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 First Meeting of the Working Group for the development of a training module for the prison staff working with young offenders

The first meeting of the working group for the development of a training Module for the prison staff working with young offenders - was conducted online on 17-18 November 2021.

The meeting resulted in a clear plan of distribution of tasks and deadlines among the members of the working group. At the substance level, the outline of the module and the benchmarks for its development as well as the template module descriptor were presented and agreed.

The activity builds on the results of the Strategy for the development of human resources in the penitentiary system of the Republic of Moldova and the revised Curriculum for the induction training of prison staff within the prison system, which is an important step forward towards securing the sustainability prison staff training.

The working group meeting was facilitated by the Council of Europe consultants and was attended online by the management of the National Administration of Penitentiaries of Moldova (NAP), representatives of NAP specialised departments (security and penitentiary regime, social reintegration) representatives of NAP Training Centre, directors from individual penitentiaries no. 10 Goian, no.5 Cahul, no.17 Rezina, no.11 Balti and no. 13 Chisinau, and heads of specialised units from these prisons (social reintegration, human resources, security and penitentiary regime).

The activity was organised under the auspices of the Programme “Strengthening the prison and probation reforms, provision of health care and the treatment of patients in closed institutions in the Republic of Moldova”, financed through the Council of Europe Action Plan for the Republic of Moldova (2021-2024) and implemented by the Council of Europe.

Moldova 24 November 2021