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Independent Final Cluster Evaluation of RBSA-funded outcomes in Moldova: MDA104, MDA130

eval_number:

1850339

eval_url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/eval/1850339

location:

country:

Republic of Moldova

region:

Europe and Central Asia

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eval_title:

Independent Final Cluster Evaluation of RBSA-funded outcomes in Moldova: MDA104, MDA130

recommendations:

date:

2024-07-22 00:00:00.0

themes:

theme:

Enterprises

category:

Small or micro - enterprises

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comments:

If the LEP evolves into a national program supported by the state budget, it could significantly enhance its capacity to address the recommendations. Such a program would allow for greater flexibility to focus on sector-specific targets and regional needs, thereby supporting initiatives to increase small business competitiveness, formalization, and certification. This expanded framework would enable the LEP to adapt to strategic sectors like sustainable biological agriculture, address local economic development challenges, and integrate greening efforts effectively.

management_response:

No Action Planned

progress:

No implementation

admin_units:

DWT/CO-Budapest

title:

RECOMMENDATION 7: Make LEP professional sector-oriented with a view to increasing small business’s competitiveness, formalisation, certification, and job creation. This could be achieved by concentrating LEP support scheme to specific economic/professional sectors in order the increase the sustainability and longer-term socio-economic development impact of a LEP. DETAILS: It is recommended to widen the scope of LEP by including sector-support services in order to stimulate and protect sector with high, greening, sustainable and strategic potential. This should imply several measures aiming at strengthening of professional structuring of the sector (support to professional sector organisations, district-level sector development strategy support, cooperative development support, support to value-chain development…). Sector-specific LEP can include several districts provided cross-districts cooperation within the same sector, strengthens both the sector and the district. A preliminary activity should include a study of the potential economic development and weaknesses of selected districts and sectors (criteria for selection may include possibilities for NEET inclusiveness, Greening and environmental protection…). It is no secret that sustainable biological agriculture and derived healthy food belong to Moldova’s natural assets. However, the potential of those assets remains untapped, and those sectors are insufficiently structured, strategic and its economic operators are often isolated. The previous recommendation suggests supporting some strategic sectors in appropriate districts of Moldova. Supporting specific sectors are recommended to be accompanied by taking small businesses to the next level, i.e., to strengthen small business’s robustness and resilience to the shocks it has proven highly vulnerable to. Greening of business should be an integral part of business development services and should also be tailored in coherence with sector specific LEP support.

project_symbols:

MDA/21/01/RBS

url:

https://webapps.ilo.org/ievaldiscovery/recommendations/1859766

information_source:

Country Office

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