Moldova 2009: State of the Country Report
Author: Valeriu Prohnitchi Alex Oprunenco
Publisher: Expert-Grup, Chisinau, Moldova Columna St. 133, office 1
2012 Chisinau
Moldova
Tel: +373 22 21 15 99, 22 93 00 14
Fax: +373 22 21 15 99
http://www.expert-grup.org
(attached in English, Romanian, and Russian)
The Moldova 2009: State of the Country Report is the second state of the country report published by the Expert-Grup think-tank. The current political and economic situation in Moldova is of a critical nature, setting perspectives for long-term development trends in society. The process of strengthening civil society involvement in policy development reached a reasonable level of maturity, with a strong potential to produce a number of adequate analyses and diagnoses of various processes in the country.
Despite the need to further improve the quality of the contribution provided by NGOs, and to make their inputs more consistent, and recommendations more realistic, there are already plenty of examples of civil society participation in public life, including changes in major problematic areas in society. These concerns first of all are the areas of human rights, justice, and economic development as well as corruption, and freedom of media.
In 2009, many civil society organisations have been very active and often pro-active in all these spheres. In early 2010, a National Participation Council composed of 30 national NGOs was set up with the purpose to facilitate the government’s dialogue with civil society on various policy issues. However, as civil society organisations usually look at such issues via lenses of their own missions, there is a tendency towards a rather narrow expertise and lack of a holistic vision.
This project approached the current critical situation in the Moldovan society and its most likely implications through this much needed holistic perspective. It aims at “sincere” and unbiased assessment of the country’s development framework, shaping the country’s policy agenda, and promoting policy solutions to the problems arising from the internal and external challenges, e.g. the global economic, environmental and energy crisis, deficient governance, extremely weak democracy and drawbacks in economic development.
Apart from being a logical follow-up of the 2007 State of the Country Report, this report will also draw conclusions from deficiencies noted already in the previous issue, and will show their implications for the current crisis. Last, but not least, this project aims at analysing what influences Moldova’s development as a state and advancing innovative policy solutions to Moldova’s core problems affecting its development as a state.
This report is published as part of the project “Moldova 2009: State of the Country Report – How to Continue Developing in a Turbulent Global and Domestic Environment?” implemented by the Expert-Grup independent think tank with the financial support of the Black Sea Trust (Bucharest, Romania) and the Balkan Trust for Democracy (Belgrade, Serbia).
raportul-de-stare-a-tarii-2009-eng.pdf (1.33 MB)
raportuldestareatarii2009rus.pdf (1.82 MB)
moldovastateofcountryromanian.pdf (1.30 MB)
