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What
we do

Our mission is to advance open society and safeguard democracy by supporting innovative ideas and encouraging visionaries that drive positive changes, to make Moldova a better place to live in.

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Main
Themes

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Democracy and Rule of Law

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Socio-Economic Resilience

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Support for EU Integration

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Justice reform

Justice reform is crucial for the future of democracy and the rule of law in the Republic of Moldova. For this reason, Soros Foundation Moldova supports the bold reform of justice and strengthening critical institutions to restore confidence in the rule of law. We have invested in a series of initiatives by non-governmental organizations specialized in the justice field to monitor and support reform policies’ implementation process and strengthen human rights guarantees in the criminal process.

Reform of the Police and the Internal Affairs system

Soros Moldova Foundation continued the initiatives to reform the Police and support the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Towards the beginning of 2022, the Foundation is considered the leading promoter of Internal Affairs reform among non-governmental sector organizations. Furthermore, we pursue the development of qualitative police services that comply with international human rights standards but also with the obligations assumed in implementing the RM-EU association agreement and, as a result, obtaining the status of a candidate country.
The Foundation undertook advocacy actions to fill information gaps and coordinate donor efforts to support the reform of the internal affairs system.

Anticorruption

The Foundation supported the “Anticorruption and Good Governance” course, which aimed to professionalize civil servants; professionals from the financial sector; members of the boards of directors of state-owned enterprises, journalists, and employees in the associative sector. At the same time, the Foundation provided technical assistance and support to the Agency for the Recovery of Criminal Assets for assessing needs, increasing institutional capacities, defining work processes, improving public communication, and developing the legislative framework.

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Developing Better Social Services

As part of a multi-year partnership with the Delegation of the European Union, Keystone Moldova, and Institutum Virtutes Civilis, we support the creation and development of 40 social services in 20 districts and municipalities of the country: social laundries, day care centers for children, mobile teams for care and assistance to people with disabilities, social canteen services, sheltered housing services, and community house.
Within this initiative, we pay particular attention to the development of strong partnership relations between the civil society organizations that develop social services and the public authorities, which will take them over and ensure their funding after the completion of the project.

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Supporting the authorities for a just economy

Soros Foundation Moldova supported promoting new policies for the transition to legal work. The Expert-Group team developed a series of tools to stimulate the transition from informal to formal economic activity, which served as a basis for elaborating more detailed public policies by the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection.
We supported Expert-Group in improving the administration of public property through a series of initiatives in partnership with the Public Property Agency.
We supported the Institute for Strategic Initiatives (IPIS) and Expert-Group in producing three editions of the External Assistance Monitor, presented in press clubs and donor meetings. The Foreign Aid Monitor analyzes the socioeconomic impact of current aid projects, the efficiency of the management of external state debt, and international financial assistance.

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Support for EU Integration

Soros Moldova Foundation has been supporting the European integration process of the Republic of Moldova for almost 15 years. In 2022, we supported the work of 15 experts who participated in completing the European Union accession questionnaire, which led to our country obtaining candidate status. In addition, the Foundation facilitates a broad discussion among experts and in the press regarding the integration process in the context of the European Political Community summit, which Moldova will host, and the accession negotiations.