Business people can use, on a trial basis, the Entrepreneur’s Cabinet, a digital platform that offers them simpler access to financing programs and services of the Organization for Entrepreneurship Development. According to the OED, the new system reduces the processing time of applications from eight to three working days and automatically checks the eligibility of applicants, reports IPN.

The platform is available at e-cabinet.oda.md and was developed with the support of the Swiss Government, through the OPTIM project, implemented by Helvetas Moldova. At this stage, functionalities and workflow are being tested before the official launch.

ODA specifies that the data entered by users during the testing period will be used exclusively for verifying the platform’s functionality. The submitted files will not be evaluated, and no funding will be granted based on them.

According to the ODA, through the platform, some of the information necessary for filing applications will be automatically taken from public registers. Thus, the time to complete requests will be reduced, data entry errors will be diminished, and the process of accessing funding will become simpler and faster.