Comparative analysis of good governance for Romania and Moldova
The project ”Bridge of Good Governance” encourages bilateral collaboration and the transfer of good practices between Romania and the Republic of Moldova by monitoring the degree of legislation implementation in priority areas such as access to information of public interest and administrative transparency.
The first step consisted of connecting the platforms romaniacurata.ro and moldovacurata.md.
Working together with experts of the Romanian Academic Society (which coordinates the Clean Romania platform), of the Advocacy Academy (promotor of Coalition 52) and the Association of Free Press from Chisinau (coordinator of the Clean Moldova platform), volunteers from both sides of the river Prut have worked on creating the means to monitor the way in which the freedom of information acts (Law 544/2001 – Romania and Law 982/2000 – Republic of Moldova) have been
observed from the moment that institutions and state authorities have had the obligation to submit activity reports. Both the Romanian and Moldovan side used the same methodology.
It has been checked whether the annual activity reports are published in a visible part of the websites belonging to the verified institutions: ministries, county / raion councils, county / raion capital city halls. Similarly, research has been done into whether the content of said documents contains all of the information required by the law (both the quantity and the quality of the reports was verified).
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