Center region to cooperate with USAID in community development

Chisinau, 12 June /MOLDPRES/- The Regional Development Agency (ADR) Centru will cooperate with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) My Community program. Representatives of the two institutions signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 11 June.

By signing this document, the parties have proposed to strengthen cooperation in regional development and boost inter-community cooperation initiatives. Thus, the Centru region will be able to benefit from quality support to solve the community problems.

ADR representatives assured of supporting My Community program initiatives at the regional level as they are in full compliance with the priorities of the regional development policy implemented by the Agency, as well as with the priorities of the selected localities from Centre region.

For his part, program director Christopher Kaczmarski expressed gratitude for the program's support in the Centre region, and noted that seven communities in the Center Development Region were selected in August 2018 and are partners of the program.

Currently, selected communities benefit from assistance from USAID through My Community Program to optimize work and enhance capabilities. Each community will implement a 60,000-dollar local infrastructure upgrade project.

At the same time, the program is in the process of selecting another 30 locations that will benefit from support. Program representatives asked the Agency to involve in order to identify localities in the Centre Region that will receive support in local development.

Launched in May 2018, My Community Program, with a five-year implementation period, aims to support local public authorities to ensure more effective, transparent and responsible governance to our country's citizens.