All resources: Moldova, Republic of

Meet the Specialists: Kenichi Hirose, Social protection

Ken Hirose, Senior Technical Specialist for Social protection, Occupational Safety and Health, and Labour inspection shares how he assists ILO partners and constituents in improving the quality of work and safety of workers in Central and Eastern...

Meet the Specialists: Iulia Drumea, Employers' organizations

Iulia Drumea, Employers' Organizations Specialist explains how she supports ILO work with Employers organizations in Central and Eastern Europe. Employers organizations work to create a business-friendly environment for their members. The ILO...

How to promote youth employment and safety at work in Moldova? – New facts and figures published

Every four years, the ILO develops a Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) for Moldova. The planning framework is the the main vehicle for delivery of ILO support to the country. For the new DWCP 2021 to 2024 coming out in fall of this year, Moldovan...

Market systems analysis - Moldova

Safety and Security at Work

A Systems Analysis for Moldova’s Decent Work Country Programme 2021-2024

Youth Employment

Market systems analysis on Youth Employment - Moldova

A Systems Analysis for Moldova’s Decent Work Country Programme 2021-2024

Meet the Specialists: Daniela Zampini, Employment creation

Daniela Zampini, the Employment Specialist of the ILO Office for Central and Eastern Europe explains what she does to create more and better jobs, how she works with governments, employers, workers, civil society organizations or municipalities, and...

Meet the Specialists: Magnus Berge, Workers organizations

Magnus Berge, Senior Specialist for Workers' Organizations explains how he supports ILO work with Trade Unions in Central and Eastern Europe. He promotes Trade Unions so that they can work more effectively to improve working conditions of workers...

Inclusive employment

Honey and berries: untapped growth potential in Moldova’s agricultural sector

New ILO research on the honey and berry value chains in the Republic of Moldova reveals how these two sectors can further grow and promote inclusive employment. Honey exports increased 10 times in the past decade. The berry sector has grown to...

Occupational Safety and Health

The Republic of Moldova ratifies the Occupational Health Services Convention, 1985 (No. 161)

ILO Working paper 32

Digital Work in Eastern Europe: Overview of Trends, Outcomes, and Policy Responses

This paper presents the emergence and growth of digital labour markets in Eastern Europe over the period 1999-2019. It presents the profiles of digital workers, their working conditions and discusses how these are shaped by the business models of...

A synergy of growth and employment opportunities

With funding from the British Embassy Chisinau through the UK’s Good Governance Fund, the ILO was tasked to conduct a market systems analysis of the berry sector in the Republic of Moldova. The aim of this study was to better understand the market...

Sweetening the potential for decent work: A market systems analysis of the honey sector in the Republic of Moldova

With funding from the British Embassy Chisinau through the UK’s Good Governance Fund, the ILO was tasked to conduct a market systems analysis of the honey sector in the Republic of Moldova. The aim of this study was to better understand the market...

International Training Centre of the ILO

New challenges for TVET and skills development - what do you want to learn today?

The importance of learning new skills has never been as evident as in the last year. Almost overnight, all of the global workforce had to admit they faced challenges with their digital skills. We had to switch to new ways of managing work and doing...

ILO Convention No. 161

Moldova pledges safer and healthier workplaces

In Moldova, if you choose to work in construction, agriculture or transportation you may run a high risk of work-related injury. This is what the statistics tell us. In 2019, every third work-related accident in the construction sector caused a loss...

Towards a comprehensive and resilient social security system

Social security and COVID-19: Which measures were effective in protecting workers?

The recent ILO report reviews the national social security measures in response to the COVID-19 crisis, analyses their effectiveness, and discusses future challenges in improving the social security systems. The report covers seven countries in the...

Assessment of the Social Security Responses to COVID-19

The report reviews the COVID-19 situation and economic data, the social security and related measures implemented to address the economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemics during the first lockdown in the second quarter of 2020.

My labour, my rights

Do you know your labour rights? Web-based solutions developed by ILO keep youth and workers informed in North Macedonia and Moldova

Youngsters tend to be inseparable from their phones, spending hours connecting with friends, searching for information, or playing games. This habitual use of smartphones is what the ILO built on when it launched the national competition for...

The Republic of Moldova ratifies the 1986 Constitutional Amendment

Lifelong learning

Why Trade Unions should act on Skills Development – and how?

To build a ‘better normal’ in the post-COVID-19 world of work, skills development and lifelong learning need to be part of economic transformation. This responsibility should not reside with governments and companies alone. Trade Unions have an...

Preventing work accidents

Reform of the reform in the Republic of Moldova: New law puts State Labour Inspectorate back in charge of occupational safety and health

The Republic of Moldova adopted, on 22 December 2020, the amendment law that restores the functions of the State Labour Inspectorate as the control body of occupational safety and health (OSH) and the investigation of work accidents. This is a first...