Research on Child Poverty in Moldova

Project title: Research on Child Poverty in Moldova;

Implementation period: September 1 – October 20, 2006;

Funded by: UNICEF-Moldova;

Project goal: Conduct a research on child poverty in Moldova identifying key-factors behind the child-poverty and propose policy solutions for addressing child poverty;

Main activities:

• Collected official statistical data;
• Conducted interviews with key policy stakeholders;
• Integrated the analytical report;;

Main outputs and outcomes:

• Policy Study “Child poverty in Moldova”, authors Valeriu Prohnitchi, Alex Oprunenco and Maria Vremis;

Project impact:

The project has shown that the transition in the recent one and half decade has had a disproportionately high impact on children. One of the key consequences is the high incidence of child poverty, a somehow new and very strange phenomenon. This poverty manifests not only as material poverty, but also in other dimensions, such as education, health and social protection.