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EU4Moldova: Local Communities

Апісанне

The ”EU4Moldova: Local Communities” programme is implemented as a Team Europe Initiative, with financial support from the European Union, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the Austrian Development Agency and Polish aid. The overall objective is to improve the quality of life and to address the economic and social consequences of COVID-19 in selected local communities of the Republic of Moldova, thus contributing to their long-term resilience.

Канкрэтная мэта

- To improve the quality of local public services delivery within the selected local communities.
- To enhance the access of men and women to social, economic and technical infrastructure and associated services.
- To enhance business and job opportunities for men and women.
- To enhance community-led local development.
- To ensure a supportive environment for the creation of the implementation framework of the National LEADER Program (NLP) under the National Fund for Agriculture and Rural Development (NFARD).
- To consolidate Local Action Groups’ (LAGs) operational and implementation capacities.
- To ensure further development of the National LEADER Network (NLN) as a guarantor of the LEADER development process.

Чаканыя вынікі

• minimum 200 rural communities involved in local development processes
• minimum 250 local development interventions  implemented
• 100 new full-time jobs outside of agriculture
• 80 newly created and expanded businesses
• at least 25 supported SMEs led by women
• 9 improved and expanded local basic public infrastructure measures in the areas of water, sanitation / wastewater and solid waste
• 5 improved or new service delivery models established in selected priority sectors of local public service provision
• new measures for an improved business environment, including skill development at 4 supported VET institutions.