Social and Economic Impact Assessment of COVID-19 in the Republic of Moldova
The Socio-Economic Impact of COVID-19 on most vulnerable groups and economic sectors conducted during the period end-May – beginning of October 2020 is a comprehensive service for the Government and partners shedding light on the consequences and impact of the crisis and proposing tactical and medium-term policy and programmatic options for recovery and resilience. It provides ‘food for thought’ and has already ignited several multi-stakeholder policy dialogues and debates, underlying the potential and ambition for recovery, but also the enthusiasm for building new partnerships for development and coagulating efforts to overcome the multiple COVID-19 induced challenges.
Recent publications
Jul 9, 2021
How social media fuels echo chambering phenomenon in Moldova and how to address it?
“How social media fuels echo chambering phenomenon in Moldova and how to address it?” is a policy paper that explains the new phenomenon in the context of elections, not only in Moldova, and also in other developed or developing countries.
May 26, 2021
This study seeks to examine the impact of corruption on the enjoyment of universal human rights in Moldova. It does so by firstly developing a framework to screen for relevant cases, identifying a common causal nexus between individual acts and systematic corruption, and then assessing the resulting impact on human rights. Case research for this study has been carried out using publicly available data from relevant institutions, for the period 2017-2020.
Apr 7, 2021
Judgement-drafting and Training on Legal Writing in the Republic of Moldova
This report was drafted in the frame of a project financed by the U.S. Embassy and implemented by UNDP Moldova. The project aims to increase the overall quality of judgements and legal drafting in the Republic of Moldova; the report provides an assessment of current practices in the area of the judgement drafting and describes (perceived) shortcomings. It also depicts the way legal writing is taught at the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the institution mandated to train future judges and prosecutors, and furnishes recommendations with a view to improving the training offered.
