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
Sep 30, 2021
This Report describes the results of an innovative exercise of the Anticorruption Initiatives Assessment (AIA) of public entities of the Republic of Moldova, based on the experience of the Republic of Korea and which envisaged evaluating how public institutions implemented 10 out of 14 anticorruption policies envisaged under the Action Plan for implementing the National Integrity and Anticorruption Strategy and the Integrity Law. AIA goal is to encourage public entities and their managers to take voluntary and pro-active efforts for creating a climate of institutional integrity, ensuring a constant mechanism for monitoring and guiding public entities by the NAC in the process of implementing efficient and practical measures for preventing corruption, including anticorruption and integrity policy documents.
Sep 21, 2021
Compact on Digital Transformation of Moldova
The Moldova Digital Transformation Compact was prepared in partnership between UNDP and ITU with the purpose to outline the main gaps and opportunities of the digital transformation of Moldova. Together with the Digital Readiness Assessment, the Compact will serve as a valuable input for the future Vision and Digital Strategy of Moldova.
Sep 20, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic increased the complexity of the development challenges faced by the people and vulnerable groups in Moldova. The use big and thick data and a combination of the two helps in unpacking such complexities and finding new policy options and solutions to tackling rising inequalities, new forms of poverty, social exclusion, among others. UNDP in Moldova, together with the Government, made use of thick data to unveil the hidden facets of the impact of the COVID-19 on most vulnerable and new vulnerable groups.
