Promoting a human rights compliant criminal justice system in the Republic of Moldova

The Programme ”Promoting a human rights compliant criminal justice system in the Republic of Moldova” is in line with the strategic priorities for cooperation as formulated in the Council of Europe Action Plan for the Republic of Moldova for 2017-2020, and is funded by the Norwegian government.

It is aimed to ensure a higher respect for human rights and the rule of law by assisting the national authorities in building up an efficiently functioning criminal justice system, in line with European human rights standards, and based on the principles of humanisation, resocialisation and restorative justice.

Main intervention areas will cover policy/legal framework, institutional and practical implementation levels, with the focus on:

Consolidation of criminal justice policy, legislation and judiciary practice in line with international standards with respect to the liberalization of criminal proceedings, including strengthening the application of non-custodial pre-trial preventive measures and sanctions, alternative sanctions in criminal cases, improvement of probation services and release on parole mechanisms
Better treatment and resocialisation of inmates by improving the regulatory and policy framework as well as prison staff capacities relevant to regime arrangements and management of prisons, implementation of treatment programmes and provision of health care services for inmates;
Support towards the development of the capacities of criminal justice stakeholders in the light of the implementation of the on-going reforms, including judiciary, prosecution service, as well as Ombudsperson’s institution and National Prevention Mechanism (NPM).

The Programme is expected to be implemented in 36 months (as of 1 March 2018).

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Back Second cascade training piloting the training Curriculum for probation councillors on drafting pre-sentence reports in the Republic of Moldova

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The second cascade training was held in Chisinau, on 3-4 October 2019, and was conducted by a group of 6 trained probation councillors who in turn trained 15 peers from territorial Probation Offices.

The cascade training sessions (three in total) are part of the second phase of piloting the Curriculum. During this phase the Curriculum modules are gradually being tested to ensure the coverage of all aspects related to drafting pre-sentence reports and, at the same time, involving all the probation councillors in evaluating the Curriculum. Hence, the methodology for training the probation councilors in drafting pre-sentence reports is being fine-tuned accordingly.

The training was organised in the context of the assistance provided to the NIP under the auspices of the Programme “Promoting a human rights compliant criminal justice system in the Republic of Moldova”, funded by the Government of Norway and implemented by the Council of Europe.

Chisinau 3-4 October 2019