AmCham - member of National Participative Council

AmCham - member of National Participative Council

• 24.10.2008

In summer of this year, Moldovan Government launched the idea of creation of the National Participative Council which would facilitate the participation and consultation of the civil society in the process of development, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and updating of the strategic planning papers of the country. In the same time, this Council would perform the functions of those 3 main forums available for consultations of the stakeholders in the country strategic planning process at Government level: Economic Council under the Prime Minister, National Committee for Technical Assistance provided to the Republic of Moldova and Participative Council for the development, monitoring and evaluation of the National development Strategy. It was assumed that this step will allow generalizing the experience of participating and communicating with the stakeholders by adopting minimal standards of consultation at the level of the Executive and will lay the foundations of an integrated institutional framework of consultation, essential for ministries where policy units have been set up. Finally, in September 2008, the National Participative Council was officially established. There were almost 42 representatives of the patronage, trade unions, civil society organizations forming networks, alliances, coalitions, unions, umbrella organizations and development partners specialized in specific fields applying for the membership in the National Participative Council. Nevertheless, only 33 applicants became the final members of this Council, among which being the American Chamber of Commerce in Moldova. By the end of the same month, after a long round of discussions, there were elected the Chair of the Council, Arcadie Barbăroşie, the Executive Director of the Institute of Public Policies, and the Vice-chair Aurelia Bondari, the Executive Director of the National Federation of Farmers AGROinform. There was also approved the NPC Regulation. According to this Regulation, the National participative Council is a consultative Forum, activating under the Government, which aim is to facilitate the participation of the civil society and private sector in the process of elaboration, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and updating of the national policies. NPC is formed by 33 associations which are elected for 2 years. We see AmCham membership in NPC as a very important step in the dialogue with the government as it opens the possibility to have a direct contact with the policy makers, facilitating the two way communication and ensuring the collecting and transmission of the feedback from the private sector and civil society to the Executive. AmCham is represented at the Council by Mila Dodon, Project Manager. For any additional information and, in case you have some suggestions regarding the activity of the National Participative Council, do not hesitate to contact AmCham Office.