Moldovan foreign minister meets deputy executive director of UNFPA

Chisinau, 29 January /MOLDPRES/- Moldova’s cooperation with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), based on the priorities set in the UNFPA Country Program for 2018-2022, the country's activity within the UN elective bodies in social development, successes and challenges of the Moldovan government in the nationalization of Sustainable Development Goals 2030 were the main topics of discussion between Foreign and European Integration Minister Tudor Ulianovschi and Deputy Executive Director of UNFPA Dereje Wordofa, the MAEIE’s press service has reported.

The officials reviewed the main projects carried out by UNFPA in Moldova, with priority in the field of demographic policies, youth, gender equality and sustainable social development. In this context, Ulianovschi highly appreciated the UNFPA’s work in Moldova and welcomed the recent approval by the UN Office for South Cooperation of the project - Improving the availability of administrative data sources to measure progress on implementation of the agenda of the International Population and Development Conference in the context of Sustainable Development Goals 2030. "I am confident that this joint project will help create an effective interoperability platform for the administrative data exchange between central and local public authorities in order to implement the 2030 Agenda in our country," he said.

Another issue was related to creating an online educational platform in Moldova that would allow to connect school institutions across the country to a common network, giving them access to information resources and online study programs. Dereje Wordofa praised the Moldovan government’s efforts in this regard and expressed the willingness of UNFPA to consider the possibility to identify donors for carrying out this project.