The “Support to the Moldovan Bar Association” Project is part of Council of Europe and European Union Programmatic Co-operation Framework for 2015-2017 (Theme II “Ensuring Justice”, aiming at “Improving the quality of the profession of lawyers (advocates)”.

The project’s specific objectives were to strengthen the self-governing bodies of lawyers (advocates) including their role in recruitment, training and disciplinary proceedings and strengthen the national training institutions of legal professionals.

For a period of 21 months (March 2015 - December 2016), the project provided expertise and capacity building support to the Ministry of Justice and the Moldovan Union of Lawyers and its structures, through 35 conferences, workshops, round tables and visits for more than 500 participants.

The approval of a number of key documents (the Strategy for 2016-2020, the Communication policy, the revised Code of Ethics), re-established relations with the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe, a new twinning between the Cahul and Gdansk Bars, relations established with the European Women Bar Association, a pool of MBA trainers specialised in adult learning, a pool of ethics trainers were among most valuable achievements acquired through joint work.