To do this, GWP Moldova organised field trips, and consultations and seminars for schools, forest departments, institutes and NGOs. These opportunities for people to talk face-to-face away from rigid bureaucratic planning processes fostered a much better understanding of how water issues and urban development are connected. As a result, water management strategies are firmly anchored in the city urban plan.
Stakeholders adopted urban action plan in Moldova
The Chisinau city action plan, formally adopted in December 2010, involved multi-faceted consultations between urban planners, water authorities, transport agencies, monitoring institutes, universities, and other important stakeholders, all with their own interests and technical vocabularies. As a neutral facilitator, GWP Moldova helped this diverse set of stakeholders realize that good water management is important for all.