On December 15, 2016, representatives of public authorities, development partners, employers, trade unions and youth organizations participated in the national conference "Development of skills and promotion of employment: addressing multiple challenges".
The Study on "The process of legislating interests: qui prodest (who takes advantage)?" was launched on December 14. The authors have analysed to what extent private interests could affect the legislative process. The research was conducted within the Project "Strengthening the corruption prevention and analysis functions of the National Anticorruption Center (NAC)", implemented by the UNDP with the financial support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway.
The three winning projects of the hackathon HACK.CORRUPTION are about to transform from bold and innovative ideas into web platforms meant to involve citizens in reporting corruption cases. The platforms were launched on December 15th, 2016, at a press conference.
Other 20 public institutions, including schools, kindergartens, community centers in the north, center and south of Moldova have passed the final selection stage and will be connected to biomass heating systems, and six of them will even install solar collectors. The design and construction works will start in early 2017 and these costs will be covered with the financial support of the EU provided through the Energy and Biomass Project.
Mayors from 23 localities lay the basis of several community development projects by signing grant agreements of USD 20,000 each, offered by the Swiss Government via UNDP.
The peer educators network, Y-PEER Moldova presented in the framework of the public discussion "Sexuality education - nothing special", the results of the piloting of the comprehensive sexuality education course in two schools in Moldova, organized with the support of UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund in Moldova.
The handover ceremony of security upgrades performed through the support of the European Union to the storage facility of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Moldova took place on 21 December 2016 at the Bulboaca storage site.