Ten mayoralties receive grants worth 15,000 dollars each to develop databases for managing demographic challenges

Chisinau, 20 December /MOLDPRES/ - Ten mayoralties of Moldova today received grants worth 15,000 dollars each for the development of databases on management of demographic challenges. The support was provided through a project carried out by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Moldova, in partnership with the State Chancellery and financed by the Swiss Cooperation Office in Moldova.    

The project’s goal is to consolidate the local authorities’ capacity to implement efficient public policies and transparent budgets, through the use of data about the population and demographic forecasts. Within the initiative, the mayoralties will benefit from financial and technical assistance, in order to approach the present demographic challenges, such as the ageing of the population and young people’s emigration.   

Attending the event on the programme’s launch,  Deputy Secretary General of the Government Andrei Strah said that, in the European integration process, ‘’we must take care also of the quality of data, as well as of the way we take decisions both locally and centrally.’’ ‘’This programme is a strategic investment in our country’s future. The projects implemented will lead to the improvement of the people’s living,’’ Andrei Strah noted.     

UNFPA Representative in Moldova Karina Nersesyan said that the programme would help the local authorities capacitate their efforts of developing their settlements, through innovating solutions based on reliable demographic data. The official stressed that this opportunity came in a crucial moment, when the way of Moldova’s integration into the European Union opens new perspectives of modernization and progress.     

Those ten settlements beneficiaries of the programme are: mayoralty of the  Nisporeni town, mayoralty of the Rusestii Noi commune, Straseni city hall, mayoralty of the Budesti village, mayoralty of the Ghidighici village, Edinet city hall, Balti city hall, mayoralty of Floresti town, Cimislia city hall and the mayoralty of the Copceac village. These mayoralties were selected following a public contest, in which 65 local public authorities participated.