Procurement: Organisational development for Core Support Partners in Moldova - Questions and Answers (part 2)

Question: Could you please share with us information about the 6 CSOs that were audited in 2018 and who will, potentially, be supported during 2019?

Answer: In 2018 new 6 CSOs were selected by the Embassy to be supported through pre-core support in 2019:

• Artemida (Drochia) working in the field of combating domestic violence
• VESTA (Comrat) working in the field of combating domestic violence
• CONTACT Centre (Chisinau) working in the field of civil society development, transparency of local public authorities
• ADEPT (Chisinau) working in the field of democracy, electoral processes
• Center for Investigative Journalists (Chisinau) working in the field of anticorruption, transparency, media investigation
• Association of Journalists for Environment and Ecological Tourism from Republic of Moldova (Chisinau) working in the field of environmental media

Question: We have 11 CSOs entering Phase 3 of the SIDA support program (5 CSOs have signed the CS agreements with another 6 to be evaluated for entering CS program [4]). Please confirm or infirm this.

Answer: In 2018 the Embassy singed 5 new core support Agreements. In 2019, 6 new pre-core support Agreements are to be singed. After pre-core support implementation the CSOs will be evaluated and only based on this evaluation the Embassy will decide to enter or not into core support Agreements.

Question: The Consultant is expected to deliver OD services for CSOs entering step 3 of the SIDA support program.

Answer: The Consultant is expected to deliver consultancy services to all CSOs - core support partners the Embassy is working with. To this date the Embassy has the following partnerships:

• 4 core support Agreements that will expire in June 2019
• 1 strategic core support for un umbrella organisation
• 5 core support Agreements concluded in 2018
• 6 pre-core support Agreements to be signed in 2019
• additional CSOs that will be potentially selected by the Embassy during the consultancy contract period.