The Alliance of Active NGOs in Social Protection of Child and Family will constitute a working group initially consisting of three nongovernmental organizations that will contribute to the creation of the normative framework for implementing the Law on the Regulation of the Legal Status of Adoption. The law took effect on January 30 this year. Within three months, the three NGOs will help the Government to formulate the framework needed for this law to work. The working group will include representatives of Amici dei Bambini Moldova, Save the Children Moldova, and the Association of Adoptive Parents, Info-Prim Neo reports. The Alliance’s president Mariana Ianachevici told a news conference that the working group will share its own experience. “We do not want to invent something new. The three organizations will share their experience and provide support to the Ministry of Labor, Social Protection and Family,” she stated. The three associations have experience in assessing the conditions and moral guarantees and the preparedness of the adoptive parents as well as in post-adoption monitoring. The law clearly defines the post-adoption period, but does not say who should monitor it. The working group will analyze who should monitor this period – the inspector or the psychologist. Rodica Gavrilita, chairwoman of the Association of Adoptive Parents, said the working group will also help the parents to prepare for adoption. “We consider the parents who adopted a child should form part of the working group for preparing the future adoptive parents so that they easier overcome the difficulties,” she said. Amici dei Bambini Moldova director Stela Vasluian said the work on the Adoption Law started in 2005. Among the most important changes to the adoption procedure included in the new law are the designation of the competent authorities and definition of their role in the adoption process, obligatory assessment of the adopter and the necessity of obtaining the adoptive parents’ certificate, introduction of the status of adopted child. There will be also compiled the State Register on Children Put up for Adoption and Adopters. The Alliance called on all the interested nongovernmental organizations to join this working group. Founded on March 5, 2002, the Alliance of Active NGOs in Social Protection of Child and Family brings together 123 national and local NGOs that defend the rights of the child.