A New European Union-Backed Initiative Has Been Launched to Strengthen Cooperation between Civil Society and Local Public Authorities for Better Budget Governance in the Republic of Moldova
Automatically translated summary. The full article is available in Romanian.
On 3 December 2019, the Independent Think Tank “Expert-Grup”, in partnership with the Institute for European Policies and Reforms (IPRE), launched the project “Inform, Empower and Act! Civil Society for Better Budget Governance in the Republic of Moldova” at a press conference. It is funded by the European Union and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
The project runs from February 2019 to January 2022 and aims to increase the role of local civil society in making budget preparation and execution more transparent, efficient and effective in 25 localities. Twenty-five local coalitions will be created, five in each of the North, Centre, South, UTA Gagauzia and the Transnistrian region, each with about 30 members, including NGOs, activists and mayoral representatives.
About 750 people are expected to be informed, empowered and involved, and over 400,000 citizens should benefit from more participatory budgeting. A competition to select the first 20 localities has opened. Speakers, including Adrian Lupușor, Tatiana Ivanicichina, Ekaterina Yakovleva and Iulian Groza, stressed budget transparency and citizen participation. Information materials are available at www.bugetulmeu.md. The consortium also includes KAS and CSEE.
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