According to the Internal Regulation of the National Bank of Moldova (NBM) on the process of management and coordination of external technical assistance provided to the National Bank of Moldova by external development partners, which has been approved by the Decision of the Executive Board of the National Bank of Moldova No. 11 of January 24, 2020, external technical assistance involves the transfer of knowledge and assets, including technologies, methodologies and techniques, to the NBM from or with the support of external development partners in various fields in order to achieve the mission, basic attributions, strategic objectives of the NBM, for the purpose of overcoming critical situations, the fulfillment of tasks assigned to the NBM within the various national documents for the country's social and economic development or for the performance of any other attribution of the NBM established by law.
According to the mentioned Regulation, external technical assistance can be provided through the organization of seminars/workshops, study visits, expert missions to the National Bank of Moldova, etc. At the same time, the provided assistance can be of several types: bilateral technical assistance, technical assistance provided as a result of the commitments established at the intergovernmental level, technical assistance provided through the donor’ instruments and projects.
During the last years, the National Bank of Moldova has received technical assistance from the European Union, international financial institutions, foreign central banks and other development partners. The areas of technical assistance correspond to the priorities and strategic development objectives of the NBM which have been established for the medium and long term.
External technical assistance offered or received by the NBM through projects and programs negotiated at the governmental level is regulated by the provisions of the Government Decision no. 377 of April 25, 2018 on the regulation of the institutional framework and the coordination and management mechanism of external assistance.
The list of external technical assistance projects received by the NBM starting from 2023 can be accessed here [1].
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Technical assistance provided by the European Union [2]
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Technical assistance provided by international organizations [3]
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Technical support provided by other external partners [4]
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External technical assistance offered by NBM to other central banks and foreign authorities [5]