Main Project Activities

2015

• Review of regional statistical indicators currently produced by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and other authorities assessing their compliance with Eurostat and OECD practices;
• Undertake a comprehensive assessment of statistical and regional development national level regulations with respect to producing and using regional statistics;
• Facilitate consultations between NBS and key regional statistics users on identification of purposes for regional statistics;
• Organise a study tour to a recent EU accession country
• Conduct a “Statistical Gaps” exercise comparing the Moldovan set of regional statistics available with the preferred set of indicators based on Eurostat and OECD requirements;
• Provide advice to NBS on compilation of an optimal set of regional statistics indicators;
• Organise a study tour to Eurostat on key indicators required from EU member states on different NUTS levels
• Provide assistance to NBS and the Ministry of Regional Development and Construction (MRDC) for development of an optimal alignment between the statistical and development regions;
• Develop an action plan on improving regional statistics for NBS and MRDC;
• Assess NBS capacities and training needs

2016

• Produce a renewed design for survey samples based on the development regions;
• Organise a study tour to an EU-15 member to investigate the organisation of regional statistics;
• Training sessions on introduction to the concepts and data needs for the calculation of regional accounts;
• Compilation of regional GVA inventories;
• Produce regional GVA estimations;
• Assist NBS to produce data for regional accounts;
• Review statistical training provided in Moldovan universities;
• Assist in developing an annual regional statistical publication
• Review and update regional development strategies based on the newly produced statistics;
• Assist Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) in performing M&E of the regional development policy based on the newly available statistics;
• Creation of a training capacity in MRDC and NBS for the analysis of regional data;
• Development of a user-friendly application for using and analysis of regional data;
• Deliver training for software users on producing regional analysis;
• Publication of comparative analysis between Moldovan and EU regions.