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 Coordination meeting on the revision of the Methodology on the organisation and delivery of professional training of the prison system employees

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A coordination meeting on the revision of the Methodology on the organisation and delivery of professional training of the prison system employees was held on 11 June 2020 online.

The meeting resulted in adjusting the Methodology, drafted by National Administration of Penitentiary (NAP) in 2006, to the current legal framework, the Law 300/2017 on the prison administration system. Moreover, it started aligning the Methodology with the Strategy for the Development of Human Resources within the prison system and the Curriculum for the initial training of prison staff, all prepared under the Council of Europe Programme.

The revised Methodology will serve as a guidance instrument for the NAP to plan, implement and evaluate the initial, continuous and professional development of the prison system staff.

The coordination meeting was attended online by representatives of NAP TC, concerned NAP departments and directorates (institutional management, legal, human resources) and by representatives of individual penitentiaries (no 5 Cahul and no 12 Bender) and was facilitated by the Council of Europe consultants. It was organised 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.

Republic of Moldova 11 June 2020