Projects
- Finance - tax reforms; provision of capital and marketing assistance
Moldova
- Agriculture - help local farming communities with strategic marketing, deve
training local trainers in financial management and record-keeping.
Project name
Business Regulatory and Tax
Administration Reform Project
John Ogonowski Farmer-to-
Farmer Program
Western NIS Enterprise Fund
Women’s Career
Development Program
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Moldova Rapid Governance
Support Program
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- Finance - tax reforms; provision of capital and marketing assistance
- Agriculture - help local farming communities with strategic marketing, development of farmer cooperatives
training local trainers in financial management and record-keeping.
Objective
The Business Regulation and Tax Administration Reform Project
seeks to improve the business environment in Moldova by
implementing reforms in the business and tax sectors. To achieve
this, the project is working with the Government of Moldova to reduce
administrative burdens on the private sector, streamline tax
administration, reduce opportunities for corruption, improve access to
government information, and strengthen public-private sector
dialogue.
The Farmer-to Farmer program mobilizes skilled volunteers to assist
individual farmers and farmer cooperatives in grassroots initiatives
that impact agribusiness development. Roughly 35 volunteers, many
of whom have over 20 years of farming and business experience in
the U.S, participate every year. Volunteers work side by side with
Moldovan farmers in assignments that help local farming communities
with strategic marketing, development of farmer cooperatives,
assistance with developing budgets and work plans, and training local
trainers in financial management and record-keeping.
The Western NIS Enterprise Fund, a private equity fund with a
management portfolio of $150 million, promotes the expansion and
strengthening of privatized Moldovan businesses by providing capital,
management and marketing assistance, and information systems for
new and/or existing enterprises. The Fund makes equity investments
and debt transactions including direct loans to entrepreneurs and
lease-financing for equipment and/or property to those companies
that demonstrate strong prospects for growth and a high rate of
return on investment.
The Women’s Career Development Program will empower vulnerable
women with the capabilities to make independent strategic life
choices and to improve their economic welfare. The program will
identify, train, and find employment opportunities for at least 300
vulnerable and disadvantaged women from northern Moldova and will
ensure the self-sustainability of the program by creating an income-
generating social enterprise that benefits the community.
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The Moldova Rapid Governance Support Program is designed to
provide limited expert assistance to Moldovan Government Ministries
and Offices, the Judicial Sector, and the Parliament to help address
obstacles which may be hindering the implementation of key reforms.
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ng assistance
egic marketing, development of farmer cooperatives, assistance with developing budgets and work plans, and
rd-keeping.
Components Timing
Sept. 2007 – Sept. 2011
Sept. 2009 – Sept. 2013
June 1995 – onward
July 2009 – March 2013
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expert consulting on policy,
organizational or management issues,
training and study trips, rapid
assessments, and drafting of action March 2010 – Nov. 2011
plans
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with developing budgets and work plans, and
Contact information
http://moldova.usaid.gov/moldova_economi
c.shtml
http://moldova.usaid.gov/moldova_econo
mic.shtml
http://moldova.usaid.gov/moldova_econo
mic.shtml
http://moldova.usaid.gov/moldova_econo
mic.shtml
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