1. Project title: „Young persons with and without disabilities actively participate in community life and decision making”

Period of implementation: 01.09.2014 – 31.08.2017

The project aims to develop six regional initiatives, which will be active in developing their communities, particularly in the „disability” area. The project aims to meet the needs of integration of young persons with / without physical disabilities in decision making and in problem solving in their communities. At the moment, most young persons do not have options to involve in their community live. Decision-making and coordination is directly and exclusively made by Local Authorities.

Activities:

• Selection of beneficiaries
• The course of lessons for the first year of activities
• Monitoring the groups and elaboration of reports
• Organizing a course of trainings for 6 CSOs
• Organizing a roundtable in partnership with the Peace Corps
• Organizing 6 regional roundtables
• Organizing training courses in the third year of the project
• Promote and ensure continuity of regional projects
• Mini-grants program
• Organizing the course of OD, working with experts, adjusting internal regulations

Sponsor: U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), under the Moldova Partnerships for Sustainable Civil Society project implemented by FHI 360.

Total project budget for next 3 years: 390 000 MDL

2. Project Title: „Socio-economic empowerment and inclusion of young persons with disabilities into the work labour”

Period of implementation: 01.01.2015 – 31.12.2017

The project purpose is to ensure the rights of persons with disabilities to work and community life through supporting persons with disabilities and by empowering decision makers and authorities.

Activities:

• Support and assistance in employment of 200 young people with disabilities by providing services of counselling and mediation in the process of employment in partnership with specialists from the Territorial Agencies of Employment
• Providing information, counselling and professional orientation services to people with disabilities which search for job opportunities
• If necessary, organizing meetings with directors of educational institutions to promote access to education for young people with disabilities
• Organizing a common workshop with the representatives of the Ministry of Education and the State Inspection in Construction to discuss the problem of limited access to education for persons with disabilities
• Improve the beneficiaries database
• Training with the theme – ,,Fighting discrimination by empowering people with disabilities”
• Roundtable with stakeholders / rights holders / beneficiaries of the project
• Developing an internal regulation of the employment support service
• Signing of a Memorandum of collaboration between the Association „MOTIVATION” from Moldova and the National Agency of Employment for the period of years 2015 – 2017
• Informative seminars with the directors and specialists from the Territorial Agencies for Employment
• Annual evaluating meetings to summarize the results of the actions that are called to give support in employment of  people with disabilities
• Providing assistance and continue consultancies to specialists from the Employment Agencies that work in employment of persons with disabilities
• Establishing and consolidation of partnerships with economical agencies that are predisposed to provide internships and employment opportunities for people with disabilities
• Roundtable with representatives of the National and Territorial Councils for Determining Disability and Work Capacity and representatives of the National Employment Agencies
• Organizing annual promotion campaigns referred to rights and employment opportunities for people with disabilities
• Organizing an informing and training workshop for young leaders with disabilities

Sponsor: Swedish Organization for Individual Relief (SOIR Moldova).

Total project budget for next 3 years: 3 227 675 MDL

3. Project Title: „Ability hires”

Title of Project: ”Ability hires” (am luat traducerea din aplicatia in egleza)

Project implementation period: 01.07.2016 – 30.06.2017

The project purpose: To improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities of the Republic of Moldova by increasing the number of employed disabled persons.

The main activities:

• Development of partnerships with employers and potential employers of persons with disabilities (at least 4 employees);
• Identification of persons with disabilities to be employed (30 people involved);
• 3 Trainings  of required work skills of persons with disabilities (24 beneficiaries);
• Adjustment of working places, professional training locations and households of persons with disabilities
• Employment of persons with disabilities (at least 20 more persons with disabilities have a paid job).

Donor: World Jewish Relief

The total project budget for one year: £ 30,000.