Country Commitments

Moldova

20 September 2011
Commitments Delivered
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The Republic of Moldova faces challenges in improving governance performance, increasing transparency and access to information, fighting corruption and ensuring high quality public service delivery to citizens and business. The Government of Moldova will utilize modern technologies as the key instrument in addressing these issues. In the context of the Open Government Partnership and the already launched efforts of Government Technological Modernization, Moldova is determined to improve governance and communication between government and citizens. 

The Government of Moldova is guided by the values and commitments of the Open Government Declaration: increase availability of information about government activities; support civic participation; implement the highest standards of professional integrity throughout our administrations; increase access to new technologies for openness and accountability. As a member of the Open Government Partnership, the Government of Moldova will align to the global efforts and, support and expand its internal actions to promote transparency and fight corruption, increase public access to information and citizen participation, improve public service delivery by harnessing the power of technology and innovation.

Through the Open Government Partnership, the Government of Moldova commits to build the foundation of a transparent, reliable, efficient government that will communicate and collaborate closely with its citizens, provide high quality public services. In this context Moldova will address three of the five grand challenges: Increasing Public Integrity, More Effectively Managing Public Resources and Improving Public Services.

The present Action Plan has been publicly consulted during January-March 2012. Extensive collective consultations with NGOs, private sector, and international development partners were held simultaneously with individual consultations and online public consultations. Moldova’s Action Plan also benefited from the knowledge exchange received from the OGP Networking Mechanism during video conferences with other governments and independent international experts. The Action Plan was reviewed by all central public administration authorities and approved by the Government. 

Central public administration authorities and State Chancellery will implement this Action Plan, in collaboration with e-Transformation coordinators and persons responsible for Open Govern Data assigned by each central public authority. The State Chancellery will also be responsible for monitoring the implementation of government commitments. Following the consultations with civil society, the National Participation Council identified the need for and subsequently created an Open Government thematic working group, which will be responsible for monitoring the progress of the Action Plan implementation.

The Republic of Moldova has benefited from the experiences of other governments in the Open Government Efforts. In this context, Moldova expresses its willingness to share its knowledge and experience on the elaboration, consultations and implementation of its Open Government Action Plan through the OGP Networking Mechanism.

In 2010, the Government of the Republic of Moldova launched the Governance e-Transformation process to increase transparency, improve government efficiency and public service delivery and fight corruption by harnessing the power of information technologies. In September 2011, the Government approved the first Strategic Program for Governance Technological Modernization, which provides a unified vision to modernize and improve public services and increase government efficiency.

Here are some highlights of the efforts up to date:

1.   Public Integrity

·         Open Data - Opening Government Data Initiative, one of the key pillars of the Governance e-Transformation agenda, was launched in April 2011, which made Moldova the 17th country to join the Global Open Data Initiative.  The open government data portal www.date.gov.mdwas launched and the Open Data Initiative was shortly institutionalized through the Prime Minister’s Directive. In February 2012, according to Prime Minister’s Indication, every central public institution assigned a person responsible for open data that form the open government data work group.

·         National Endowment for geospatial data – A State Cartographer-Geodetic Fund, as a subdivision of the Agency of Land Relations and Cadaster, was created with the scope of a centralized monitoring, storage and use of geodetic and cartographic documents. The Fund accumulates topographic, geodetic and cartographic materials of technical, scientific, economic, historical, social and cultural interest throughout the country.

·         Online Income Declarations – All the declarations of government officials and civil servants are scanned and mandatory published online.

·         Live streaming of government, parliamentary and other public administration meetings – The government has opened most of its meetings to live streaming. Media companies may come and record most of all these meetings, which therefore grant access to citizens to most of the public discussions and decisions. Thanks to this transparency initiative, Moldovan citizens followed live the long expected Presidential election on March 16, 2012.

2.   Public Services

·         Online public services portal – The Government has launched in April 20212 the public services portal www.servicii.gov.md. This single window access to all public services offers all the necessary information on public services delivered electronically and in traditional ways.

·         Public services digitization – Four most demanded public services are being currently digitized and implemented for delivery until the end of 2012. By 2020 all public services will be digitized.

·         Electronic Filing of Taxes – This service provides all individuals the ability to file taxes in electronic format, with application of an authentic electronic signature. This service represents an efficient instrument of creating, verifying, and filing the tax statement online, without the need for individuals to visit the tax office.

3.   Public Resources Management

·         Public expenditure data (BOOST) – In May 2011, The Ministry of Finance released for the first time a comprehensive Public Expenditure data base (BOOST), so that citizens can track how effectively and efficiently the government spends public money.

·         Common Procurement Vocabulary – In 2011 the Government of Moldova adopted a Regulation on the Common Procurement Vocabulary. In August 2012, The Public Procurement Agency will start implementing the regulation according to a strategy currently being elaborated. This will ensure the respect of principles of an efficient use of public resources as well as it will consolidate public procurement transparency.