- Women lead, participate in and benefit equally from governance systems;

- Women, especially from underrepresented groups, have income security, decent work
and economic autonomy;

- All women and girls live a life free from all forms of violence;

- Coordination for the assurance of effective operations of the UN Women office in Republic of Moldova, of financial resources, support personnel and of inter-agencies activities.

UN Women’s proposed programme for 2018-2022 is based on the results achieved, lessons learnt and recommendations made from evaluations of different projects and initiatives implemented during the SN 2014-2017 and earlier in Moldova.

The proposed programme is aligned with UN Women’s Global Strategic Plan 2018-2021, Moldova’s UNPFSD for 2018-2022, the National Strategy on Gender Equality for 2017-2021, and National Strategy on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence 2017-2021. It is also based on the latest recommendations by international human rights treaty bodies: CEDAW (2013 Concluding Observations), UPR recommendations (2016), UN Human Rights Committee (under International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (2016 Recommendations), Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disability (2017 Concluding Observations).

- More women fully participate and lead in gender responsive governance processes and
institutions, including in the security sector;

- Parliament and Government adopt and implement legislation, policies, and services that address unpaid domestic and care work and improve income security and decent work for women;

- Parliament and Government adopt and implement laws, policies and strategies to prevent
violence against women and girls and deliver quality essential services;

- The cooordination of effective operations of the UN Women office in Republic of Moldova, of financial resources, support personnel and of inter-agencies activities is assured.