📋 Tender Overview
With one third of Moldova’s population living abroad, the current country`s leadership is firmly committed to harness the development potential of migration. Previous Swiss-supported interventions resulted in a unique mobilization of Moldovan migrants committed to contribute to the development of their home communities. Switzerland will further support Moldova to ensure the sustainability of diaspora engagement models and to improve evidence-based governance through reliable demographic statistics, including migration trends
Background Moldova's population is decreasing at one of the fastest rates globally, because of the negative natural growth combined with one of the world's highest emigration rates. Emigrants remain generally attached to their communities of origin and are willing to contribute to their development. While in the past eight years the innovative models of diaspora engagement (such as Home-town Associations / HTAs), which has been developed and expanded with Swiss support, achieved important results in strengthening the relations between the state, local communities and emigrants, the process requires further systemic support from the Government of Moldova and development partners.
Objectives Moldovan people have improved living standards, benefitting from more inclusive, accountable, responsive, and evidencebased governance, and from increased participation of migrants and diaspora in their home country’s sustainable development.
Target groups Relevant central and local authorities, civil society organizations (incl. HTAs and diaspora associations), migrants, community members, and academia. Final beneficiary is the Moldovan society as a whole, benefitting from improved democratic processes, reliable data and evidence-based development interventions. In the spirit of the "leave no one behind" (LNOB) principle, the project will ensure meaningful involvement of vulnerable groups (people with disabilities, refugees from Ukraine, etc.).
Medium-term outcomes This project will further strengthen the institutional framework of the M&D sector, by ensuring the sustainability of migrants’ engagement models and by improving evidence-based governance. Outcome 1: Central and local authorities plan and implement more inclusive, accountable, and responsive policies based on population projections and demographic realities, duly considering migration trends and different models of diaspora/migrants’ engagement. Outcome 2: Community members, including migrants / diaspora and vulnerable / excluded groups, meaningfully engage in developing democratic and resilient communities.
Results Expected results: - Governmental mechanisms are enhanced to support community development with participation of civil society and migrants. - The population projections and disaggregated demographic data at national and sub-national levels (incl. migration profiles) enable local and central authorities to develop and implement evidence-based, inc
