Non-formal education - Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum

Moldova
– Draft Strategy of sectorial development “Education 2020”.
– National Development Strategy for 2008-2011 in the list of measures 4.3.1. to create an
educated workforce to keep competitive throughout the active life in paragraph (v) recommended
“authorization and monitoring of educational services and the assessment of competence
centers in non-formal education (including adults).”
– Law on Education, 1995, 34-35
– The concept of the development of education in the Republic of Moldova
– The concept of non-formal education, 2003
– National Strategy and Action Plan ‘Education for All’, 2004
– Memorandum of the Commission of European Council on lifelong learning, 2000
b) Social organizations (civic education, human rights, etc.)
– Law on the rights of children № .338-XIII, 1994.
– Law on Youth # 279-XIV, 1999
– National Strategy on Youth for 2009-2013, approved by Law # 25 from 03.02.2009
– Strategy for the Development of Civil Society 2012-2015, adopted by the Parliament of the
Republic of Moldova, September 27, 2012
– National Strategy of the Republic of Moldova 2012-2020
Ukraine
– Law On Education (1991)
– State program “Education” (Ukraine XXI Century) (1993)
– Declaration on the Basic Principles of Youth Policy (1993)
– The concept of distance education (2000)
– “National doctrine of education” (2002),
– Conceptual principles of adult education (Institute of pedagogical education and adult education
APSU, 2009)
Financing
In the funding of NFE three sources can be considered:
1) International donors who give money to projects implemented by NGOs in various fields, including
civic education and the formation of democratic values.
2) Business structures oriented to fast results and profits, which is why large corporations set up
their own training centers to train their employees in high-tech, knowledge of foreign languages or of
specialized courses. So, the business has no interest in non-profit projects and initiatives.
3) The public sector is focused mainly on formal education, or what is called retraining. Regarding
other areas of education, the state is actively using resources to foreign investment for projects in the
vocational sector, as it is a priority, given the weak economic and socio-political situation in the region.
Successful practices
However, in each of the countries – participants of the Eastern Partnership – can certainly be found
examples of effective action in the field of NFE.
For example, in Belarus, an important project «TOLLAS – Towards Active society at any age was
implementedwith the support of dvv international.
The project “Reform strategy in the field of vocational education and training and pilot implementation
in the selected region in Azerbaijan” funded by the European Union and implemented by the British
Council (UK), PEM GmbH (Germany) and the Technical College of Aarhus (Denmark) and has been
successfully implemented in Azerbaijan.
9