The USAID MISRA program has announced a call for applications for grants of up to $150 thousand to improve Moldova’s business climate.
According to USAID, the competition is open to initiatives that improve the business climate through reforms in transportation, logistics, trade, customs, or tax services. Proposals may include the following innovative ideas: improving public services, transparency, and accountability; digitizing public services; improving public-private coordination; opening access to information, financing, communication, research, or innovation in the private sector, among others. Preference will be given to ideas that can have a positive impact on doing business in Moldova, in particular by women. For more information, please visit https://clck.ru/35NzPT. As a reminder, USAID has launched a series of grant programs with a total budget of $3.5 million, spread over 4 years (2023-2026), to promote Moldova's economic growth. The program will be implemented in several phases, each focusing on a specific topic, and is open to eligible non-governmental, private and quasi-public organizations (academic institutions, universities, etc.). Priority areas of funding for the MISRA program include: promotion of westward-oriented trade; promotion of e-commerce; financial and digital education of the population; optimization of customs operations and infrastructure at Romanian/EU border crossings; digitalization of public administration processes; implementation of advanced technologies to optimize cross-border transport; sustainable and inclusive recovery from the impact of the regional crisis; improvement of the institutional environment, business environment and facilitation of cross-border transport; improvement of the business environment; and improvement of the financial and economic environment.// 21.08.2023 - InfoMarket
