Report on intermediary assessment of Moldova 2020 National Development Strategy unveiled at government

Chisinau, 6 November /MOLDPRES/ - A report on the assessment of the implementation of the Moldova 2020 National Development Strategy (SND Moldova 2020) on the period 2012-2015 was presented at the government today. Attending the event were Government Deputy Secretary General Valentin Guznac and United Nations Resident Coordinator, UN Development Programme Resident Representative in Moldova Dafina Gercheva, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.     

The intermediary evaluation of the strategy was made in order to identify the present achievements and deficiencies, as well as to analyze the likelihood of attaining the final goals. Thus, progress was ascertained in the pensions system sector, in which most indexes have been fulfilled, as well as in terms of fighting poverty, the rate of which dropped from 21.9 per cent to 9.6 per cent, with the final objective set for the 2020 year already achieved.   

Also, experts recommend the working out of a new 2030 national development strategy, based on ensuring the human rights and the gender equality, strengthening the human potential, with emphasis put on enhancing the level of residents’ education and improving the health indexes.  

At the meeting, Government Deputy Secretary General Valentin Guznac thanked the United Nations for the support provided in the assessment of SND Moldova-2020. He stressed that the results achieved had a major importance in establishing the cabinet’s activity priorities for the next period. “The global agenda can be a successful one in Moldova, only if, at this incipient moment, the country will make a right prioritizing of the targets, due to be attained, through correlation with the priority reforms’ agenda and expectations of the society. Thus, we are set to elaborate, till early 2018, a nee 2030 National Development Strategy, with the involvement of concerned actors, including the development partners, as well as the organization of an enlarged consultation process,” Valentin Guznac said.    

For her part, UN Development Programme Resident Representative in Moldova Dafina Gercheva said that the assessment of SND Moldova 2020 highlighted the sectors in which additional efforts are needed to speed up the implementation of the not yet carried out reforms and turn Moldova into a modern and flourishing state.   

Moldova, along with other UN member states, joined the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with a string of 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which entered into force on 1 January 2016.  

The report on the assessment of the implementation of the Moldova 2020 National Development Strategy, which covers the period 2012-2015, was carried out by the Expert-Grup Analytical Centre, with the support of the country team of the United Nations, including UNDP, United Nations Children’s Fund, International Labour Organization, UN Women, UN Population Fund and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.