Donor: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH;
Project title: Integration of the “Moldova 2030” National Development Strategy into national policies and legislation and preparation of the National Development Plan;
Implementation period: October – December 2020;
About the project: The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH implements on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) the project “Support to the Moldovan Government in the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda”. The objective is to improve the capacities and processes for implementing the 2030 Agenda. In order to achieve the objective, the GIZ Project is implemented through a series of cross-cutting outputs, one of them aiming to improve the capacities and processes for integrating the National Development Strategy “Moldova 2030” in selected sectors at the national and regional level.
For this purpose, GIZ contracted Expert-Grup to complete the assignment “Integration of the “Moldova 2030” National Development Strategy into national policies and legislation and preparation of the National Development Plan”.
Project objectives and main activities
Objective 1: Elaboration of a mechanism and criteria for the integration of the National Development Strategy “Moldova 2030” into national policies and legislation by including the findings and recommendations of the 2020 Voluntary National Review.
Activities:
• Identifying the suitable recommendations from the Voluntary National Review presented by the Republic of Moldova to the High-Level Political Forum;
• Elaborating the mechanism for incorporation of the priorities identified in the National Development Strategy “Moldova 2030” in the sectorial policy documents and in the planning documents of authorities;
• Determining how the LNOB principle shall be incorporated in the proposed mechanism;
• Ensuring the coherence between the National Development Strategy “Moldova 2030” vision, objectives and priorities with the sectorial policy documents;
• Ensuring synergy among sectorial strategies, by avoiding overlapping and conflicting priorities;
• Ensuring that policy documents and legislation is anchored into the budget planning framework.
Objective 2: Elaboration of the first medium-term National Development Plan
Activities:
• Determining the structure and format of the National Development Plan;
• By applying the mechanism and criteria for the integration of the National Development Strategy “Moldova 2030” in policy documents and legislation, drafting in a participatory manner the first National Development Plan.
Project results:
1. Handbook for central public authorities on the integration of the National Development Strategy “Moldova 2030” into national policies and legislation, by considering the findings and recommendations from the 2020 Voluntary National Review.
2. Mid-term National Development Plan developed in accordance with the Government Decision no. 386 from 17.06.2020 on planning, elaboration, approval, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of public policy documents.