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Project Information

OPM is supporting the Ministry of Social Protection, Family and Child (MSPFC) in Moldova to improve the delivery of effective and sustainable social assistance services, in order to reduce poverty and protect vulnerable groups. The project has three components: (i) reform of the cash benefits system, (ii) reform of social care services and (iii) support to donor coordination.

Under the first component the team is supporting the development of a means-tested benefits system, including legislative and administrative reform. Under the second component, OPM has supported the elaboration of an integrated strategy for the provision of social services at a community level in order to reduce reliance on residential care and improve the efficiency of service provision. Under the third component, the project is supporting the development of new mechanisms for donor coordination and dialogue, which are intended to move donor interventions towards a sector wide approach (SWAp) for social protection during the lifetime of the project.

Cross-cutting themes of the project include support to central administrative processes e.g. the National Development Strategy, sector MTEFs, and decentralisation of service delivery; the strengthening of monitoring and evaluation; and the strengthening of stakeholder participation in all stages of the policy process including a vulnerability assessment with beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of social assistance services.