Program overview

The East East: Partnership beyond Borders Program (EE:PBBP) aims to facilitate the establishment of relations between non-governmental organizations and institutions of Moldova with partners from Central and Eastern Europe, but also from other regions of the world, to raise issues of major concern for societies in development.

Initiatives developed within the EE:PBB Program are seen as ideas' generator that brings together diverse resources to influence social innovation, and overcome deficiencies in social change; to contribute to policy dialogue and formulation on urgent and long-term concerns, responding to urgent needs of society, empowering people to work together toward common goals. The problems approached within the program focuses on contemporary global challenges of social development, including the positive but also negative aspects of social change, stressing attention especially on experience valuable to be examined.

Therefore, the program supports regional and international initiatives, partnerships and social activism through a comparative prospect, facilitates the exchange of ideas and information, the study of relevant models and practices of development, and encourages the active engagement of the civil society into social, economic and political dialogue to contribute towards building the open society in Moldova.

The EE:PBB Program is a network program of the Open Society Institute-New York, currently based at the Open Society Foundation in London, that has been run in Moldova since 1993. Throughout these years, the relationship of the non-governmental organizations and institutions of Moldova with various institutions from Central and Eastern Europe have been established, including those from Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Macedonia, Romania, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, etc. The program is further interested in keeping and encouraging experience exchange with other countries of the world, either at the regional or at the global levels.

The projects implemented in Moldova during last years were developed in correspondence with the following strategic directions:

• Supporting Moldova’s European integration efforts through support for regional and transborder cooperation;
• Studying through comparative perspective the experience gained by the countries of the region that face similar problems of social, economic or cultural concern by developing various workshops, meetings, exchange visits, case studies, etc.;
• Examining available experiences from the region in promoting social, educational and legislative transformations;
• Encouraging community development through sustainable development of rural communities aimed at supporting activities that facilitate citizens participation in the local decision making based on advanced experience;
• Facilitating communication between young people through addressing themes of common interest in the field of education, associative life, exchange programs, etc.;
• Promoting confidence building in multicultural societies and conflict resolution strategies focusing on deficiencies in social environment; studying positive experiences available in the region at overcoming communication barriers and misunderstandings, etc.

• Enforcing transfer of the EU accession experiences in Central Europe to EU eastern neighbors, including Moldova;
• Supporting establishment of a functional legal framework for democratic changes within the Moldovan society;
• Contributing to the process of building partnerships between civil society and decision-makers at various levels to address issues of transformation;
• Strengthening citizens’ activism and participation in addressing issues crucial for sustainable development of the society;
• Empowering NGOs and individuals to shape new political, economic and academic elites through acquiring new experiences throughout the world, offering alternative sources of information, etc.

In the process of the Hosting Projects’ examination and evaluation, several things are taken into account: the competence of those who are going to develop these projects (initiative group, NGO, PLA, etc.), accumulated organizational experience and abilities to demonstrate enough resources to fulfill and implement the proposed objectives. The interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach towards the raised problems is an advantage. Special attention will be offered to the compartments that underline how significant from the regional perspective and how actual the raised topics are, as well as the expected impact on the local community in the specific area. Potential organizers interested to develop a hosting project are encouraged to identify future partners in the region and to determine the field of common interest aiming at setting up a future project through joint efforts.

• How to Apply to EE:PBB Program
• Guidelines for the development of the Final Hosting Project Report
• Projects implemented in 2009

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