This report covers main achievements of UNDP Moldova and its partners during 2025. UNDP’s engagement throughout the year focused on supporting national institutions to moving forward the SDGs and EU-aligned policymaking, strengthening results-based measurement of progress, and reinforcing integrated development solutions through improved cross-government coordination. This contributed to more resilient public systems and steady progress towards the SDGs, helping authorities prioritize reforms, improve implementation sequencing, and track progress against EU accession commitments more consistently across sectors.

In democratic governance, UNDP’s electoral assistance programme and broader governance portfolio played a central role in safeguarding institutional integrity during the 2025 parliamentary elections. This strengthened the transparency, security, accessibility, and inclusiveness of democratic processes, while reinforcing public trust and institutional cooperation during a politically sensitive period. 

Across governance, energy, climate, and economic systems, UNDP advanced gender equality by strengthening women’s participation, skills, and access to resources. Targeted interventions supported women’s leadership in green governance, digitalization, IT, and entrepreneurship. 

Taken together, UNDP’s portfolio in 2025 contributed to consolidating reforms, protecting vulnerable groups, and laying the institutional, digital, and analytical foundations required for the next phase of reform implementation and future growth investments absorption, so that combined they deliver on the country’s poverty reduction gains. 

Within this context, UNDP accelerated Moldova’s green and resilient development agenda by strengthening energy security, climate resilience, and environmental governance. Support focused on expanding renewable energy communities in rural areas, establishing partnerships with privately operated companies to introduce smart metering and climate-resilient planning, and strengthening the foundations for more efficient energy use and better demand management. These efforts helped ensure that the green transition delivers tangible social, economic, and environmental benefits, particularly for those most exposed to energy and climate risks.

The results presented in this report were made possible thanks to close collaboration with over 330 central and local institutions, agencies, civil society organizations, and private sector partners over 2025.