The Public Association Regional Center of Sustainable Development (PA RCSD) is a non-governmental organization founded in 2001: it promotes European values, contributes to increasing and strengthening the capacity of local public authorities, civil society, the business environment and facilitating the process of citizens’ involvement in the policies of sustainable local and regional development to improve the life quality of the communities.
The organization’s strategic areas of activity are: sustainable local and regional development, civil society and volunteer development, promotion of European values.
PA RCSD organizes and carries out a wide spectrum of activities aimed at training and developing the capacities of community actors in terms of participatory strategic planning, elaboration, implementation and monitoring of sustainable development strategies; promoting and supporting the joint efforts of local public authorities, civil society, the business environment and public institutions in the process of implementing sustainable development strategies; information and documentation, training and instruction, analysis and expertise of strategic documents, planning and involvement, assistance and consultation of community actors; providing informative and methodological support for the development of the business sector; promoting and encouraging the development of the non-governmental sector at the local and regional level etc.
PA RCSD has the experience of providing the following services:
During the activity period PA RCSD created a series of mechanisms and functional structures for sustainable development: Local Agenda School 21 Ungheni Sustainable Development Strategy of Each Locality in the Third Millennium); School of Young Volunteers XXI; Alliance of Active NGOs for Sustainable Development PRO Local Agenda 21 Ungheni; Integrated Action Group for Local Economic Development; Local Coalitions and Boards of Directors in the high schools in the city of Ungheni and neighboring towns, Local Initiative Groups in 7 neighborhoods of Ungheni City etc.
The target groups of PA RCSD are local public authorities level I and II, non-governmental organizations, civic initiative groups, public institutions, school and preschool education institutions, libraries, economic agents. PA RCSD has extensive experience in project implementation. Between 2001 and 2022, PA RCSD implemented around 50 projects in various fields: capacity development of community actors and active citizenship (Local Agenda 21 Sustainable Development Strategy Local Agenda 21 Ungheni, UNDP, 2000; The educational strategy of the municipality of Ungheni SOROS, 2000; Consolidation of Local Public Administration II, UNDP, 2000-2001; Consolidation of Regional Public Administration, TACIS, 2000-2002; Local Agenda 21 Moldova, UNDP, 2001-2006; Women Can Succeed I and II, OSCE in Moldova, CIDA 2002-2003; Women Can Succeed. Local actions, DA Norway 2006; Electoral campaign management, IRI/USA, 2006; Consolidation of Civil Society, TACIS, 2007); economic development and entrepreneurship (Regional Initiative for Women Empowerment in Business (REIW), US State Department of Labor, 2002-2003; New Perspectives for Young Entrepreneurs, World Bank, 2004; Partnership for the Sustainable Development of Cross-Border Entrepreneurial Cooperation Ungheni Republic Moldova–Iaşi Romania, GTZ, 2006; Investment opportunities in Ungheni, UNDP, 2006; Investor’s Guide in the cross-border area, GTZ, 2006; Traditional Products in the cross-border area, GTZ, 2007); tourism (An integrated approach to the sustainability of tourism production, CIUDAD/ EU, 2010–2012; Sustainable actions for economic growth through tourism, ENI/2021/170157-1/5, Program Mayors for Economic Growth – Pilot Projects, 2022 – 2023 ); environmental protection (Introduction of proactive waste management practices in selected cities of Georgia, Moldova and Armenia, POC Black Sea Basin 2007-2013 (2013-2015); Together for adaptation to climate change, Embassy of Lithuania in the Republic of Moldova (2017); Collection selective collection of waste electrical, electronic equipment (WEEE) in Ungheni City, SlovakAid, 2017); infrastructure (Civic involvement for the improvement of living conditions in the municipality of Ungheni, co-financed by the Polish development cooperation program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland within the “Small Grants Fund” Program, managed by the Solidarity Fund of Poland in Moldova, 2018 ; Healthy way of life ensured by a modern cross-border sports infrastructure, EaPTC, 2017–2019; Ungheni for the development of sustainable urban mobility – AGREED ALDA /EU, 2020; Efficiency of public infrastructure in Ungheni Vale neighborhood, co-financed by the Polish development cooperation program of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland within the “Small Grants Fund” Program, managed by the Solidarity
Fund of Poland in Moldova, co-financed by the Global Environment Facility/GEF SGP, 2021-2022). PA RCSD actively participates in the implementation of local and regional sustainable development programs and projects, developing viable partnerships and various cooperations at the local, regional and cross-border level: it has signed cooperation agreements with local public authorities, private companies and NGOs in the country and abroad.