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MOLDOVA SOCIAL INVESTMENT FUND SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT 2009 (January – June 2009) Presented by Moldova Social Investment Fund Executive Office Chişinău - 2009 SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT 2009, MOLDOVA SOCIAL INVESTMENT FUND 1 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS BA Beneficiary Association EA Economic Agents IA Implementing Agency LPA Local Public Administration PTA Parents and Teachers Association CDD Community Driven Development EC Executive Committee SEN Special Educational Needs DFID British Department for International Development MSIF Moldova Social Investment Fund LS Local Supervisor FSP European Commission Food Security Program JSDF Japanese Social Development Fund KfW The National Bank of Germany „Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau” OM Operational Manual MIA Ministry of Internal Affairs MEY Ministry of Education and Youth PME Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation NGO Non-governmental Organization RM Republic of Moldova UNDP United Nations Development Program EGPRS Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy SIDA Swedish International Development Agency UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund TAUG Territorial-Autonomous Unit of Gagauzia SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT 2009, MOLDOVA SOCIAL INVESTMENT FUND 2 Table of Contents Executive Summary.......................................................................................................................4 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................7 Component 1. Community Development ....................................................................................9 1.1 Rural Community Development for the first time participating deprived villages.....................10 1.2 Rural Community Development for communities that have benefited from the financial support of MSIF and have demonstrated high levels of community development (CDD subprojects)....11 1.3 Urban Community Development (for towns with a population of up to 20 000 inhabitants).....12 1.4 Community Development for localities solving problems of drinking water..............................13 1.5 Community Development for localities renovating culture houses ............................................14 1.6 Community Development for the localities implementing quality educational projects ............14 1.7 Community Development for the communities included in the Project promoted by UNICEF „Child Friendly Schools”...........................................................................................................16 Component 2. Development of Social Care Services................................................................16 Component 3. Capacity Building, Communication, Monitoring and Evaluation.................18 3.1 Capacity building through the transfer of knowledge and accumulated experience.................19 3.2 Monitoring and Evaluation.........................................................................................................19 3.3 Communication, dissemination and replication of best practices ..............................................21 3.4 Community Foundations.............................................................................................................24 Component 4. Project Management ..........................................................................................24 4.1 Financial Activity........................................................................................................................24 Diagram 4 Structure of MSIF2 budget by cathegory of expenditure........................................25 4.2 Administrative Activity................................................................................................................26 4.3 Activity in the area of procurement ............................................................................................26 4.4 Evaluation of MSIF activities .....................................................................................................27 Annexes.........................................................................................................................................28 Table 2. Access to improved social services........................................................................................................28 Table 3. List of subprojects and grants at implementation stage and finished....................................................28 Table 4. Population involvement in the needs identification and decision taking process..................................46 Table 9. Integrtated Social Care Services (Component 2) ..................................................................................47 Table 10. Training carried out under the MSIF 2 Project ..................................................................................48 Table 12. The MSIF2 Total Budget (2004-2010), USD......................................................................................50 Table 13. Consolidated Report regarding financial sources and their assimilation..........................................51 SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT 2009, MOLDOVA SOCIAL INVESTMENT FUND 3 Executive Summary Moldova Social Investment Fund 2 represents a mechanism for management of the financial sources offered to Republic of Moldova by the World Bank, different donors, as well as from the State Budget. Rural and urban communities benefit of this sources, financial support being offered according to their stringent needs. The summary reflects the main results registered during the activity performed within the MSIF 2 Project, including the period of the report. Component 1 – Community Development Promotion was carried out in all the districts of the republic. 784 proposals for financing were submitted, including 18 requests of grant and subprojects proposals during the period of the report. As result of the subprojects and grants implementation about 820000 people from 510 rural and urban communities from the whole country benefit of access to improved social services. Subcomponent 1.1. Rural community development. Deprived villages were identified by the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Moldova based on the deprivation index. In order to develop the capacities of the potential beneficiaries communities there was selected a team of local facilitators, who facilitated the process of subprojects identification and implementation. An average of 40,4% of the adult population from deprived villages (of which 61,3% were women) participated in identifying subproject proposals. 33,7% of adults participated at General Community Meetings (minimum 30% as per the OM), while 53,2% participated at referenda (50% + 1 as per the OM). From 422 of subprojects proposals submitted cumulatively for approval and financing by MSIF (including 10 in the report period) 320 subprojects were finished, including 48 subprojects during the report period. Subcomponent 1.2. Rural community development (CDD projects). At community level the evaluation is made in participatory way, while at districts level there were organized a common meetings of the representatives from all the participant communities to competitions regarding the results of the evaluation in the field. 8 CDD competitions were organized. The drafting or the updating of socio-economic development strategic plans was facilitated in 97 localities. In the needs identification and decision taking process were involved 38,7% from the adult population, of which 65,3% were women. 145 grant requests were submitted for financing during the period of the report. Out of the 120 grant applications, that include 125 CDD subprojects, approved for implementation, 105 are finished, and the other 15 are at different stages of implementation. Subcomponent 1.3. Urban community development. Promotion was carried out in 46 small towns wit a population up to 20 000 inhabitants. 18 towns, which did not have socio-economic development strategic plans, benefited of technical assistance and training from the company Business Consulting Institute (BCI), hired by MSIF for their elaboration. SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT 2009, MOLDOVA SOCIAL INVESTMENT FUND 4 54 grant requests were submitted for financing by the end of the period of report. 52 grant requests were approved for implementation, 49 of them, that includes 63 subprojects, are finished . Subcomponent 1.4. Community development for localities which solve the potable water supply and sewage problem. Communities potentially beneficiaries of investments were selected based on a research made by the National Practico-Scientific Center of Preventive Medicine within the Food Security Program of the European Commission. 19,2% of the total adult persons from these communities, out of which 58,7% were women, were involved in the subproject identification process by taking part at different meetings: focus groups, general meetings, meetings of the representatives, referenda. About 5700 persons took part at the General meetings and meetings of representatives, more than 7900 persons took part at referenda. At the moment European Commission finances allocated to the respective subcomponent are fully accomplished. 18 subprojects, out of those 22 proposals submitted by the communities, were approved for financing, all of them were finished. Subcomponent 1.5.Community development for localities which renovate culture houses. At the competition had access the communities, whose culture houses were