Four development projects to be implemented in southern, central Moldova with support of United Kingdom's government

Chisinau, 30 January /MOLDPRES/ - A centre of support in business will be set up in the eastern Anenii Noi district and three projects on development of tourism and backing entrepreneurship will be implemented in the Autonomous Territorial Unit (UTA) Gagauz-Yeri this year. They will be possible as a result of a project launched by the Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment Ministry (MADRM) in 2018, financed by the government of the United Kingdom.      

”Last year, we launched a regional development project, in order to provide support and assistance to business peoples from the Centru, South regions and UTA Gagauz-Yeri. Our goal consisted in enhancing the attractiveness of the regions for investors. At the same time, we identified ways of planning and development of the infrastructure with maximum impact on the regional economy, as well as opportunities of employment,” a state secretary at MADRM, Dorin Andros, has said.   

Twenty concepts of development of projects have been worked out with the assistance of project’s experts and financing sources have been already got for four of them. It is about programmes on developing rural settlements through strengthening the tourist attractiveness, promotion of young people’s entrepreneurship and setting up of a centre of support for business in Moldova’s central region. Their overall cost is estimated at about 380,000 euros. All other projects were submitted within diverse appeals of proposals.   

„We noticed that, according to the support provided, local authorities improved their capacities to write projects, to attract financing for them, to negotiate with development partners. We will continue, as we have potential and given that the country’s settlements deserve this,” Dorin Andros said at a meeting on the project, held at the ministry.  

The project, Strengthening Capacities of Implementation of Regional Sectoral Programme for Development of Business Support Infrastructure, was financed by the government of the United Kingdom with sources of the Good Governance Fund of the UK’s Department for International Development and implemented by  Oxford Policy Management and Pricewaterhousecoupers. The project has an overall budget of about 300,000 pounds.