Anti-Corruption Alliance is confident Moldova will manage to meet deadlines in Threshold Country Program

Secretary of the Anti-Corruption Alliance Mircea Esanu is confident Moldova will manage to implement in due time the actions from the Threshold Country Plan (TCP) of the Millennium Challenge Program of the US Government. Thus, the Government will be entitled to $300 million from the US Government. The money will come after the 2009 elections most probably, Mircea Esanu is quoted by Info-Prim Neo as saying. According to the NGO official, the Americans are rather pleased with the Moldovan authorities implementing the actions from the TCP, and Moldova is in the group of the countries that can benefit of the funds from the Millennium Challenge Corporation. “Although there are delays in executing the TCP, they are objective. The plan meets its deadlines, in general. USAID has okayed the prolongation of the terms with 6 months concerning the judiciary, the tax inspectorate, and the healthcare system,” Esanu specified. He gives as successes the development of the healthcare procurement guide, the clinical protocols, the one stop shop in customs, etc. However, Esanu says, there are certain risks, too “The web sites of hospitals are late in appearing, as some patients could register there for being received by doctors. The cases are not distributed aleatorily in courts. The customs system needs to have a new transit trans-border system,” he said. After the implementation of the TCP, the Moldovan authorities hope to sign the program with Millennium Challenge Corporation in the first half of 2009 with the US Government. As many as $300 million may be allocated for infrastructure projects, as the actions in the TCP are to last till next February.