to the development agenda implementation. The countries with eco-nomic development aspirations tend to decrease the external development aid and to mobilize other components of the development resource framework. The financial and technical support of the development partners contributes to the process of tran-sition to democracy and formation of important expertise and know-how capital. We are extreme-ly thankful to the European partners for their expertise, especially to those from the neighbouring countries of the Republic of Moldova, which had similar experience as our country.The State Chancellery would like to take this opportunity to express its gratitude to the bilateral and multilateral development partners, as well as to the central public authorities for providing the information necessary to draft this Report.

1 Busan Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (2011), agreed at the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, Republic of Korea, 29 November – 1 December 2011; http://effectivecooperation.org/about.

FOREWORD

Victor Bodiu, Secretary General of Government

Chișinău, August 2014

4 2014 Annual Report on external assistanceprovided to the Republic of Moldova

Executive Summary.....................................................................................................................................

1. Development Cooperation.........................................................................................................................

1.1. Ownership and focus on results in development cooperation.....................................................

1.2. Inclusive development partnership.............................................................................................

1.3. Transparency and joint responsibility for development results....................................................

2. Official development assistance (ODA) granted to the RM in 2013, trends and dynamics.........................

2.1 Graphic illustration of ODA by development partners and sectors..............................................

2.2 Graphic illustration of ODA by the form and type of applied instruments..................................

3. Major results of ODA by its share in the sectors of intervention.................................................................

Acronyms............................................................................................................................................

Annexes...............................................................................................................................................

A. List of external assistance projects launched in 2013..................................................................................

B. List of external assistance signed in 2013....................................................................................................

C. The Development partners take on GP indicators on Effective Development Cooperation..........................

D. Disbursed amounts by development partners by sectors, 2013....................................................................

E. List of Twinning Projects............................................................................................................................

F. Information Generated by AMP..................................................................................................................

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52014 Annual Report on external assistanceprovided to the Republic of Moldova

The annual report on external assistance (2013) granted to the Republic of Moldova by the devel-opment partners has been developed within the context of the bilateral commitments to improve development cooperation and of the joint responsibility for the achievement of development objectives, as well as transparency increase. The report has been developed based on information provided by development partners, pub-lic authorities, as well as authorities registered in the AMP. Central public authorities provided information about assistance management in a certain sector in terms of the results achieved in 2013. 34 questionnaires were sent to development partners, but only 21 provided answers.This is the Fifth National Report which analyses the external assistance provided to the Republic of Moldova for economic growth and poverty reduction purposes. It was developed by General Division for Policy Coordination, External assistance and Central Public Administration Reform of the State Chancellery as a component part of the actions taken during the Government capacity building process in coordinating external assistance and enhancing its efficiency. The volume of official development assistance contracted in 2013 is three times higher than in 2012, and accounts for Euro 623.9 million for 193 projects (Euro 212.8 million for 117 projects in 2012, respectively).The biggest contribution in 2013 was offered by EBRD and EIB by signing two financial agree-ments with a budget of Euro 300 million, which was entirely allocated for road rehabilitation. The European Union remains to be a leading development partner based on the volume of assistance in the form of grants – over Euro 135 million, annual financial allocation, being the biggest in the Eastern Partnership countries. The amount of implemented/disbursed assistance in the reporting year is of about Euro 300 million, having decreased by almost 35 per cent compared to 2012, given the absence of IMF instalments in 2013. The share of 2013 official development assistance in GDP was 5 per cent (by 3.26 per cent less than in 2012) and about 13.3 per cent in the current NPB revenues (by 8.4 per cent less than in 2012).The Informational External Aid Management Platform (AMP) has been developed in 2013, which allowed for the first time, the use of an available online instrument for all players, interested in the monitoring of external assistance implementation; the information being accessible to the wide public. The report provides a description of results achieved at national level and in the context of agree-ments on efficient development cooperation assumed on a global level, as well as achieving de-velopment results on a country level following the implementation of external assistance projects. Furthermore, the Annexes to the report present data and geospatial presentation on external assis-tance, generated by the informational platform. Data quality and use of available information are key technical and institutional elements, which optimization is under continuous development.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY


In 2011 international development community met in Busan, Republic of Korea to take account of the progress in the improved process of granting assistance. The participants agreed broadly that global economy and development picture have seen fundamental changes from defining efficiency principles of Paris Declaration in 2005 and their revision in Accra Agenda for Action in 2008. To enhance the development cooperation efficacy as a catalyst for poverty reduction, the global structures have been requested to make a fundamental change, which consists in highlighting the approaches with priority interests of the country in all agreements in the development partner-ship, importance and their different roles. Thus, the Busan Partnership Agreement2 (hereinafter Global Partnership) has formulated this change in four principles of reaching joint development goals: i) development countries set forth their own development policy, ii) focus on results, iii) inclusive development partnership, iv) transparency and joint liability. It should be mentioned that the Government of the Republic of Moldova has assumed these principles, and their application at national level was included in the agenda for more efficient development assistance. The Republic of Moldova was one of the 46 countries that participated in the Global Partnership performance evaluation, which results were examined and discussed in the first Global Partnership High-Level Meeting for effective development cooperation in Mexico (April 2014).The goal of this report is to illustrate the results of the Study on reaching the Global Partnership objectives at country level in 2012 (the study was conducted in 2013); the results included in the global report as well as the 2013 results provided by the development partners based on the questionnaire used globally in the development/ commitments achievement monitoring study. In order to monitor the achieved commitments assumed in the context of principles of efficient development assistance, ten performance indicators have been developed with a two-year monitoring periodicity. The results of the performance indicator study at country level are presented in table 1.

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2015 Targets/Objectives

1Development cooperation is focused on results aligned to the priorities of country development

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All develop-ment partners use country

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Civil society functions in an en-vironment that maximize its impli-cation and contribution to develo-pment

CIVICUS, participation faci-litation indicator

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3 Implication and contribution of private sector to development

UNDP-OCDE evaluation jointly with WB institutions

Ongoing pro-gress

4Transparency: information about development cooperation is provi-ded to the public

OCDE evaluation Applying com-mon standards

2 Global Partnership is an inclusive political forum, which comprise a number of countries and organisations worldwide that have committed to make the development cooperation more effective. It is based on an agreement signed by 160 countries, regions and organisations during the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, which took place in Busan, Republic of Korea, in 2011.

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5a+b Predictable development cooperati-on (a – annual; m – medium-term) X

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6Assistance is a component part of the budget subject to Parliamentary examination

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7Joint liability of development coo-peration actors is enhanced through inclusive evaluations

X NO YES

8 Gender equality and women em-powerment NO YES

9a The quality of PFM systems in the country 41 4.5

9b Use of PFM systems and national procurement X 30% 24 % 95%

10 Assistance is unconditional 84%

Table 1. Performance indicators of Global Partnership (monitoring results) Source: Calculations of the Monitoring and Evaluation Division of State Chancellery.

Are we able to achieve the 2015 objectives?

1.1. Ownership and focus on results in development cooperation Global Partnership Agreement considers important the role of partner country in identifying its development priorities as one of the four key principles of efficient development. The priority identification, in turn, is closely connected to another principle, and namely, focus on results. The development partners have engaged to align to priorities and policies set forth in partner countries ensuring, thus, that the investment and efforts have an ongoing impact on poverty and social inequality reduction, sustainable development and capacity building of developing countries.

Indicator Targets/Obectives for 2015 Implementation status at international level

Indicator 1. Development cooperation is focused on re-sults aligned to development priorities of the country

All development partners apply natio-nal result monitoring frame

It is too early to evaluate the progress – the indicator was piloted in 8 countries

Preliminary results suggest a higher variation between partners, but a coherent behaviour of

partners from different countries

Indicator 6. The assistance is a component part of budget subject to preliminary exami-nation

Halving the gap – halving the coopera-tion assistance inflows, which are not re-flected in the national budget. By 2015– 85% is reflected in the national budget

There is some progress – 64% of planned fi-nance is reported in national budgets. Only 7

countries have reached the level of 85%

Indicator 9. National systems are consolidated and applied

Half of the developing countries ad-vanced by at least one measurement unit (i.e. 0.5 points) on performance

evaluation scale PFM /CPIA

Reduced gap with regard to application of financial and public procurement ma-nagement system (by two thirds in the CPIA score ≥ 5; or one third in the score 3.5 - 4.5). By 2015: 57% of funds apply

national systems

Previous achievements have been maintain-ed, but more progress is required

There are no changes in the quality of public finance management systems in partner coun-

tries.

There are no changes in applying national sys-tems: application of financial and public pro-curement management systems have stayed at

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Indicator 10. Assistance is unconditional Ongoing progress in time

There is some progress – 79% of development assistance is unconditional (compared to 77%

in 2010)

Table 2. Indicators 2,6,9 and 10 of Global Partnership Source: Calculations of the Monitoring and Evaluation Division of State Chancellery.

Indicator 1. Extending the application of national indicator systems, statistics, monitoring and evaluation improves the outcome framework of countries and enhances the membership and joint responsibility This indicator was piloted in 8 countries, including in the Republic of Moldova, and has the objective to identify the application level/method of the national systems of results and national statistical data monitoring. Fig. 1 represents a correlation between information on coopera-tion assistance through measures closer to the outcome framework of the country (Axis y) and Government’s understanding towards the ability of the partners to apply and contribute to the improvement of country outcomes framework (Axis x). Data of 4 development partners (UN, WB, EU, the USA) were considered. It should be mentioned that WB, EU and the USA are closer to the application of the national outcomes framework, while the UN is lagging behind in this sense. On the other hand, the perception of the Government regarding the application of national outcomes framework by the development partners is at the level of 0.3 out of 1.0. This situation is determined by the fact that national outcomes frameworks are partly applied, while the result indicators are not much applied. Practically, all programmes/projects have other indicators devel-oped differently from the national ones or additional to the national, which decreases the role or capacity of national statistics. If the support from partners is granted via small technical assistance projects to consolidate statistical capacities, the large projects/programmes impose additional indicators or data that require additional efforts and costs for their monitoring.

Fig. 1. Correlation between the information on cooperation assistance granted via methods that are closer to the outcomes frame-work of the country and Government perception with regard to the ability of the partner to apply and contribute to the improve-ment of country outcomes framework Source: 2014 Global Partnership Report

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Indicator 6. Inserting the development funds in the national budget will align the national priorities, will allow for a more accurate and comprehensive budgeting and joint responsibility in development cooperationCompared to 2010, this indicator registers a worsening at country level in 2012. Fifty five per cent of the development assistance planned for government sector is reflected in the 2012 Public Budget Law (88% in 2010). 2013 provides for an improved situation since about 84.5% of the development assistance volume planned for gover-nment sector has been already mentioned in the Annual Budget Law approved by the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova.

The evaluation of these results will be made with special prudence, taking into account the existing discrepancy reflected in its budget by the Government and what is presented by the development partners in their disbursement forecasts. For instance, about USD 397 million were planned in 2013 by development partners for government sector, but the 2013 Budget Law indicates the amount USD 336 million, by about USD 61 million less.

Fig.2. Planned and disbursed amounts in 2013 (Fig. A) and forecast for the following years (Fig. B), millions Euro Source: Information presented by development partners and Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Moldova (in millions of Euro).

About 73% of the amounts planned for disbursement to the government sector in 2013 by foreign partners have been disbursed, a fact that shows a high level of the best use of external means (high absorption capacity).Indicator 9. Use of institutions and national systems will strengthen these institutions and systems and will reduce the transaction costs and will ensure higher responsibility at country level towards the citizens and the Parliament.Quality of public finance management3 in 2012 has not changed compared to previous evaluation in 2010 and scores 4.0 on the 1.0 to 6.0 (the highest) scale. Besides, out of 33 evaluated countries, the Republic of Moldova ranks in the group of 6 countries with ‘strong’ financial management systems. At the same time, only 30 per cent of the assistance granted to government sector uses the national financial management system and procurement system, which represents a considerable decrease compared to 2010, when this share was 70%. According to 2013 data, this chapter registers a regression trend, the share being 24%. The Diagrams in fig. 3 illustrates the use of the national systems in the implementation of technical assistance projects.

3 This indicator is based on institutional and policy evaluation made by the World Bank (CPIA); http://www.worldbank.org/ida/IRAI-2012.html

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Fig. 3. Use of national systems in 2013: national audit and public procurement systems. Source: Calculations of Monitoring and Evaluation Division.

Indicator 10. Development cooperation, which is not conditioned by specific geographic source for goods and service procurement, allows for a more efficient alignment to the national priorities and systems and ensures better value of cost-benefit balance The commitment of development partners is to ensure a better unconditional official development assistance. In 2012, this value for Moldova constituted 84 per cent of assistance volume, which represented a growth compared to 82 per cent in 2010. In 2013, resources from development partners were contracted by ‘tying’ the resources in the volume of about 74 million Euro or about 12 per cent of the total resources contracted annually.

1.2. Inclusive development partnership

In the context of the Busan Partnership Agreement, the inclusion means bigger recognition and implication of non-state actors, including private sector and civil society. The total commitment of these actors, as well as recognition of their contribution, will require more time and effort in designing development cooperation. On the other hand, the inclusion also means that the development results benefit equally all, men and women.

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Indicators Targets/Objectives for 2015 Status of implementation internationally

Indicator 2. Civil society func-tions in an environment that maximizes its implication and contribution to

Ongoing progress in time

It is too early to assess the progress – additional analyses are needed because of limited data. Mixed image with proof of positive examples of govern-ment’s efforts to facilitate the activity of civil socie-ty organisations, however, the challenges prevail in

many countriesIndicator 3. Involvement and contribution of private sector to development

Ongoing progress in timeIt is too early to assess the progress – the indicator is piloted. Other sources of proof confirm the impor-

tance of public-private dialogue quality.

Indicator 8. Gender equality and women empowerment

All developing countries have systems that trace and allocate public resources for gender equality and women

empowerment

There is a good beginning – one third of partner countries have a more systematic national gender

allocation tracing systems

Table 4. Indicators 2,3 and 8 of Global Partnership Source: 2014 Global Partnership Report

Indicator 2. By allowing civil society organizations to exercise their role of independent development actors will maximize their development contributionIn the global report, this indicator describes the states’ efforts to facilitate the NGO participation in the policy dialogue by adjusting legal or institutional framework. At this chapter, there are significant challenges, including in the Republic of Moldova. According to data of evaluation reports on NGO sustainability in Moldova4, the RM ranks as ‘sustainability in development.

Indicator 3. Promotion of more active participation of private sector in policy development and implementation and dialogue regarding reforms that have an impact on business environment will maximize the contribution of private sector to development This indicator was piloted and setting a clear evaluation indicator of the commitment of private sector in development and enhancing a more specific methodology in this complicated sector has represented a challenge. Existing evidence suggests that the initiatives to promote public-private dialogue have paid a higher attention on organizational efficiency and focus on results. It should be mentioned that in the Republic of Moldova this dialogue was institutionalised by establishing the Economic Council led by the Prime Minister, aiming at enhancing and facilitating a more efficient implication of private sector in the implementation of development agenda.

Indicator 8. Record and publication of disaggregated budget allocation per gender allow the use of these data to inform the decision-making factors and directing the investments and allocations, so they can benefit all – men and women. On this indicator, the Republic of Moldova has reported the existence of political and institutional commitment regarding the record of budgetary data disaggregated by gender and unfortunately, the systematic record and data dissemination is missing. In this respect, certain compliance measures shall be undertaken to align the data record system disaggregated by gender.

4 2012 Sustainability indicator of NGO, the 16th edition – June 2013, USAID.


1.3. Transparency and joint responsibility for development results

Transparency, as a phenomenon, has started to yield results in the Republic of Moldova, but it has to be directed more towards the country’s needs. Increased volume of available information is not transformed yet into a systemic support for strategic planning process of the developing countries.

Indicators Targets/Objectives for 2015 Status of implementation internationally

Indicator 4. Transparency: infor-mation on development cooperati-on is public

Implementation of open common standard for electronic publication of information regarding resources offered via development cooperati-

on

A good beginning has been ascertained but more progress is necessary. On average, the data provider publishes them once a year. The data is 6-9 month old and offer information for 50% of common standard data fields. The future information transparency is a challenge: 25% of providers do not publish any antici-pating information through common standard

systems

Indicator 5a. Annual forecast: ratio of development cooperation funds disbursed in the same fiscal year as planned by development partners

Halving the gap – halving the non-disbursed funds during the fis-cal year for which they were plan-

ned.

By 2015, 90% of finances will be disbursed according to the plan.

Some progress was registered– 84% of plan-ned disbursements were honoured according to

the plan (compared to 79% in 2010)

Indicator 5b. Medium term pre-dictability: the ratio of funds cove-red by medium term plans granted to partner country.

Halving the gap – halving the size of cooperation funds not covered

by future plans.

By 2015: plans cover 92% of es-timated funds for 2016, 85% for

2017 and 79% for 2018

A good beginning has been registered but more progress is needed. Expenditure plans cover 83% of total finance estimated for 2014,

of 70% for 2015 and 57% for 2016

Indicator 7. Joint accountability of cooperation actors is enhanced through inclusive evaluation

All developing countries apply common result-based evaluation

instruments

Some progress is registered – 59% of countries have common evaluation exercises. Common efforts to trace the progress are encouraged, but there is a need to have a more inclusive and

transparent process.

Table 5. Indicators 4,5 and 7 of Global Partnership Sursa: Calculele Direcţiei Monitorizare şi Evaluare

Indicator 4. Implementation of open common standards regarding transparency will improve the availability and public access to information of development cooperation and will provide a stronger basis for joint responsibility enhancement.

This indicators was globally evaluated by OCED which acknowledged the need to increase common commitment and effort of development partners, if they want to achieve the 2015 targets/ob-jectives. Publishing the information on development resources – timely, comprehensive and in medium term – is the main prerogative in achieving the commitment regarding the transparency.


At country level at this chapter, following the Busan Declaration on Transparency, a database aiming at increasing the access to information on development assistance was developed. In 2013, with the UNDP support and Development Gateway, the State Chancellery worked to identify a way to present in a more accessible and interactive manner the external assistance information. Thus, in January 2014, the new data base was launched publicly and can be accessed by anyone at www.AMP.gov.md. The platform offers the possibility of a graphic and geographic vision of information on many projects implemented with the support of external resources granted by development partners. It is a useful instrument for central and local public authorities to plan and monitor more efficiently the available resources. It is a useful platform for civil society, mass media, and the Parliament to apply their right to supervise the use of public funds.

The ArcGIS platform to visualize the projects on the geographic map of the country provides wide possibilities for application in other fields or with other purposes. Its potential is much higher. It can be used by central public authorities in the decision-making process related to public policies, as well as to present the institution’s activity results. For local public authorities, server’s possibility can be used to manage the development and to maintain the localities; efficient planning of existing resources; population data record and analysis; utility networks management and maintenance, such as water pipelines, sewage, gas pipe; development conditions for small and medium-sized enterprises; management of real estate, etc. In this regard, many authorities (Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry, mayoralty of Orhei etc.) have already started the digital publication process via the information platform installed in the institution.

Fig. 5. Projects on the geographical map of the country via ArcGIS platform.

Indicator 5. Accurate information about estimated future expenditure development plans allows to plan and allocate better the resources between and among sectors and a more efficient implementation of medium term national development strategies.According to the results of 2012 study, about 65% of the amount planned by the development partners for government sector were disbursed in the same year. 2013 indicates a positive trend; 73 per cent being disbursed from the planned amount.As for the medium term predictability, the situation is difficult and there is only 50% coverage of information about medium term resources (2014-2016).


Thus, the medium term predictability is still a challenge. The development partners have to undertake necessary actions to design their policies and procedures, so the cooperation plans can be adjusted and communicated to partner countries, and other states that are interested in relevant terms of the planning process of medium expenditure framework.

Indicator 7. A comprehensive and inclusive revision of progress serves as basis for joint responsibility for all partners at country level. This indicator will identify if a joint progress monitoring mechanism has been establish at country level, if the objectives to monitor the efficiency of development assistance have been set forth, and if this monitoring takes place in a participatory manner and if their results are made public. It should be noted that in the Republic of Moldova these mechanisms are institutionalised via sector committees and Joint Partnership Council and via annual evaluations of support portfolios of development partners. It should be decided to what extent these are functional to enhance their importance. At the level of investment projects and budgetary support programme, joint monitor-ing is ensured by Supervision Councils established to trace successful implementation of projects. Besides, once in two years, Moldova participates in global evaluation of the Global Partnership commitments to make the cooperation more efficient. At country level, the evaluation will be done annually, using the same global indicators.

The analysis of external assistance volume in the context of some macroeconomic indicators shows how the volume of external resources is offered compared to foreign direct investments or remit-tances, as well as the share of these resources in GDP and NPB revenues. It is ascertained that the received remittances are five times bigger as volume than the external assistance, while the foreign direct investments are twice smaller than external assistance.

Fig. 5. Major financial flows for the Republic of Moldova (million Euro) Source: Balance of payments, BNM, Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Moldova and development partners

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Fig. 6. ODA share in GDP and NPB (in %) Source: Calculations of Monitoring and Evaluation Direction

The volume of cooperation assistance granted to the Republic of Moldova is growing continuously every year. The decrease of amounts in 2013 compared to 2012 is explained by lack of instalments paid by the IMF.

Fig. 7. Official Development Assistance disbursed in 2005-2013 (million Euro) Source: Information submitted by the development partners and Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Moldova.

Fig. 8 represents the partner group of the Republic of Moldova. It can be said that the EU jointly with other EU countries remains the biggest/ most important partner according to the volume of disbursements, followed by WB, the USA Government and the UN. The category others includes Swiss Confederation, Japan, People’s Republic of China, the Global Fund to Fight Tuberculosis and AIDS.

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Note: AMP Information was reflected as disbursed for projects that were closed/suspended before 2013, which determined the increase of figures effectively disbursed in 2013. Since the platform was recently launched, we have requested the contribution of partners and CPA to complete the financial data according to the projects implemented every year. Once the data is revised within the AMP platform, the amounts on dis-bursement should be close to the amounts in the reports of donors.

2. 1. Graphic illustration of ODA by development partners and sectors.

Cooperation with development partners continued in 2013, as well as the negotiations to launch new important projects in the national economy. Thus, the volume of new contracts in the current year accounts for about Euro 624 million and 193 projects. The launched projects will be implemented in such fields as road rehabilitation, building a state based on the rule of law and development of health system.

Fig. 10. Volume of projects under implementation in 2013 (million Euro) Source: AMP (amp.gov.md)

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In case of ongoing projects and those launched in the reporting year, the transport and storage, governance and civil society sectors receive the highest volumes of external resources used to implement reforms and investment in the sector; Euro 300 million were contracted from EBRD and EIB to rehabilitate the roads. As for the rule of law, EU has launched a budgetary support program in the amount of Euro 60 million for justice sector reform. Besides, to ensure the observance of human rights, the construction of a new penitentiary has started, which costs about Euro 45 million. Institutional capacity building is ensured significantly by the European Union by offering 30 million euro for Twinning and technical assistance projects. As opposed to ongoing projects for which the EU has offered the biggest volume of assistance in 2013, the European banks are those who have started projects with a budget bigger than EU resources.

Fig. 12. Ongoing projects in 2013 (by sectors, million Euro) Source: AMP (amp.gov.md)

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From the sector point of view, for the second consecutive year, the transport and storage sector is leading according to the budget of ongoing projects, with substantial resources used to rehabilitate the roads. Governance and civil society sector ranks second with resources attracted to implement public administration reform, institutional capacity building and rule of law. The graphic in fig. 13 illustrates the disbursed amounts in 2013 at sector level according to infor-mation presented by the development partners and AMP. As in the case of amounts reflected in fig. 13 the discrepancy is obvious, because AMP does not offer yet a qualitative information about external assistance flows.

Fig. 13. The disbursed amounts in 2013 at sector level from two sources of information (million Euro) Source: AMP (amp.gov.md)

Other: Social infrastructure and services, trade policy and laws and trade-related adjustment; forestry, communications, financial and banking services, constructions.

2.2. Graphic illustration of ODA by the form and type of applied instruments

Fig. 14. Ongoing projects and projects started in 2013 by financing instrument Source: AMP (amp.gov.md)

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In 2013, lending resources were contracted to implement investment projects to rehabilitate the roads and social infrastructure. The share of loans in the total external resources accounted for 70% of total commitments. The entire portfolio of ongoing external assistance has the ratio of 44/56 credits/grants, respectively.As for economic classification of projects, a new element appeared in reports on external assis-tance, i.e. current expenditure compared to capital expenditure accounts for 38% of total ongoing portfolio and about 29% of amounts committed during the reporting year. In absolute amounts, capital investment accounts for about 1.4 billion Euro from the ongoing portfolio.At the same time, although the share of capital investments from external sources accounts for about 70%, it only accounts for about 45% of total capital investments of the Government, the rest being covered from national revenues.

Fig. 15. Ongoing and contracted projects in 2013 by economic classification Source: AMP (amp.gov.md)

Accra Agenda for Action specifies the need and commitment of partners to reduce the fragmen-tation of development assistance by improving complementary efforts of donors, as well as labour division between donors via improved allocation of resources and partner countries. Labour division has several dimensions, two of which are discussed internationally: labour division between countries focused on the procedure to distribute the assistance between and in- countries, distribution between donors of portfolios at the partner country level. The main objective of labour division efforts is a more rational allocation, allocation of develop-ment assistance which translates into a higher complementarity, better alignment and significant reduction of transaction costs. With all efforts made under this aspect and at country level, the issue of fragmentation is acute and cannot contribute to the achievement of the development objective. Small steps have been made to reduce the overcrowding and fragmentation. Thus, in 2009, one donor was present in 16 sectors, and in 2013 one donator was present in 11 sectors. A rate of about 90% of assistance volume implemented in the Republic of Moldova (as of 31 December 2013) is reported by 8 development partners and 10 per cent is reported by 30 partners. Sectors most populated by donor’s presence are: governance and civil society, education, other social infrastructure and services, business and other services and health with a coverage from 15 to 8 in the respective sectors. The number of projects under the average public procurement threshold (≤ 249 thousand Euro, according to EU thresholds) accounts for about 52% (102) of total number of projects launched in 2013 and reports to only 1.5% of ongoing assistance value.

Capital 71%

Current 29%

Capital 62%

Current 38%

Launched in 2013Ongoing in 2013


From what has been mentioned above, it can be concluded that to reach better results in imple-menting sector reforms, which would lead to an obvious economic growth and improvement of standards of living, it is important for the allocated resources, which are limited, to be directed towards priority sectors. This concept forms the foundation of National Development Strategy Moldova 2020, which has identified several sectors that need higher medium- and long-term support and attention.

Fig. 16. Share of external assistance in sectors by ongoing projects Source: AMP (amp.gov.md)

* Other development partners: People’s Republic of China, Kingdom of Denmark, Swiss Confederation; Global Fund to Fighting AIDS, Tuber-culosis and Malaria; Principality of Liechtenstein; Global Education Fund; Czech Republic; OSCE; Kingdom of Norway; Republic of Turkey; Holland; Republic of Italy; Slovak Republic; Republic of Finland; Republic of Estonia; Republic of Poland; Ireland; the Grand Duchy of Lux-embourg; the Kingdom of Belgium; Bulgaria; Hungary; Council of Europe, international NGOs.

* Other sectors: Tourism; industry; trade policy and laws; mineral resources and mining; forestry; population reproduction health policies and programmes, communications, humanitarian aid; refugees in financing countries.

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European Union (EU)The European Union continues to be the biggest development partner of the Republic of Moldova; financing being granted from National Indicative Programme 2011-2013 with an annual financial envelope of about Euro 135 million (including amounts granted from the Eastern Partnership Integration and Cooperation (EaPIC).

MAJOR RESULTS OF ODA BY ITS SHAREIN THE SECTORS OF INTERVENTION

Eastern Partnership Integration and Cooperation (EaPIC) offers additional financial assistance to Eastern Partnership countries (EaP) to implement reforms in real democracy and observance of human rights fields.

This mechanism is in accordance with joint responsibility and differentiation principles introduced in 2011 when the European Neighbouring Policy “The enhanced EU support to its neighbours is conditioned. This will depend on progresses in democracy building and enhancing and observance of rule of law. The quicker a country progresses in its internal reforms, the bigger is the support of the EU”.

EaPIC Programme financing is received from European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument. This is the main financial and cooperation instrument for Eastern and Southern neighbourhood countries and Russia in 2007-2013.

Total EaPIC financing (2012-2013) accounts for 152 million Euro.

In 2012, the Republic of Moldova benefited from additional funds for reforms in justice sector, access to health services, as well as economic stimulation in rural areas (28 million Euro).

To increase the economic opportunities in rural areas, to promote reforms in energy sector (including access to renewable energy), and to increase the cooperation with the Council of Europe, the Republic of Moldova has benefited from 35 mln Euro in 2013.

The Republic of Moldova benefited from about 63% of Programme amounts compared to other countries of the Eastern Partnership, followed by Georgia (49%) and Armenia (40%).

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REGIONAL PROJECTS OF EUROPEAN UNION IN THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA (2013)

Support of Confidence Building Measures

Energy and Biomass in Moldova

Rehabilitation of Water Supply

Strengthening the Socio-Economic Situation of Teens in Moldova

Sustainable Development in the Technology Sector of

Renewable Energy Production

Public-Private Partnership for the Sustainable Development of

services administered locally

Informing about Social Acts with regard to the Rights and Measures

of Protection and Prevention of Senior Citizen Abuse

Fixed and mobile communications network for

Border Control Service of the Republic of Moldova

Water Utilities Development Program

Projects for Road Rehabilitation

European Union Assistance in Border Control

Enforcement of Forest Legislation, ENPI FLEG Program


Budgetary support from EU

The sector budget support programmes (more than 50% from the 2013 envelope) represents a considerable share in annual EU action plans. In the reporting period, 5 sector programmes have been implemented.

No. NAP Sector

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1. 2007 Social 21 20 1 0 20 Completed - - -

2. 2008 Health 46,6 43,45 3,15 6 38,97 Ongoing 6 0 6

3. 2009 Water and Sewage 45 37 3* 5 32,03 Ongoing 13 0 13

4. 2010Economic sti-mulation in rural areas

45 42 3 27 29 Ongoing 13 13 14

5. 2011 Energy 42,6 40 2,6 10 13 Ongoing 13 11,61 14,5

6. 2012 Justice Reform 52 50,2 1,8 8 0 Ongoing 15 15 15

7. 2013 Vocational Education 25 - - - - Under

preparation - - 0

8. 2013 Viza free regime 20 - 1 - - Under preparation - - 6*

Total 297,2 232,65 15,6 56 133 60 39,61 68,5*

Mil. euro, as of 31 December 2013 Source: State Chancellery

* Under the conditions of anticipated disbursement of first instalment based on Visa Free Regime Programme

All five budget support programmes have registered significant results at sector level, both in public policy field and capital investment field. Thus, the following has been achieved with the support of Economic Stimulation of Rural Areas Programme (ESRA): building a business incubator in Ceadar-Lunga town and enhancing the grant fund of National Programme for Economic Empower-ment of Youth, Credit Guarantee Fund, PARE 1+1 Programme of the Agency for Interventions and Payments in Agriculture with MDL 150 million, which awarded over one thousand grants. Besides, ESRA has offered support to improve the institutional capacities in the field of business develop-ment. Budget support in health field has contributed to the procurement of modern equipment for Medical University Simulation Centre of Moldova, as well as to develop/approve the Curriculum and academic programmes for subjects taught at this Centre. At the same time, state-of-art public health laboratories have been created at local level and throughout the Republic and equipment was procured, in accordance with the recommendations of the World Health Organisation. With the assistance of budget support programme in the field of water and sewage, in 2013, about 35 thousand people were connected to water pipelines, over 20 thousands to sewage systems and the sewage systems were rehabilitated in 14 schools. Furthermore, during the reporting year, Water Supply and Sanitation Strategy for 2014-2018 has been developed. The Strategy was approved and published at the beginning of 2014. Due to budgetary support in justice sector, the budget of the Ministry of Justice has increased by 60% in 2013 compared to 2012, a fact that led to successful implementation of policies foreseen in the Justice Sector Reform Strategy and transfer of juveniles into a modern penitentiary institution, salary increase in justice sector, etc. The budgetary support in the energy sector has made possible the development and improvement of primary and secondary legislation, as well as investments in energy efficiency and energy recovery from renewable source actions. Thanks to this support, 360 European and international standards in energy field have been adopted in 2013. Moreover, the capital for energy efficiency fund has increased by about MDL 200 million in 2013 and over MDL 170 million in 2014. From these funds, the first 84 projects in the field of energy efficiency and renewable energy have been approved.


At the same time, from the 2013 annual financial envelope, two more budget support programmes have been negotiated and approved, such as visa free regime (21 Euro million) and vocational education (25 Euro million). The first programme has the purpose to consolidate the institution-al capacities responsible for successful implementation of European Union visa free regime. The support to vocational education will redesign reforms in vocational education, having the purpose to support the enhancement of vocational education efficiency to create a competitive and qualified labour force, in accordance with actual and future market requirements. The efforts that led to successful achievement of policy commitments of budget support programmes were generously appreciated, and respectively, additional funds from the EU in the amount of Euro 35 million euro have been allocated (based on the ”more for more” principle). ESRA Programme (13 mln Euro), energy (10 Euro million), energy and biomass (9.46 Euro million), Action Plan of the Republic of Moldova – Council of Europe (2.54 Euro million) will contribute to the implementation of sector reforms.Six Twinning projects were ongoing in 2013. One has been finalised, and the other one has started this year. The most significant results of these projects were to develop a database to monitor the pesticides, building capacity of financial management, approval of Regional Strategy for 2013-2015, reorganisation and making Consumer Protection Agency more efficient, etc.

Fig. 19. Use of EU TAIEX instrument Source: European Commission

The public institutions of the Republic of Moldova organised 119 TAIEX events, attended by 2382 public servants. Out of 16 neighbouring states of the European Union, the Republic of Moldova is the most active, which is being confirmed by numerous TAIEX applications, which is over 25% of total number of applications.

Twinning is an instrument for cooperation between a public institution in a beneficiary country and peer institution in an EU member state in a certain field. This has the purpose to improve/modernize the institution in the beneficiary country, as well as to develop new normative acts in accordance with EU acquis.

TAIEX is a technical assistance and information exchange instrument managed by the Euro-pean Commission’s Directorate General for Enlargement. TAIEX grants support to partner countries to transpose, apply and enforce EU legislation. This is determined by the demand that facilitates adequate individual experience to meet the short turn needs.

Missions of experts; 32

Workshops; 33

Study tours; 52


Neighbourhood Investment Facility, Confidence building measures and others.

Besides the programmes mentioned above within the annual envelopes, in 2013 the Confidence Building Project (CBP part I) was implemented aiming at settling the Transnistrian conflict. With the support of CBP Project, the rehabilitation of about 40 social institutions have been conducted in the security zone; more than 40 events and training were organised; i) the SMEs capacities to participate in specialised international fairs and exhibitions have been consolidated; ii) enhancing the cooperation between the states on both banks of the River Nistru; iii) improving the capacities of the mass media, etc. At the same time, 28 million Euro were negotiated during the report-ing year and directed to the Second Confidence Building Project. Administrative Territorial Unit Gagauzia will benefit from this Programme (5 Euro million), too. The Neighbourhood Investment Facility (NIF) of the European Union, meant to cover the investment needs of neighbouring region (in transport, energy, environment and social issues), has contributed to the rehabilitation of 22 km of national road on the Balti-Sarateni section; procurement of 23 trolleybuses for Balti municipality. Besides, 8 million Euro were offered to rehabilitate the electricity transportation grids.Apart from budget support in energy sector, the Energy and Biomass Project in Moldova contributes to the implementation of energetic efficiency strategies. In the reporting period, with financial and technical support of the project, the installation of 50 biomass boilers has begun and 37 quality standards for biomass fuel have been approved. At the same time, training and seminars on the subject with different partners were organised, attended by over 100 thousand people. To ensure the energy independence by diversifying the sources, the construction of gas pipeline Iasi–Ungheni has started in 2013 and was financed by EU Romania–Ukraine–Republic of Moldova Cross-Border Programme.

European Banks

The European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEDB) are European financial insti-tutions represented in the Republic of Moldova with financial support for implementing major infrastructure projects. The activity fields of these three institutions in 2013 are: road infrastructure, water and sewage and buildings for social purposes. EBRD and EIB are the biggest partners that contribute to the improvement/rehabilitation of road infrastructure. With the support of these two banks, 65 km of national road was rehabilitat-ed integrally on M2 Chisinau–Soroca section and about 8 km of road on R3 Chisinau–Hancesti section in 2013. At the same time, the technical procedures to implement the rehabilitation project of six main streets in the Chisinau mun. have started in the reporting period, financed by EBRD, EIB and EU. The project has to be implemented in 2014-2015. Also, to continue the implemen-tation of the Water and Wastewater Treatment Programme in Chisinau mun., a new Agreement between JSC Apa-Canal Chisinau and EBRD, EIB and EU in the amount of Euro 60 million was signed for the rehabilitation of about 190 km of pipeline. In the water sector, with the support of these development partners, the implementation of Water Companies Development Programme has continued by rehabilitating more than 300 km of pipeline, about 36 km of sanitation and 11 artesian wells. Another joint EBRD, EIB and EU project has started in 2013 (financial agreements were signed in 2012), which refers to the rehabilitation of State-owned Company Moldelectrica. With the project assistance, the regional interconnection would be consolidated, so the Republic of Moldova is integrated in the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E).


To modernize the public transport in Balti mun., all technical procedures were carried out in 2013 to procure 23 new trolleybuses from the EBRD and EU funds. The procurement took place in 2014. To develop the wine sector, the EIB and EU finance the Reform of the Wine Sector Restructuring Programme, which financed 11 investment projects with a budget over 11 million Euro.With the support of the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEDB), a public housing construction project has started in 12 towns for social vulnerable strata in 2013. The construction of the first 115 apartments started in Calarasi, Briceni and Sangerei. Besides, CEBD signed an agree-ment with the Republic of Moldova to implement the biggest investment project in the Republic of Moldova, and namely, the construction of a penitentiary institution for 1536 detainees, which will contribute to the observance of human rights of detainees, as well as decrease of the number of detainees’ complaints of the Republic of Moldova in the European Court of Human Rights World Bank (WB)

The Country Partnership Strategy for 2014-2017 was signed in 2013 with a budget of over 570 million, which foresees support to economic growth and poverty reduction in the Republic of Moldova. The strategy is based on three pillars: (i) enhanced competitiveness; (ii) strengthen human capital and minimization of social risks, and (iii) promoting an ecological/green, clean and resistant Moldova.Active portfolio of ongoing WB projects in 2013 accounted for 19 per cent with a budget of about USD 200 million and a more significant contribution in education, social and information technologies sectors. Five more projects have been negotiated and launched in 2013 with a budget of about USD 55 million for reforms in education, agriculture and external audit. Similarly, 4 WB projects were completed in 2013 in the following fields: I. National Water Supply and Sanitation Programme with a budget of USD 14 million concluded with the rehabilitation of about 100 km of pipeline, 2.4 km of sewage, 9 artesian wells, which benefited 20 thousand citizens;II. Competitiveness Enhancement Project, which contributed to the enhancement of business environment by adjusting the legal framework in line with EU acquis, consultations with and loans to business environment. In total, 96 sub-projects have been approved for financing in agriculture and light industry sector;III. Central Public Administration Reform Project was funded from WB Trust Fund. In the year of reference, the modernisation process of public services has started, carrying out a comprehen-sive analysis of public services and developing the Concept of public service upgrade. At the same time, the Automatic Information System Register of public function and public servants has been finalised;IV. Quality Education in Rural Areas Project, which assisted in procuring and distributing teaching materials, as well as to implement the upgraded curriculum. The competitive agriculture is a desideratum for the Republic of Moldova. In this context, a project financed by the WB has been launched, which in the year of reference has completed all technical procedures to enforce the signature of financial agreement. The investment and rural services project has continued its activity in the reporting year, and signed 8 mini-projects in fruit and vegetable farming, as well as livestock farming. Over 2000 farmers benefited from support for wheat and corn loss compensation as a result of 2012 drought.


The United Nations (UN)

The cooperation with the United Nations takes place in accordance with the fields foreseen in the UN Partnership Framework - Republic of Moldova 2013-2017 (signed in December 2012) with the following key pillars: (i) democratic governance, justice, equality and human rights; (ii) human capital development and social inclusion; (iii) environment, climate change and disaster risk management. Even in the first year of implementing the Partnership Framework, the UN kept its focus on marginalised/disadvantaged population (??), as well as promotion of reforms. The UN is the main development partner in the field of technical cooperation and political dialogue facilitation. In order to create a democratic governance and build a state based on the rule of law, 16 sector strategies and action plans, as well as more than 20 normative acts were developed. The Parlia-ment, Ministry of Internal Affairs and National Anticorruption Centre were among the most important public authorities that benefited from assistance in applying the Strategies to enhance the performance of public servants, and fighting crime phenomenon. The UNHCR carried out two specialised trainings for Centru Court and Chisinau Court of Appeal regarding asylum and statelessness; to establish/train/create/found/build a legal practice for interested lawyers, public servants and students, which serves as formation centre in the field of asylum and statelessness, and 20 training courses and workshops were organised by the end of 2013. A very intense collaboration took place between the UN institutions and National Institute of Justice in the Republic of Moldova in the field of human rights, and more than 200 judges and prosecutors were trained in the anti-discrimination field. To increase the transparency of subjects responsible for coordination of external assistance, the UNDP has offered support for the development and implementation of the external assistance management platform. For the implementation of the second pillar – human capital development and social inclusion, the UN offered support in developing the national program to prevent school dropout. As for violence prevention, 115 local trainers and over 1200 people have been trained (tutor teacher, educators, civil servants in raion education divisions). To modernize the quality evaluation system in general education, UNICEF has offered support in the development of education quality standards, which were tested in 15 schools from 3 raions. Support was offered in the field of edu-cation to develop Child friendly schools concept, applied in 15 schools, where 396 teachers were trained to apply result-based standards. With the UNDP support, the Career Development Centre SYSLAB has been developed, which in the reporting period offered 5040 individual counselling sessions, 96 group training courses and 210 on-site visits to companies, as a result of which, 62 people found work. Significant support is offered by the UNDP within the Confidence Building Measures Programme funded by the EU, which will implement over 80 projects in the social field. A substantial support was offered by the UN agencies to government institutions in developing and implementing normative acts and sector strategies in the field of public health, vocational and general education, decentralization. The UNDP has offered all the necessary support to the National Bureau of Statistics to prepare the 2014 Population and Housing Census.With the support of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), only in the reporting year, 1152 loans were awarded to 1186 beneficiaries (SMEs, farmers in the rural area, young entrepreneurs) to develop rural areas. 40% of the financial support awarded to young entrepreneurs was in the form of grants. 1270 new jobs were created with the assistance of these loans. Also, 4.38 km of road and 5.71 km of pipeline were rehabilitated. Also, in order to ensure Program sustainability, about 93 rural entrepreneurs benefited from assistance in developing business plans financed within projects, over 1200 agricultural producers benefited from training in agriculture.


With the UNIDO support, the Republic of Moldova has registered progresses in enhancing the productivity of resources and decreasing the pollution level, by offering modern technical systems to 25 companies to reduce pollution. The post-implementation monitoring at 7 enterprises has discovered 720.000 kWh energy savings, 6300 m3 water and more than 7000 tons of materials. Moreover, the interventions led to a reduction by 6300 tons of waste waters and 450 tons of greenhouse gas emissions, which constitute USD 240 thousand savings.

Bilateral Partners

The Government of the United States of America (the USA) is the main bilateral development partner, to great extent, due to Compact Program, which has plans to contribute to population’s income increase by eliminating or reducing some critical constraints which refer to the unsat-isfactory state of road infrastructure, and easy transit to a developed agriculture, especially to renovate the irrigation systems. Thus, by the end of 2013, 60 km of road out of 93 km planned for rehabilitation have been rehabilitated on Sarateni–Soroca section. Also, the rehabilitation works of 14 bridges on the section have started, as well as rehabilitation of Soroca town centre. To improve the agricultural sector, the irrigation systems rehabilitation works have started in 2013 in Criuleni and Lopatna, which were the first two out of 11 irrigation systems planned for rehabilitation. Besides the two key elements of Compact Programme mentioned previously, it offered support in other fields, such as improving the legal framework in water sector and granting loans to farmers.The business environment is an important field where the USA offers assistance. Thus, over 260 enterprises benefited from technical support to improve/optimize business process and manage-ment. Eloquent results of this support are: the biggest furniture shop, which hosts more than 15 local furniture producers; promotion of local products outside the country; supporting local farmers to participate in the most important exhibition of fresh products in Europe, as a result of which, more than 150 contracts between local and foreign producers have been signed. To consolidate the capacities of local public authorities, the assistance from the USA Govern-ment is directed to improve the provision of local public services, to enhance local revenues and improve financial management, as well as the assistance in developing and implementing local plans with the support of energy efficiency projects in towns. Thus, 21 training sessions were conducted, which were attended by about 400 people and civil servants in the module Excellence in Local Management. Besides, 4 additional training sessions were organised in the field of local public finance system and budgetary preparation for about 200 selected persons and civil servants in 100 localities. 32 raion residential towns benefited from assistance in strategic planning to ensure an enhanced transparency in decision-making process at local level and to improve the communication between interested parties; the Communication Guide for LPA was developed with the support of the USAID, which laid the foundation for the development and approval of the mayoralty regulations on communication. The rule of law is the third pillar which is supported by the USA. In this sense, the National Justice Institute has benefited from training to consolidate the capacities of 50 heads of secretaries of courts, as well as training courses in the following fields: performance-based budgets, centralised public procurement and internal audit in courts. The Ministry of Justice was supported in the revision and adjustment process of the Module from the integrated file management programme, which addresses the evaluation of cause complex-ity in the programme, random case distribution (who and to whom?) and access to databases, programme integration with digital audio recording system Femida etc. To reduce the subjective factors in courts, the USAID has assisted in the procurement of 38 sets of audio recording devices/equipment for sessions and 226 recorders. Most people, who use these technologies (officers of the court, assistants, judges, etc.), were trained.


Romania ranks among bilateral partners with the highest amounts of external assistance allocated to ongoing projects in 2013. This fact is due to the commitment in the form of grant amounting to Euro 100 mln., which is implemented for infrastructure projects. Thus, in the reporting period, this project has allocated over Euro 5 million to co-finance the construction project of the gas pipeline Iasi–Ungheni. Besides, the Additional Protocol was signed, according to which, Euro 15 mln. have to be provided to projects in the field of environment protection and climate change projects, after the Protocol enters into force.Japan is in the top three development partners. In 2013, a 45 million Euro project has been launched to improve medical services by providing medical equipment to hospitals of the Republic of Moldova. Five hospitals (Republican Clinical Hospital, Scientific Research Institute of Mother and Child Health Protection, National Scientific Practical Centre for Emergency Medicine, Institute of Oncology, Municipal Clinic Hospital Sfânta Treime) and 11 Public Health Centres (National Centre in Chisinau, Municipal Centre of Chisinau, Edinet, Balti, Soroca, Ungheni, Orhei, Hancesti, Causeni, Cahul, Gagauzia) will benefit from this project and will be equipped with modern medical devices. At the same time, Japan remains a loyal partner in agriculture, especially in offering assistance to disfavoured farmers. 305 agricultural devices and equipment were procured in 2013, which has contributed to the creation of 385 new jobs. Rural development and energy efficiency is another priority of Japan. In 2013, Japan offered about Euro 9 mln. to implement projects in the field of efficient use of biomass solid fuel.The Kingdom of Sweden, Federal Republic of Germany and Republic of Austria rank in the top 10 biggest development partners in the Republic of Moldova, providing an essential support in regional development, human rights, energy etc. With the support of the Kingdom of Sweden, a number of institutional measures were achieved in the field of investment climate reform, succeeding the decrease of number of authorities that have the right to audit from 64 to 33, and the control process has become clearer and more efficient with clear terms and appeal procedures. Besides, it assisted in the development of Control Register Regulation and adoption of National Action Plan in Energy Efficiency field for 2013-2015. The Federal Republic of Germany is a development partner in achieving structural reforms and im-provement of local infrastructure in the Republic of Moldova. German partners provide assistance especially to regional development agencies, as well as Ministry of Regional Development and Construction. The representatives of the Ministry were trained in efficient communication and implementation of Programmes and financing instruments of EU and others. At regional level, via regional development agencies, 5 projects were implemented, with a budget of over Euro 3 million. At the same time, sector regional planning process has been initiated in the following fields: (i) solid waste management, (ii) water and sanitation, (iii) energy efficiency of public buildings, and (iv) road infrastructure.The Republic of Austria offers support in the implementation of social development policies. In the education, with the support offered by the Austrian Government, the modern modular Curriculum for information technologies and communications specialisation has been devel-oped, the initial training project of professional centre for promotion in construction sector in the Republic of Moldova had been initiated. The cooperation with UniCredit Bank has continued and more financial resources have been attracted to implement phase II of equipping the Republican Clinical Hospital with medical devices. At the same time, with the support of Austrian partners, the construction project of pipeline in Nisporeni has started.Although, the People’s Republic of China does not rank in the first 10 development partners, its support in 2013 has contributed to the finalization of road traffic monitoring report implemen-tation, which even in the first months of implementation helped to register about 16450 traffic violations, which were fined with over MDL 5 mln. The result of installing video surveillance has been already expressed in the decrease of accidents in the monitored intersections by 40% and of the death number by 60%. At the same time, two financial agreements were signed with the People’s Republic of China in 2013, with a budget of over Euro 10 mln., and the projects are planned to be launched in 2014.


AMP Informational External Aid Management Platform

CPA Central Public Authority

ODA Official Development Assistance

CEB Council of Europe Development Bank

EIB European Investment Bank

EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

WB World Bank

NPB National public budget

ESRA Economic Stimulation of Rural Areas Programme

NIV Neighbourhood Investment Facility

MF Ministry of Finance

OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

NGO Non-governmental organisation

UN United Nations

OSCE Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe

UNDP United Nations Development Programme

GDP Gross Domestic Product

RM Republic of Moldova

SIDA Sweden Agency for International and Development Cooperation

SCBM Confidence building measures

USA United States of America

TAIEX Technical Assistance and Information Exchange instrument

UE European Union

UNHCR United Nations Higher Commissioner for Refugees

UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development Organisation

ACRONYMS


A N N E X E S

A. List of external assistance projects launched in 2013

TitleBeginning Financing

instruments Development

partnerDAC / OECD

sectors Budget (Euro)End

Supporting the Republic of Moldova to implement the EU-Moldova Action Plan on Visa Liberalisation

01/01/2013Grant

European Union Governance and civil society 1 200 000

01/01/2015

Technical assistance to the Bureau for Rein-tegration of the Republic of Moldova

18/03/2013Grant European Union Governance and

civil society 769 28815/09/2014

Enhancing the response capacity of the Mobile Emergency Service for Resuscita-tion and Extrication (SMURD), in case of preparation and urgent intervention in the common boundaries of Romania, Ukraine and Republic of Moldova

07/03/2013

Grant European Union Governance and civil society 1 000 700

07/03/2015

Re-equipment and maintenance of protocol room of the Ministry of External Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Moldova

25/04/2013

Grant Republic of Turkey

Governance and civil society 219 800

23/06/2013

Financing Agreement between the Govern-ment of the Republic of Moldova and Eu-ropean Union on Framework Programme in support of the current and new agreements between the European Union and the Re-public of Moldova

14/06/2013


14/06/2018

Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Moldova and Government of People’s Republic of China on economic and technical cooperation

10/07/2013

Grant China Governance and civil society 8 000 000

10/07/2018

Strengthening and development of the insti-tutional capacity of the Bureau of Migration and Asylum - strengthening legal and insti-tutional framework for better governance of migration and asylum system

01/10/2013

Grant Romania Governance and civil society 150 000

30/09/2014

Second Line of Defence Programme (SLD): Battelle Memorial Institute Pacific North-west Division

30/07/2013Grant USA Governance and

civil society 45 43429/07/2014

Financial Agreement between the Republic of Moldova and EBRD of Road Rehabilita-tion Project IV

28/06/2013 Preferential credit EBRD Transport and

storage 150 000 00031/07/2017

Loan Agreement between EIB and RM on Road Rehabilitation Project IV

25/06/2013 Preferential credit EIB Transport and

storage 150 000 00031/07/2017

Balti Trolleybus Company - twinning part-nership in public transport

11/04/2013Grant EBRD Transport and

storage 93 90009/10/2014

Grant Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Moldova and Govern-ment of Japan on implementation of the Efficient Use of Biomass Solid Fuel Project

26/06/2013Grant Japan

Generation and supply of elec-tricity

9 016 41431/03/2017

Children with future – a future for children01/10/2013

Grant AustriaOther social in-frastructure and services

84 29630/09/2016

Support to development of Home Care services in Moldova 2011-2013

01/04/2013Grant Czech Republic

Other social in-frastructure and services

435 76531/03/2016


Abuse of Older Adults Prevention Project in the Republic of Moldova

01/01/2013Grant European Union


179 92201/01/2015

International Labour Organisation Project – Jobs for Young People of the Republic of Moldova in 2013

01/01/2013Grant ONU


31 75201/07/2013

University collaboration network at the Black Sea

18/04/2013Grant Republic of

Turkey Education 45 26718/04/2015

Developing inter-university Regional Start-up Centres

15/10/2013Grant European Union Education 100 000

14/10/2015

Education reform project 01/07/2013 Preferential

credit World Bank Education 31 007 60029/11/2018

Prevention and treatment of Diabetes in Chisinau

01/08/2013Grant Czech Republic Health 170 768

31/12/2014

Development of Home Care services in the North of the Republic


30/12/2015Financing Agreement between the Govern-ment of the Republic of Moldova and the Government of Japan to finance the En-chaining of Medical Services Project

27/06/2013Preferential credit Japan Health 46 521 742

27/06/2023

Credit Agreement between Unicredit Bank Austria an RM on financing ”Improvement of Medical Services in RCHM phase II” project

09/07/2013Preferential credit Austria Health 7 300 000

09/07/2014

Promotion of sustainable production and implementation of the best practices in cattle farms in the cross-border region Ro-mania, Rep. Moldova and Ukraine

01/10/2013Grant European Union Agriculture 416 000

31/07/2015

Cross-Border Ecological Agriculture Net-work, “EcoAgriNet 2”


31/03/2015Transparent Convergence to EU Policies in Sanitary Issues: the Case of Georgia and Moldova


29/02/2016

Establishing a three lateral cross-border network for development and trade in tradi-tional agro food products in the cross-border area of Lower Danube


08/08/2015

Promoting planning and participatory plan-ning as efficient mechanism for enabling community and sustainable local develop-ment

18/01/2013Grant European Union Multi-sector 386 347

18/07/2014

Use of water flows in putting down forest fires with new technologies

02/04/2013Grant European Union Forestry 113 233

02/04/2015

Development and management of integrat-ed urban development plans


14/10/2014

Moldova towards regional and cross-bor-der development of EU “REGDEV”


31/08/2016 Rehabilitation of polluted lands with pe-troleum hydrocarbon resin in Lunga and Marculesti

21/08/2013Grant Czech Republic Multi-sector 507 270

30/11/2015

Production and installation of camps for Executive Committee Building and Popular Assembly of the ATU Gagauzia


Turkey


1 93031/10/2013

Involvement of citizens in setting prior-ities, development and implementation of local development policies (SolveNet)


civil society 448 86110/12/2014

Danube – black sea connection of Europe-an and Asian economy, a step for substantial growth of the black sea area (DAB) -1

14/07/2013Grant European Union Transport and

storage 598 62513/07/2014


SIDE BY SIDE Tri-nodal network for tourism promotion and development in Galati-Cahul-Reni cross-border region

15/08/2013Grant European Union Tourism 652 187

14/02/2015

The Maritime Network of Education for the Development of the Maritime Culture in the Black Sea Basin



329 64711/11/2015

Business environment – sustainable pro-motion and development

30/08/2013Grant European Union Business and other

services 232 66029/12/2014

Strengthening the Transplant Agency of the Republic of Moldova and support for legal approximation in quality and safety quality of substances of human origin

01/12/2013Grant European Union Health 1 178 464

01/12/2015

Grant Agreement between the Republic of Moldova and International Association for Development on ”Integration of children with special needs in general schools” - FISM

06/08/2013

Grant World BankOther social in-frastructure and services

2 156 05005/08/2016

Development of the agricultural sector by creating the border agricultural network

01/11/2013Grant European Union Agriculture 2 401 568

31/08/2015

Sustainable transport and tourism along the Danube


31/12/2014 Clean Rivers - Clean Sea! NGOs actions for environmental protection within Black Sea area

01/02/2013Grant European Union Water and sani-

tation 462 60301/02/2015

National Antiviolence Centre for women and mothers with children, victims of do-mestic violence

25/05/2013Grant Republic of Italy


86 00024/05/2015

Quality Certification System in Agrotour-ism – CerTour Project


16/04/2015

Central Heating Program in Moldova – Identification Study of the Project

06/05/2013Grant EBRD


300 00030/11/2013

Strategic Territorial Agendas for “Small and Middle-Sized Towns” (STATUS)


30/11/2014 Reduction of pollution and soil erosion by extending the capacity of waste water treat-ment management

27/11/2013Grant European Union Multi-sector 2 089 139

26/09/2015

Regional network of business incubators 27/03/2013

Grant European Union Business and other services 128 804

27/03/2015 Development of cross-border tourism by promoting the Mansion of Manuc Bey, Elena Ioan Cuza Mortuary Complex and the Blesciunov Mansion

30/10/2013

Grant European Union Tourism 2 248 59830/08/2015

Border infrastructure (communications infrastructure between Romania and the Republic of Moldova)


civil society 3 000 00004/08/2015

Unity in diversity – Art Exchange and Traditional Crafts for Youth



31 50030/09/2014

Virtual Platform for cross-border exchange of students


01/10/2014

Rehabilitation of Royal Court of Lapusna for tourism sightseeing


31/12/2014

Beyond Borders – Music and Identity Among European Youth



26 38918/11/2014

Cross-border interdisciplinary cooperation for the prevention of natural disasters and mitigation of environmental pollution in Lower Danube

01/11/2013

Grant European Union Multi-sector 220 22831/08/2015


Fanfares beyond borders 01/10/2013

Grant European UnionOther social in-frastructure and services

12 30531/03/2015

Cultural exchange platform - CUL-TUR-EXP



36 65130/06/2015

Solidarity, Youth and Water in Moldova01/07/2013

Grant Swiss Confeder-ation Multi-sector 88 292

30/06/2014 Establishment and promotion of new ap-proaches and instruments to enhance prima-ry sector’s competitiveness and innovation in the South East Europe (APP4INNO)

30/11/2013Grant Hungary Industry 92 610

29/11/2014

Increasing the efficiency and transparency of processes within the National Agency for Employment – electronic data registration system implementation



126 38131/12/2014

Artistic and cultural education in the con-text of sustainable cross-border cooperation



146 89814/03/2015

Intelligent cluster policies for South-East-ern Europe


services 96 84131/12/2014

Support to the Republic of Moldova in the process of creation of the Deep and Com-prehensive Free Trade Zone


services 1 927 00030/11/2015

Pneumococcal vaccine assistance01/07/2013

Grant International NGO Health 1 027 413

01/07/2015 Grant Agreement between the Republic of Moldova and International Development Association on Enhancing capacities of Court of Accounts of the Republic of Mol-dova

14/08/2013

Grant World Bank Governance and civil society 754 034

30/11/2015

Preparing the conditions for the wine from the Black Sea basin to enter on international market: Black Sea WinExports /


23/05/2015

Technical assistance and support to the National Agency for Regulation of Nuclear and Radiological Activities of the Republic of Moldova to implement measures to im-prove radiological security in the Central and Eastern Europe and Russia

03/04/2013

Grant Kingdom of Sweden


400 00031/12/2014

Enhancing Digital Security capacity of Gov-ernmental institutions of the RM


civil society 103 06730/06/2014

DCA Loan Portfolio Guarantee Facility with Prime Capital (second agreement)

30/09/2013Grant USA Business and other

services 145 52929/12/2014

Support to Organic Agriculture in Moldova 30/04/2013 Grant USA Business and other services 117 879

Moldova Partnership for Sustainable Civil Society (MPSCS)


civil society 1 433 53612/12/2018

Procuring of conference table for Protocol Rook of the Ministry of External Affairs and European Integration of the RM


TurkeyGovernance and civil society 8 500

31/12/2013

Energy audit of Gymnasium “Iaroslav Gasek” in. Huluboaia village, Cahul Raion



2 03215/12/2013

Procurement of audio equipment for Gen-eral Culture and Tourism Direction of ATU Gagauzia


Turkey


15 63031/12/2013

Procurement of computers for schools of the Republic of Moldova



Procurement of computers for the Library M.K. ATATÜRK in Comrat mun.




Re-equipment of the NATO Information and Documentation Centre of ULIM Uni-versity of the Republic of Moldova



Support to National Strategy to support children without parental care in Moldova



99 06731/12/2013

Support to public service modernisation reform implementation

01/03/2013Grant World Bank Governance and

civil society 636 83630/12/2013

Re-equipment and maintaining of Office of Bashkan of ATU Gagauzia in Comrat mun.


TurkeyGovernance and civil society 11 000

29/05/2013

Sustainable broad partnership for decen-tralisation reform


civil society 270 00001/01/2015

Reconstruction of Fire fighters and Rescu-ers Unit of Soroca, Republic of Moldova


civil society 497 45330/09/2014

Professional training network for local public administration


civil society 149 99702/02/2015

Enhancing the investment promotion of MIEPO and support to investment promo-tion in industrial parks in the Republic of Moldova

01/10/2013

Grant UN


- Trade and trade-related poli-cy and laws

1 000 00031/10/2016

I do care, I will involve! – Cross-border cooperation for social inclusion of vulnera-ble youth



45 95820/02/2015

Traffic Information systems regarding road safety


storage 602 31624/06/2015

Pure water – for villages benefit 09/12/2013

Grant Romania Water and sani-tation 863 315

09/10/2015

Cross-border waste management tool for rural localities, CBCRurWaste


11/10/2015

Eco-Cities – a common vision in cross-bor-der area


17/10/2015

GHID- Care. Food. Integration. Develop-ment

01/11/2013Grant Austria Education 1 300 000

31/10/2016

Upgrading the heating system in boarding school of Ceadir-Lunga, ATU Gagauzia



Extension of a successful Inclusion Pre-school Education Model in the Republic of Moldova

01/08/2013Grant Czech Republic Education 394 468

01/12/2014

Introduction of innovative waste manage-ment practices in selected cities of Georgia, Moldova and Armenia, GMA-WMP


tation 269 91608/08/2015

Providing social vulnerable patients with hearing devices and tonometer


29/08/2013 Reparation, re-equipment and maintenance of library building M.K. Atatürk in Comrat mun.



Improving medical equipment in Raion Ungheni Hospital

19/02/2013Grant Japan Health 92 831

19/06/2013

Project to renew medical equipment in Cimislia raion


27/05/2013 Equipment of IMSP Raion Comrat Hospi-tal “Isaac Gufinchel” with artificial respira-tory ventilator


Turkey Health 10 00002/09/2013

Green youth movement in cross-border area 16/11/2013

Grant European Union Multi-sector 71 77215/10/2014


Modernization of public transport in Balti mun.

10/07/2013 - Preferen-tial credit

- Grant

- EBRD

- European Union

Transport and storage 4 600 000

10/07/2015

South East Neighbourhood Safe Routes (SENSOR)


storage 110 29305/04/2015

Promotion of civic participation in Cahul Raion

01/01/2013Grant Czech Republic Governance and


Developing the expenditure framework for design documents for IMSP Scientific Research Institute for Maternal and Child Health Care in Chisinau



Border protection against wild animals 18/12/2013

Grant European Union Agriculture 21 45017/10/2015

Professional and ongoing training in elec-tric engineering in Chisinau

01/11/2013Grant Federal Republic

of Germany Education 422 53631/07/2016

e-Fairs and trade networks (e-F+TN)01/05/2013

Grant European Union Business and other services 555 432

01/05/2015

Changing the roof of boiler room in Raion Hospital of Ceadir-Lunga, ATU Gagauzia



Developing the expenditure framework for design documents for Hostel of the Comrat State University



Developing the expenditure framework for design documents for IMSP Raion Hospital of Comrat ‘Isaac Gurfinchel’



Support to Economic Council 30/11/2013

Grant EBRD Business and other services 299 665

01/11/2015

National consolidated systems for safety of reproductive health products

01/01/2013Grant UN

Health and popu-lation reproduction policies and pro-grammes

115 45331/12/2017

Development of control centres, crisis management and solutions in the field of information technologies and communica-tions in Moldova

01/11/2013

Grant Estonia Governance and civil society 90 231

31/10/2015

Establishing a training system to manage the traffic in emergency situation and de-velopment of traffic control system in the Republic of Moldova

01/11/2013

Grant Estonia Governance and civil society 95 258

31/10/2015

ECO-CARPATI - Eco-Business Develop-ment in Border Carpathians as Chance for Better Economic Competitiveness


services 23 50019/09/2015

Cooperation of scientific parks in South-Eastern Europe (SEE) to promote research results and technologies in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

14/11/2013Grant European Union Industry 110 948

31/12/2014

Increasing competitiveness through human synergy in Transnistrian region

01/11/2013Grant European Union Industry 170 000

31/10/2014 Joint Business Support Centre - Instrument for fostering development of entrepreneur-ship in Ro-Ua-Md cross-border area

11/09/2013Grant European Union Industry 1 439 713

10/07/2015

Furnishing of operator block with medical equipment of Paediatric Department of Municipal Clinical Hospital of Balti


26/02/2014

Sustainable development of tourism in Low-er Danube in Ukraine, Republic of Moldova and Romania


25/11/2015

CROSS Border Centre – support for animal husbandry development


16/07/2015


Enhancing the capacity of professional training providers in water and sanitation in the Republic of Moldova (AquaProf II)

01/09/2013Grant Austria Education 645 600

31/08/2016

Improving the Judo equipment for the State University of Physical Training and Sports of the Republic of Moldova Project

12/03/2013Grant Japan


50 94212/03/2014

Launching children library bus in Moldova12/03/2013

Grant Japan Education 94 43512/03/2014

Sanitation of rural schools in Soroca and Drochia raions of the Republic of Moldova

08/05/2013Grant USA Education 189 252

08/03/2014

School of future English teachers 01/06/2013

Grant Liechtenstein Education 80 53601/06/2015

Loan Framework Agreement between the Council of Europe Development Bank and the Republic of Moldova on The Construc-tion of Penitentiary No. 13 Chisinau

10/10/2013 - Preferen-tial credit

- Grant

- CEB Governance and civil society 44 500 000

01/01/2018

Protection and promotion of child’s rights in the Republic of Moldova

01/01/2013Grant Liechtenstein


59 12931/12/2013

European research excellence network for research and development in chronic diseas-es (CHRONEX-RD)

24/12/2013Grant European Union Health 1 586 973

23/08/2015

Financing agreement between the Republic of Moldova and International Development Association on implementing Urgent sup-port in agriculture Project in Moldova

29/05/2013Preferential credit World Bank Agriculture 3 888 666

29/05/2017

Inventory, assessment and remediation of the anthropogenic sources of pollution in the Lower Danube Region in Ukraine, Ro-mania and the Republic of Moldova


17/04/2016

Technical Assistance for the implementa-tion of the legal and regulatory framework in the Aviation Sector according to the Agreement on Aviation Area between the EU and The Republic of Moldova

11/02/2013

Grant European Union Transport and storage 2 395 158

11/02/2016

NATO/PpP on destruction of pesticides and hazardous chemicals in the Republic of Moldova

15/10/2013

Grant

- Belgium

- Bulgaria

- Czech Republic

- Estonia

- Finland

- Ireland

- Republic of Italy

- Japan

- Luxemburg

- Norway

- Romania

- Republic of Turkey

Governance and civil society 1 122 000

15/10/2014

Improving equity and quality in education (2013-2017)

01/01/2013Grant UN Education 996 988

31/12/2017


Remediation of Environmental Burdens caused by pesticides in the Republic of Moldova - II

01/03/2013Grant Czech Republic Multi-sector 800 000

29/11/2015

Innovative Instruments for Environmental Analysis in North Western Black Sea Basin (Black Sea e-Eye)


322 – mineral resources and mining

760 00007/01/2015

Joint Integrated Local Development Pro-gramme (new phase 2013-2015)

01/01/2013Grant

- Denmark

- UNGovernance and civil society 4 099 061

01/01/2016

Biomedical Engineering Education Tem-pus Initiative in Eastern Neighbouring Area (BME-ENA)


30/11/2016

Support to National Climate Change Ad-aptation Planning Process in the Republic of Moldova

01/06/2013Grant Austria Multi-sector 744 000

31/05/2016

Innovative Entrepreneurship for Sustain-able Employment

18/01/2013Grant UN


676 63018/01/2016

Migration Management and Cooperation on Readmission in Eastern Europe (MI-GRECO)



672 64601/02/2015

Child and Social Protection Systems (2013-2017)

01/01/2013Grant UN


609 66531/12/2017

Social Policies (2013-2017)

01/01/2013

Grant

- Kingdom of Sweden

- Swiss Confed-eration

- UN

- Governance and civil society

- Other social infrastructure and services

517 69231/12/2017

Increased waste management capacity for a cleaner environment in Vaslui and Cahul cities


tation 471 60711/10/2015

Assistance to Border Police Mobile Detec-tion Systems of the Republic of Moldova within the Second Line of Defence Pro-gramme

20/12/2013

Grant USA Governance and civil society 250 697

20/12/2014

Reparation of Community Centre building in Cotiujenii Mici village, Singerei raion


Turkey


36 00031/03/2014

Improving Criminal Justice Responses to Trafficking in Persons in South Eastern Europe with a Focus on Moldova

05/04/2013Grant UN Governance and

civil society 310 53531/03/2014

Clima-Est: Sustainable management of pastures and community forests in Moldo-va’s first National Park Orhei

01/04/2013Grant European Union Forestry 500 000

30/12/2016

Moldova Disaster and Climate Risk Re-duction Project ”Phase II

01/10/2013Grant UN Multi-sector 133 834

30/09/2016 Contract on institutional cooperation be-tween Swedish Fiscal Agency and Main State Tax Inspectorate of the RM

18/12/2013Grant Kingdom of

SwedenGovernance and civil society 1 835 187

30/05/2017

Ensuring equity in health system

01/01/2013

Grant

- European Union

- Swiss Confed-eration

- UN

Health 406 48231/12/2017

Involving partners in promoting children’s rights (2013-2017)

01/01/2013Grant

- Kingdom of Sweden

- UN

Governance and civil society 292 271

31/12/2017


Youth Empowerment Project (2013-2017)

01/01/2013

Grant - European Union

- UN

- Health

- Health and popu-lation reproduction policies and pro-grammes

144 80231/12/2017

Disaster Risk Reduction (2013-2017)01/01/2013

Grant UN Humanitarian aid 102 69231/12/2017

Justice for Children (2013-2017)01/01/2013

Grant - Estonia

- UNGovernance and civil society 173 209

31/12/2017

People with Disabilities - Actors in Pre-venting and Combating Discrimination

01/09/2013Grant USA


22 55431/08/2014

Prevention of Stigma and Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities in Schools on Both Banks of the Nistru River

11/11/2013Grant USA


24 85710/11/2014

Convention for Waste Management for in-land Navigation on the Danube (CO-WAN-DA)


31/12/2015

Greening Economies in the Eastern Neigh-bourhood (PaE GREEN)


31/12/2016

Climate Change in Eastern Partnership Region


31/12/2014

Promotion of natural purification systems 01/07/2013

Grant European Union Water and sani-tation 68 798

02/07/2015

Improving integrated management of coastal area in the Black Sea Region


01/01/2015

Capacity building to set adequate DEEE flow management in the Republic of Mol-dova

06/09/2013Grant Slovakia Multi-sector 110 230

30/09/2014

Cross-border inventory of soil degradation - GRING


03/10/2015

Support to capacity building of the Presi-dent Administration of the RM



Enhancing multidisciplinary approach in achieving and maintaining a life without violence


civil society 155 26730/06/2014

Quality Initiative in Eastern Europe and the Southern Caucasus in relation to asylum issues


civil society 203 83531/01/2015

Improving the ecological situation of basins of Prut and Dniester by improving sewage treatment systems in Chernivtsi and Drochia

19/12/2013

Grant European Union Water and sani-tation 596 808

18/10/2015

Support to Confidence Building Measures in Transnistrian region of the Republic of Moldova

01/06/2013Grant Austria Governance and

civil society 450 00030/09/2014

Facilitation citizen participation in respon-sible education reform implementation and enhancing education quality in the Republic of Moldova

16/12/2013Grant World Bank Education 203 748

20/12/2018

Developing a Civil Society Platform for Democracy Development and Voters’ Rights in Eastern Partnership countries


civil society 203 79904/12/2015

Medical Universities Alliance ‘MEDEA’15/07/2013

Grant European Union Education 652 96514/07/2017

Capacity building of civil society in Mol-dova, including Transnistria region in fight-ing against discrimination through advocacy actions


civil society 451 67530/06/2016


Energy-Cross Border Asset

03/12/2013

Grant European Union

- Education

- Health

- Other social infrastructure and services

770 20102/08/2015

Joint Programme of European Union – Council of Europe to create Emerald Net-work of Nature Protection Sites, phase II

18/04/2013Grant Council of Eu-

rope Multi-sector 3 57131/01/2014

Program coordination and assistance01/01/2013

Grant UN Governance and civil society 227 310

01/01/2018 National consolidated capacity to apply and distribute the data to develop deci-sion-making and policy formulation around population dynamics, Sexual Reproductive Health

01/01/2013

Grant UN


23 29031/12/2017

Consolidated capacity of national insti-tutions and organisations of civil society to plan, implement and monitor the sexual and reproductive health education, as well as Prevention of HIV and STD Infection Program

01/01/2013

Grant UN


130 57631/12/2017

Enhanced capacity of primary medical assistance institutions in family planning as part of integrated sexual and reproductive health services with focus on vulnerable people and victims and offenders of ...

01/01/2013

Grant UN


75 80131/12/2017

Let’s cherish our past and construct the future



208 50014/05/2015

Support to Maternal and Child Health Care of Medical University Simulation Centre of Moldova

17/05/2013Grant Swiss Confeder-

ation Health 1 200 00030/04/2015

Enhanced capacity of national institutions to generate and analyse statistic data on population dynamics, youth, gender equality and sexual and reproductive health

01/01/2013Grant UN


417 20301/01/2018

Support the Coordination of Justice Sector Reform Republic of Moldova


civil society 2 231 80029/03/2016

Financing agreement between the Govern-ment of the Republic of Moldova and Eu-ropean Union on Support of Justice Reform Program

14/06/2013


14/06/2018

Revision and development of Land Code in the Republic of Moldova

01/08/2013Grant UN Agriculture 98 000

30/06/2014

Advising the Prime Minister of the Repub-lic of Moldova on economic development

01/01/2013

Grant Federal Republic of Germany

- Governance and civil society

- Business and other services

2 500 00031/12/2015

ESCO Moldova – transforming the market for urban energy efficiency in Moldova by introducing energy service companies

01/05/2013Grant UN


46 58001/05/2014

East-Avert - prevention and flood pro-tection in Siret and Prut river basins by applying modern monitoring system with automatic stations

29/11/2013Grant

European UnionMulti-sector 2 300 000

28/10/2015

Professional Construction Training Centre in the Republic of Moldova

15/10/2013Grant Austria Education 497 650

30/09/2016

Overcoming challenges in access to educa-tion (2013-2017)

01/01/2013Grant UN Education 540 613

31/12/2017


Let’s cherish our past and construct for the future



208 50014/05/2015

IMPEFO- Improvement of cross – border cooperation between Moldova and Romania on Petroleum and Food Products


civil society 3 094 19304/03/2015

Pilot regional development programme – Agreement


26/02/2018

TOTAL 623 920 604


B. List of external assistance signed in 2013EU

26.02.2013 Financing Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Moldova and European Union on Pilot Regional Development Programmes

14.06.2013 Framework Agreement between Government of the Republic of Moldova and The European Delegation to Moldova on ‚Framework Programme in support of the current and new agreements between the European Union and the Republic of Moldova

14.06.2013 Financing Agreement between GRM and EU on Justice Budget Support Programme

EBRD

28.06.2013 Loan Agreement between the Republic of Moldova and the European Bank for Reconstructions and Development on ‚Moldova Road Rehabilitation IV’

19.12.2013 Loan Agreement between S.A. Apa Canal Chisinau and the European Bank for Reconstructions and Development on Moldova Water Pipeline Rehabilitation

EIB

25.06.2013 Loan Agreement between the Republic of Moldova and the European Bank for Reconstructions and Development on ‚Moldova Road Rehabilitation III’

19.12.2013 Loan Agreement between S.A. Apa Canal Chisinau and the European Bank for Reconstructions and Development on Moldova Water Pipeline Rehabilitation

WB

07.02.2013 Financing Agreement between the Republic of Moldova and the IDA on Moldova Education Reform Project

29.05.2013 Financing Agreement between the Republic of Moldova and the International Development Association on Emergency Agriculture Support Project

06.08.2013 Grant Agreement between the Republic of Moldova and the International Development Association on Integration of Children with Disabilities in General School

14.08.2013 Grant Agreement between the Republic of Moldova and the International Development Association on Improvement capacity of Court of Accounts of RM Project

15.11.2013 Grant Agreement between the Republic of Moldova and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development of Competitive Agriculture in Moldova Project

Japan

27.06.2013 Agreement concluded via exchange notes between the Government of the Republic of Moldova and Japan on financing Medical Service Enhancement Project

26.06.2013 Agreement concluded via exchange notes between the Government of the Republic of Moldova and Japan on the Efficient use of solid biomass fuels Project

Republic of Austria

Credit Agreement between Unicredit Bank Austria an RM on financing ”Improvement of Medical Services in RCHM phase II” project


People’s Republic of China

10.07.2013 Agreement on economic and technical cooperation between the Government of the Republic of Moldova and the Government of the People’s Republic of China

14.11.2013 Agreement on economic and technical cooperation between the Government of the Republic of Moldova and the Government of the People’s Republic of China

USA

11.09.2013 Third Amendment to the Assistance Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Moldova for the Rule of Law Institutional Strengthening Program

11.09.2013 Third Amendment to the Assistance Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Moldova and the Government of the United States of America for Economic Growth

11.09.2013 Third Amendment to the Assistance Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Moldova for the Local Government Support Project

26.12. Fourth Amendment to the Assistance Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Moldova for the Rule of Law Institutional Strengthening Program

26.12.2013 Fourth Amendment to the Assistance Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Moldova and the Government of the United States of America for Economic Growth

Slovak Republic

16.10.2013 Agreement on Development Cooperation Between the Government of the Slovak Republic and the Government of the Republic of Moldova

Romania

28.08.2013 Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Moldova and Government of Romania on general framework and cooperation conditions in development

10.12.2013 Al Third Additional Protocol between the Government of the Republic of Moldova and Government of Romania on the implementation of technical and financial assistance based on non-refundable aid in the amount of Euro 100 mil. granted to the Republic of Moldova by Romania

12.07.2013 Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the Republic of Moldova and the Government of Romania on organising and conducting public procurement regarding refining works of River Prut within the Project Interconnection of National Gas Pipeline Transportation system in Romania and the RM towards Iasi (Romania)-Ungheni (RM)”

Federal Republic of Germany

15.10.2013 Minute Notes on Development Cooperation Negotiations between the Government of the Republic of Moldova and the Government of the Republic of Germany

BDCE

10.10.2013 Loan Framework Agreement between the Council of Europe Development Bank and the Republic of Moldova on The Construction of Penitentiary No. 13 Chisinau

World Health Organisation

29.10.2013 Biannual Cooperation Agreement between Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organisation and Ministry of Health of the RM for 2014-2015


C. Information of development partners according to Global Partnership indica-tors on Effective Development Cooperation

Development partner Q1-disbursed at coun-try level

Q2 – Disbursed for government sector

Q3 – planned to be disbursed

Q4 – disbursed for government sector via

other partners

Q5 – Application of national budgetary procedures

Hungary 328 462 4 077 0 0 4 062

The UN 37 891 675 37 891 675 40 243 081 0 946 606

Kingdom of Sweden 5 076 923 430 769 0 4 846 154 0

The USA 64 884 335 56 283 944 69 408 341 0 0

Slovak Republic 260 000 36 923 32 308 0 32 308

Romania 10 292 308 63 077 630 769 561 538 0

Poland 1 684 615 0 0 0 0

Republic of Lithuania 60 769 60 769 67 692 0 0

Republic of Leetonia 6 154 3 846 4 615 0 0

Japan 3 415 385 3 415 385 3 415 385 0 0

Global Facility 12 721 025 7 557 157 7 557 157 0 0

Federal Republic of Germany 6 860 000 6 620 000 6 620 000 0 800 000

People’s Republic of China 5 692 308 5 692 308 5 692 308 0 0

Swiss Confederation 6 153 846 5 692 308 5 692 308 1 692 308 0

Republic of Estonia 740 000 380 769 0 0 0

Republic of Finland 307 692 0 0 0 0

European Union 68 068 508 48 442 055 83 355 921 13 667 577 39 618 750

Czech Republic 2 256 031 263 075 189 821 71 923 0

World Bank 32 287 792 32 287 792 31 557 754 0 32 287 792

Republic of Austria 4 643 190 2 156 867 2 156 867 5 423 935 0

EIB 22 110 808 16 110 808 22 110 808 0 22 110 808

EBRD 14 175 701 0 14 175 701 0 14 175 701

BDCE 0 0 7 136 212 0 7 136 212

UniCredit 0 0 5 652 400 0 4 348 002

Total (euro) 299 917 526 223 393 602 305 699 446 26 263 435 121 460 240

Partener de dezvoltare

Q6 –Appli-cation of national financial reporting

Q7 – Appli-cation of na-tional audit

system

Q8 – Appli-cation of national

procurement system

Publication of information Medium term forecasts Q10 – Egalitatea de

gen

IATI AMP 2 015 2 016 2 017

Hungary 0 0 0 No No 0 0 0 0

The UN 946 606 0 946 606 Yes Yes 33 259 315 21 590 498 14 421 181 5 923 077

Kingdom of Sweden 0 0 0 Yes Yes 0 0 0 738 462

The USA 0 0 0 Yes-p Yes 21 940 251 13 292 308 13 292 308 226 923

Slovak Re-public

32 308 32 308 32 308 No No 0 0 0 0

Romania 0 0 0 No No 0 0 0 0

Poland 1 684 615 1 684 615 1 684 615 No No 1 500 000 1 523 077 1 538 462 0

Republic of Lithuania 0 0 0 No No 0 0 0 0

Republic of Leetonia 0 0 0 No No 0 0 0 0

Japan 0 0 0 No No 0 0 0 0

Global Facility 0 0 0 Yes No 0 0 0 0


Federal Republic of Germany

800 000 800 000 800 000 Yes Yes 7 000 000 5 000 000 0 384 615

People’s Republic of China

0 0 0 No No 0 0 0 0

Swiss Confe-deration 0 0 0 Yes Yes-p 11 384 615 12 153 846 12 153 846 0

Republic of Estonia 0 0 0 No No 915 385 1 046 154 1 123 077 200 000

Republic of Finland 0 0 0 Yes No 0 0 0 307 692

European Union 39 618 750 39 618 750 39 618 750 Yes Yes-p 0 0 0 68 068 508

Czech Repu-blic 0 0 0 Yes Yes-p 3 321 709 3 400 798 3 479 885 0

World Bank 5 922 628 3 622 396 0 No No 17 742 165 12 259 870 6 318 892 0

Republic of Austria 0 408 492 408 492 No Yes 3 384 615 3 153 846 0 283 077

EIB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

EBRD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

BDCE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

UniCredit 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Total (euro)49 004 907 46 166 562 43 490 772 0 0 100 448 055 73 420 396 52 327 651 76 132 354

Source: Information submitted by development partners (Euro million).

D. Disbursed amounts by development partners by sectors, 2013

Development partner


Transport and storage Agriculture


Health Education Industry Water and sanitation

Multi-sec-tor

Business and other services Other

Hungary 8 154 0 0 0 0 20 000 0 300 000 10 000 0 0

UN 2 654 050 0 7 954 982 0 890 158 331 848 0 0 846 932 0 0

Kingdom of Sweden 4 915 385 0 0 69 231 0 0 0 0 0 323 077 0

USA 3 498 322 31 771 405 14 433 386 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 580 829 0

Slovak Repu-blic 148 462 0 0 0 0 85 385 0 0 32 308 0 0

Romania 693 327 0 0 0 0 9 599 714 0 0 0 0 0

Republic of Poland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Republic of Lithuania 60 000 0 0 0 0 769 0 0 0 0 0

Republic of Leetonia 3 846 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Japan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Global Facility 0 0 0 0 12 721 025 0 0 0 0 0 0

Federal Repu-blic of Ger-many

1 770 000 720 000 0 720 000 100 000 200 000 0 1 500 000 720 000 710 000 420 000

People’s Repu-blic of China 0 3 846 154 0 0 615 385 1 230 769 0 0 0 0 0

Swiss Confe-deration 0 0 0 0 2 923 077 0 0 2 230 769 0 0 538 462

Republic of Estonia 171 538 0 0 0 172 308 66 154 0 0 0 90 769 0

Republic of Finland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

European Union 18 748 808 213 577 0 22 174 615 249 451 70 226 14 090 175 437 761 4 035 481 138 529 2 816 043


Czech Repu-blic 263 075 0 356 945 0 0 259 826 0 740 446 53 235 0 582 503

World Bank 6 101 301 0 5 610 318 327 103 4 247 435 4 060 184 0 2 940 438 3 039 785 0 5 969 434

Republic of Austria 299 997 0 16 181 0 0 558 708 0 971 137 372 596 29 231 1 249 582

EIB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

EBRD 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

BDCE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

UniCredit 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Total (euro) 39 336 264 36 551 136 28 371 812 23 290 949 21 918 838 16 483 583 14 090 175 9 120 551 9 110 337 7 872 435 11 576 024

As of 31 December 2013

E. List of Twinning projects

Support to the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova

Budget: 1 mln. euro

Status: Completed

Objective - To strengthen the democracy and rule of law in the RM, to strengthen its role in the process of approximation to EU legislati-

on, norms and standards.

Partners: National Assembly of France, French Senate, National Assembly of Hungary, France Cooperation

Internationale

Beneficiaries: Parliament of the RM

Implementation period: July 2008-July 2010 (27 luni)

Support to Moldova in Prisons System Upgrading and Penal Reform

Budget: 920.092 euro

Status: Completed

Objective - Support the management of peni-tentiary system in its efforts to align its activity

with European standards by enhancing the cooperation between the judicial authorities of

the penitentiary system of the RM.

Partner: German Foundation for International Legal Cooperation ”IRZ”

Beneficiaries: Department of Penitentiary Institutions, Ministry of Justice

Implementation period: October 2009 - March 2011 (21 months)

Support to the Public Procu-rement System in the Repu-blic of Moldova

Budget: 993 683 euro

Status: Completed

Objective - is to enhance the implementing capacities of public procurement in Moldova at all levels, with a focus on Agency for Public Procurement, in order to improve the functi-oning of the current system through increased transparency and information provision, whi-

ch will contribute to the fulfilment of the basic principles of public procurement in Moldova, i.e. the assurance of transparency, non-discri-mination, fair competition and access to legal

resource.

Partner: Ministry of Public Finance of Romania

Beneficiaries: Agency for Public Procurement

Implementation period: 18/11/2010 – 17/08/2012 (21 months)

Support the Implementation of Competition Policy and State Aid to Moldova

Budget: 1 000 000 euro

Status: Completed

Objective -Enhance the capacity of the National Agency for the Protection of Com-petition, in particular: the right of own initi-ative investigations, enforcement orders and effective sanctions (such as fines); strengthen

enforcement of the new competition and State Aid legislation (when adopted) in line with commitments taken by the Republic of Moldova in the framework of the PCA and the EU-Moldova Action Plan, targeting the

NAPC, the judiciary and government officials; improve transparency concerning state aid

granting in the Republic of Moldova; create a competition culture.

Partners: Romanian Competition Council (RCC); Federal Austrian Competition Authority (BWB); Latvian

Competition Council (LCC)

Beneficiaries: Competition Council of the Republic of Moldova

Implementation period: March 2011 - December 2012


Support to the Implementa-tion and the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in the Republic of Moldova

Budget: 999 021 euro

Status: Completed

Objective - to enhance the communication between public institutions responsible for

intellectual property, to strengthen collective administration organisation, to enhance the

awareness about the protection of intellectual property rights and to assist in developing the

national system of geographical indications and designations of origin and guaranteed

traditional names.

Partner: The Danish Patent and Trademark Office (DKPTO)

Beneficiary: AGEPI

Implementation period: 23/11/2010-30/04/2012 (18 months)

Strengthening Internal Pu-blic Financial Management in the Republic of Moldova


Status: Completed

Objective -

- Developing and granting assistance to Inter-nal Public Financial Management Council;

revision of legal and normative framework of IPFM, development of methodological norms

for internal audit;

- developing training materials for Financial Management and Control;

- FMC pilot implementation at central and local level, development of internal audit

strategy and activity planning;

- Development of ongoing training program for internal auditors etc.

Partner: The Swedish National Financial Management Authority

Beneficiary: Ministry of Finance

Implementation period: 07/11/2011-06/11/2013 (24 months)

Support to Moldova in the field of norms and standards in food safety for plant origin products (General Inspecto-rate for Phytosanitary Sur-veillance and Seed Control, MAFI

Budget: 1.146.000 euro

Status: Ongoing

Objective - To enhance the capacity of Gene-ral Inspectorate for Phytosanitary Surveillance and Seed Control (GIPSSC) to define, plan

and organise its strategic and operational objectives based on EU compatible risk-based

approaches and focused on prevention.

Partner: The Food & Environment Research Agency

Implementation period: April 2012 – December 2014 (31 months)

Strengthening the Capacity of the Centre of Accredita-tion in the Field of Products Conformity Assessment of the Republic of Moldova (Ministry of Economy)


Status: Ongoing

Objective - The goal of this project is to pre-pare the Centre of Accreditation in the Field of Products Conformity Assessment of the

Republic of Moldova (hereinafter – CAECP) for signing multilateral agreements with the

European Co-operation for Accreditation and to establish the conditions for the future inter-national recognition of Moldovan accredited test results, calibration certificates, inspection

reports and conformity certificates.

Partner:

The Netherlands Standardization Institute (NEN)

The Swedish Board for Accreditation and Conformity Assessment (Swedac)

Implementation period: May 2012- May 2014 (24 months)

Support to the Consumer Protection Agency (Ministry of Economy)


Status: Ongoing

Objective - To implement the national le-gislation regulating market surveillance in

accordance with European standards and best practices.

Partner: The Administration of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland

Co-operation Overseas Ltd. (NI-CO)

Implementation period: May 2012- May 2014 (24 months)


Capacity Building in Re-gional Development in the Republic of Moldova (MRDC)


Status: Completed

Objective - To strengthen the institutional capacity of the Ministry of Regional Develop-ment and Construction, the National Coordi-nation Council for Regional Development and the National Fund for Regional Development

Partner The French Ministry of Interior, General Secre-tariat (SG)

DATAR, French Delegation for Spatial Planning and Regional Development (Prime Minister’s Office)

Romanian Ministry of Regional Development and Tou-rism (MRDT)

Romanian North East Regional Development Agency (NE-RDA)

Implementation period: May 2012- March 2014 (22 months)

Strengthening the Transplant Agency of the Republic of Moldova.


Status: Ongoing

Objective - Support to legislation approxima-tion in the field of quality and safety of human

origin substances

Partner Agence de la biomedicine (ABM), Paris, France and Spain

Implementation period 01/12/2013 – 01/12/2015

Strengthening the External Public Audit in the RM

Bugdet: 1 600 000 euro

Status: Ongoing

Objective - Support to the Court of Accounts of the RM to enhance its functionality, perfor-

mance and impact.

Partner Finland and Spain

Period 24 months

Strengthening Public – Priva-te Partnership in the RM


Status: Ongoing

Objective - Beneficiary Public Property Agen-cy. To enhance significantly the efficiency, effi-cacy and impact of Public-Private Partnership and concessionality in the RM by setting the legal and institutional framework for activity

and transparency.

Partner Germany

Implementation period 24 months

Strengthening Standard and Metrology Sector in accor-dance with the best


Status: Ongoing

Objective - Institute of Standardization and Metrology. Aligning the standard and metrolo-gy sector in the RM with the best practices of

the EU member states.

Partner Germany and Romania

Period 24 months

F. Information and graphs generated by AMP1. Disbursements of development partners in 2013 (according to AMP)

Devlopment Partners Budget (euro)

UE 124 931 452

USA 104 782 290

World Bank 38 199 607

UN 17 457 119

Kingdom of Sweden 12 206 666

People’s Republic of China 4 739 024

EBRD 4 083 529

Federal Republic of Germany 2 794 377

Japan 2 135 811

Denmark 1 965 426

Swiss Confederation 1 838 399

Principality of Liechtenstein 1 653 890

Global Education Partnership 1 090 513

Republic of Austria 826 320

Republic of Turkey 703 622


OSCE 422 302

International NGOs 355 525

Slovak Republic 310 290

Romania 270 000

Republic of Estonia 42 495

EIB 0

Czech Republic 0

Republic of Poland 0

Hungary 0

Republic of Finland 0

Republic of Lithuania 0

Republic of Leetonia 0

CEB 0

Total 320 808 657

3. Reflection of external assistance projects in the state budget

Reflected/Not Reflected in State Budget Number of Projects Budget (mln. euro)

Reflected in State Budget 32 884,3

Not Reflected in State Budget 438 1132,9

4. Classificaiton of projects launched in 2012-2013 by their budget

Amount according to PRAG EU (Euro)

2012 2013

No. of projects Budget (Euro) No. of projects Budget (Euro)

≥ 6.242.000 7 145 880 386 10 526 345 756

249.001 – 6.242.000 50 61 177 376 81 88 021 902162.001 – 249.000 11 2 219 955 18 3 572 235

≤ 162.000 49 3 566 523 84 5 960 108

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