Polish aid

Deputy Minister Wiśniewski’s Moldovan agenda included talks with Minister of Internal Affairs Adrian Efros, MFA’s State Secretary Carolina Perebinos, and Secretary General of the Government of Moldova Artur Mija. The consultations with the Moldovan politicians dealt with the areas of Poland’s development cooperation with Moldova and prospects for its continuation. The discussions focused also on support for the latter country’s European Union accession process and on the major issues in Polish-Moldovan economic cooperation.

During the visit, Deputy Minister Jakub Wiśniewski signed an agreement with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) stipulating that Poland will donate more than USD 1 million for refurbishing and fully equipping one of the 35 Model Schools that are being set up in Moldova as part of its education system reform. The agreement was signed in the presence of Moldova’s Minister of Education and Research Dan Perciun, who outlined the Model School project and thanked Poland for supporting its implementation.

While in Moldova, Deputy Minister Wiśniewski spoke with beneficiaries of projects co-financed from Polish development cooperation funds in Cimișlia, where the Polish Embassy in Chișinău has carried out five initiatives so far, totalling more than PLN 200,000. The deputy minister also paid a visit to the Solidarity Fund PL Representation in Chișinău. Established in 2013, the Moldova branch of Solidarity Fund PL has now worked towards rural development and urban renewal with the use of Polish development cooperation funds. To this end, it has cooperated with other donors engaged in Moldova, namely the European Commission, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the German development cooperation agency GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH), and the Austrian Development Agency (ADA).