Protecting people

The support will be offered to shelters/NGOs and social assistants in all districts and Transnistria.

Procurement of
a) hygiene and personal protection sets for members of the MDTs in Cahul and Ungheni;
b) hygiene and food boxes for vulnerable families with children;
c) educational materials and books for children of different age groups

Procurement of
a) hygiene and personal protection sets for members of the MDTs in Cahul and Ungheni;
b) hygiene and food boxes for vulnerable families with children;
c) educational materials and books for children of different age groups

• Real time monitoring dashboard on COVID-19 cases;
• Assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on young people and older persons;
• Procurement of hygienic kits for shelters, food and hygienic kits for most vulnerable older people;
• Risk communication;
• Support to the education sector: psychological support programme for young people and support to VET institutions and students to ensure continuity of the education programme.

National online training for pre-school teachers on positive parenting during covid-19 pendemic, transition and recovery period.

Implementing UN entity: UNWOMEN

Government Counterpart: MHLSP

Timeframe for impact: Short (1-3 months)

Project outputs:

Women from vulnerable groups, including Romani women, women with disabilities, sex workers, single mothers, women with low or no income, etc., have access to food, personal care and hygiene products, and protection supplies.

Implementing UN entity: UNFPA, UNWOMEN, UNICEF

Government Counterpart: MHLSP

Timeframe for impact: Long (6 months or more)

Project outputs:

• Victims of domestic violence in shelters, have access to personal care and hygiene products, and protection supplies;
• NGOs and shelters are equipped with suitable spaces and all necessary for personal care and hygiene products, and protection supplies for continuous support services for beneficiaries.
• NGOs, shelters and other service providers can provide support services using all form of communication (zoom, skype, WhatsApp, Viber etc.)
• Provides support to local government structures and service providers to ensure safe spaces and life skills to poor and vulnerable women. Re-design and diversified services, including mobile services piloted.
• Ensure access of children victims of violence to psycho-social services

Implementing UN entity: UNFPA (lead), OHCHR

Government Counterpart: MHLSP, National Agency for Social Work, Ombudsperson's Office, 112 Emergency Service, Chisinau

Timeframe for impact: Short (1-3 months) to long (6 months or more)

Project outputs:

• Build intergenerational dialogue between older persons and young people through development of digital skills
• Impact of COVID-19 on older persons and persons with disabilities assessed to ensure that authorities are better informed and better able to shape their response;
• Five multidisciplinary teams piloted at the local level to ensure a comprehensive local response to the needs of older persons from rural areas in accessing healthcare and social protection services;
• 10,000 most vulnerable older persons and persons with disabilities, including stateless persons, asylum-seekers and refugees, provided with life-saving food, hygienic products and assistive technologies;
• Phone support programme for lonely and isolated older persons designed and implemented;
• Availability of transportation services to the most vulnerable in remote areas increased to ensure their access to primary health care;
• The staff of public social assistance services and NGOs trained on the application and continuity of a human rights-based approach to social services during the COVID-19 pandemic;
• Persons with disabilities, older persons and persons with limited reading skills, have access to information on COVID-19 and on their human rights.
• Support to local public administration and CSOs in improving institutional framework and quality of services for children in street situation.

Implementing UN entity: FAO

Government Counterpart: MARDE

Timeframe for impact: Long (6 months or more)

Project outputs:

• Technical assistance and advice to farmers contributing to the national food supply chains delivered;
• Matching grants for maintaining quality standards in agriculture production provided
• Support farmers in mitigating last year drought effects through technical support in the new planting season

Implementing UN entity: UNICEF, UNDP

Government Counterpart: MECR, Regional Gagauz authorities

Timeframe for impact: Long (6 months or more)

Project outputs:

Ensured access to essential sanitation services in rural schools for pupils and personnel. The initiative will focus on two major components:

• Nation-wide: training on healthy and safe hygiene practices delivered and hygiene supplies delivered.
• Regionally: physical rehabilitation of the toilets in schools and kindergartens in the Gagauzia region (10,000 pupils). Sanitation facilities (flush toilets with wastewater treatment) to ensure adequate hygiene conditions is envisaged.

Implementing UN entity: UNICEF

Government Counterpart: MECR

Timeframe for impact: Short (1-3 months)

Project outputs:

16,000 students and 2,600 teachers are reached with support for distance learning, including equipment, connections, training, information and materials.

Implementing UN entity: UNDP (lead), UNICEF

Government Counterpart: MECR, public schools, private sector

Timeframe for impact: Medium to long (6 months or more)

Project outputs:

• Support is provided to the Ministry of Education and public schools to digitalize the public curriculum and offer a single/standardized training platform for the exchange of content, methods and connection between children and teaching staff. This integrates to the extent possible the platforms and tools currently used (based on the understanding among teaching staff of what tools work so far)
• The private sector is connected as partners and solution providers to maintain all digital solutions
• The curriculum for primary and secondary schools is fully digitalized (in Romanian, Russian, etc.) with standardized digitized content, as well as all other tools and instruments to support online learning
• Teachers and pupils receive extended capacity building support in the use of digital tools– The presence of the basic infrastructure and connectivity is ensured where necessary.

Implementing UN entity: UNFPA (lead), UNICEF, UN Women

Government Counterpart: MECR,Technical University

Timeframe for impact: Short (1-3 months) to long (6 months or more)

Project outputs:

• Young people and teachers receive psychological assistance from capacitated providers, with a focus on the COVID-19 recovery period
• Schools are enabled to sustainably deliver life skills-based education programmes, including in crisis situations, based on innovative materials and increased capacities of teachers
• Young people have access to life skills-based education through peer-to-peer education
• Teachers, parents and community members promote and support the right of young people to life skills-based education programmes and healthy lifestyle
• Stereotypes are combatted among teachers, parents and society at large and girls are encouraged to pursue STEM and ICT
• Curricula of Universities providing ICT education is revised to increase the employability skills of young people

Implementing UN entity: UNFPA

Government Counterpart: MECR, VET institutions

Timeframe for impact: Short (1-3 months) to long (6 months or more)

Project outputs:

• 91 VET institutions and student’s dormitories are equipped with sanitation and hygiene supplies for a safe environment
• IT equipment is provided for VET institutions to ensure the access of 45,000 VET students (70% from rural areas) to digitalized learning
• Behaviour change training is conducted for VET students and teachers on COVID-19 prevention

Implementing UN entity: ILO (lead), ITU, UNESCO, UN WOMEN

Government Counterpart: MECR, VET institutions, centres of excellence

Timeframe for impact: Long (6 months or more)

Project outputs:

• TVET authorities and institutions have enhanced capacity to develop standards, guide and facilitate a shared approach to the implementation of digital TVET at national level
• TVET schools, especially teachers and instructors, have enhanced capacities for developing and implementing quality e-learning and blended learning, including knowledge on digital safety
• Pilot experiences in e-learning for TVET re applied in 3 different occupations and 3 different TVET schools lessons learnt are recorded and analysed
• Continuity of TVET and accessibility to E-learning in TVET is ensured for all disadvantaged children and youth
• Access to ICT resources and internet connectivity is enabled, and awareness on harassment-free virtual communication spaces for students and teachers is raised

Implementing UN entity: UNODC

Government Counterpart: MoJ, MHLSP, NPA, NPO

Timeframe for impact: Short (1-3 months)

Project outputs:

• 1,000 guards and escorts have access to PPE, including gloves, masks and sanitizers, for 3 months
• 2,000 electronic monitoring bracelets are procured and delivered to serve the needs of prisoners (from both banks) who are escorted to public hospitals.

Implementing UN entity: UNWOMEN (lead), UNFPA, ILO

Government Counterpart: MHLSP, MoI, MoJ

Timeframe for impact: Medium (3 - 6 months) to long (6 months or more)

Project outputs:

• Multi-sectoral mechanism is strengthened, quality of essential services is improved and capacity of service providers is increased to respond to gender-based violence, including through the adaptation of services to the rights and needs of women with disabilities
• Women are linked to income generation and employment opportunities, while building their skills and linking them to decision-making structures
• The capacities of shelter services are strengthened and adapted to the needs of women with disabilities
• Stigma, discrimination and harmful social norms that support practices of VAW are addressed at the community level
• Vulnerable women are supported to access basic social services equitably and safely, while bringing communities together and building stronger dialogue chains between citizens and local officials.

Implementing UN entity: UNICEF, IOM, UNDP, UNFPA, WHO, OHCHR

Government Counterpart: MHLSP, MoI, NBS, GIBP, National Employment Agency

Timeframe for impact: Long (6 months or more)

Project outputs:

• The national evidence base is enhanced for operational and policy response to social protection challenges triggered by the COVID-19 crisis, taking into account an intersectoral approach and the multiple vulnerabilities of persons impacted by the COVID-19, including returnees and the households affected by the decrease of remittance-sourced incomes, implementing innovative, sustainable and nationally owned mechanisms
• COVID-19 prevention and protection of highly mobile vulnerable groups are fostered through enhanced coordination frameworks, information, education, risk communication, behavioural change activities, the combatting of discrimination and the conducting of regular behavioural insights surveys
• Infection prevention and control are enhanced in all education facilities through development and provision of staff training packages on COVID-19, the conducting of a COVID-19 sero-epidemiological investigation among children and the implementation of specific prevention activities (including immunization)
• Protection of vulnerable groups affected by COVID-19 mobility challenges is enhanced by supporting the development and implementation of targeted recovery strategies, policies, plans and innovative solutions, improved emergency management planning and response and the engaging highly skilled diaspora.

Implementing UN entity: UNFPA (lead), OHCHR, ILO

Government Counterpart: MHLSP,Equality Council

Timeframe for impact: Medium (3-6 months) to long (6 months or more)

Project outputs:

• Promote engagement of older women and men on the labour market;
• Develop active and healthy ageing progammes;
• Develop and pilot workplace-based training programme for adult workers;
• Enhance LLL policy frameworks
• Media campaign to increase awareness and inform older adults about protective measures and coping mechanisms in the context of COVID-19 implemented; 

Implementing UN entity: UNDP, UN WOMEN

Government Counterpart: MoJ, NPO

Timeframe for impact: Medium to long (6 months or more)

Project outputs:

• The probation service has enhanced institutional and digital capacities to ensure the electronic monitoring of aggressors in cases of domestic violence at the national scale
• Standard operating procedures and a probation programme for cases of domestic violence are developed/updated and put into practice
• Interinstitutional coordination mechanisms are established among justice chain actors to ensure the prompt and effective use of electronic monitoring
• The probation service has improved technical capacities for electronic case management and digital service delivery

Implementing UN entity: UNICEF

Government Counterpart: MoJ, MHLSP

Timeframe for impact: Long (6 months or more)

Project outputs:

Barnahus type service premises and employees are supported to improve infrastructure and build capacities