Documented examples

Each record describes something a country built that the indicators do not capture. The source provides the published number; the mechanism is our interpretation.

Scores describe outcomes. These records describe how a country acted, what it needed and what happened. 742 of 742 records include a mechanism. They do not affect scores.

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Coordination

2 deliveries linked to University-industry collaboration, Public-private collaboration.

Moldovasince 2024still operatingbears on University-industry collaboration

ANCD innovation vouchers (Vouchere Inovationale) for SME research services

Moldova's National Agency for Research and Development (ANCD) financed 13 innovation voucher projects in 2025, in which small and medium firms buy research and development services from research organisations, after 28 applications to the 2025-2026 call yielded 10 funded projects and four funded projects were stopped when the firms declined to sign contracts.

13 projects, innovation voucher projects financed in the year (10 from the 2025-2026 call plus continuing 2024-2025 projects, less those stopped), 2025. 28 proposals, proposals submitted to the 2025-2026 innovation voucher call, 2025. Agentia Nationala pentru Cercetare si Dezvoltare (ANCD), Raport anual ANCD pentru anul 2025, section 1.4 Proiecte de Inovare si Transfer Tehnologic, retrieved 2026-10-02.

The move, and what it needed

The national research agency gives small firms a voucher that pays a public research organisation to do a defined R&D or testing job for them, with the firm co-financing a share.

Preconditions

A research funding agency able to contract firms as well as research institutes
Research organisations with services firms are willing to buy
Firms willing to sign a state contract and co-finance, which four 2025 winners were not

Limits: The agency reports on itself, on pages 28 and 29 of a 137-page PDF. The arithmetic in the report does not close on its face: 10 new projects plus 7 continuing ones is 17, and the report also says four projects were stopped when three firms refused to sign financing contracts, and states the total of 13 without showing the subtraction. The volume is very small: 1,073.0 thousand lei of state money and 153.4 thousand lei of firm co-financing in 2025, roughly 60,000 euros, and the same report counts five technology transfer projects approved in 2025 under a separate call, not added here. The 2024 report gives seven voucher projects funded in 2024, so the instrument is two years old and its scale is pilot-like even if national in reach. Counts are projects financed, not completed or commercialised. The started year is the first funded call read in the 2024 report, not a programme launch date.

Moldovasince 2013dismantledbears on Public-private collaboration

Chisinau International Airport concession, and its rescission in 2020

Moldova's Public Property Agency concessioned the assets of Chisinau International Airport and its land to Avia Invest under contract 4/03 of 30 August 2013, with investment obligations of EUR 244 million over the life of the concession, and in 2020 notified the concessionaire that the contract was rescinded for failing to post the performance guarantee, while Avia Invest claimed EUR 900 million from the state at arbitration in Stockholm.

244 million EUR, total investment the concessionaire was to make over the life of the concession, 2013-08-30. 900 million EUR, damages avia invest claimed from the state at arbitration in stockholm, 2020-07-22. Agentia Proprietatii Publice (Public Property Agency of Moldova), 'Comunicat: unele detalieri privind rezolutiunea Contractului de concesiune a activelor aflate in gestiunea I.S. Aeroportul International Chisinau si a terenului aferent, nr. 4/03 din 30 august 2013', 22 July 2020 (Internet Archive copy of 21 September 2021), retrieved 2026-10-02.

The move, and what it needed

The state property agency handed the airport's assets and land to a private concessionaire for investment and operation in exchange for fees and investment obligations, then used the contract's performance-guarantee clause to terminate it once a new government contested the deal.

Preconditions

A concession law and a state property agency with authority to award and terminate concessions
A contract with enforceable performance-guarantee clauses, which is what made the rescission possible
Political continuity, which failed here: the concession did not survive a change of government

Where else it has been used: An airport is often a small state's first large concession; Moldova's shows how a concession awarded without broad political cover can be unwound by the next government and end in arbitration.

Limits: The source is one party to a dispute stating its case: the agency wrote the communique to answer press coverage, and the EUR 900 million is the concessionaire's claim as the agency reports it, not an award. The live page now returns 404 on app.gov.md and the record cites the Internet Archive copy. The EUR 244 million is a contractual obligation over the whole concession, not an amount invested; the communique gives no figure for what Avia Invest actually invested in 2013 to 2020, so the record shows the partnership's scale on paper and its end, not its delivery. The communique shows a rescission notice that the concessionaire contested, not the end of its operation: no official page opened shows when the airport returned to the state, and secondary sources (not used as evidence) date the final annulment to a Chisinau Court of Appeal ruling of November 2022. The state enterprise I.S. Aeroportul International Chisinau that appears in the agency's procurement notices held the conceded assets throughout the concession, so its presence does not by itself show a return of operations. The outcome of the arbitration is not covered. The concession was the country's flagship infrastructure PPP: the agency's own list of PPP contracts it signed (archived April 2021) showed a single other contract, for bus stations, signed on 19 December 2018, so Moldova's national PPP portfolio was thin before and after this rescission.

Learning

1 delivery linked to Adult learning participation.

Moldovasince 2025still operatingbears on Adult learning participation

ANOFM voucher-based vocational training for the unemployed

Moldova's National Employment Agency (ANOFM) enrolled 1,751 registered unemployed people, 1,223 of them women, in voucher-based vocational training courses between January and August 2026, and 952 unemployed people graduated from voucher courses in the same months, some of them enrolled in 2025.

1,751 people, unemployed people enrolled in voucher-based vocational training courses since the start of the year (row 16, art. 32), January to August 2026. 952 people, unemployed people who graduated from voucher-based courses since the start of the year, including those enrolled in 2025 (row 17), January to August 2026. Agentia Nationala pentru Ocuparea Fortei de Munca (ANOFM), Raport statistic august 2026 (monthly statistical report), retrieved 2026-10-02.

The move, and what it needed

The employment agency gives registered unemployed people a training voucher redeemable with an approved provider through an online platform, and reports enrolments and graduates monthly.

Preconditions

A register of approved vocational training providers in the regions
An online voucher platform linked to the unemployment register
A state budget line for active measures under the employment law

Limits: The agency reports on itself, in a monthly statistical PDF (rows 15 to 18); the figures are year-to-date for eight months, not a full year, and no December 2025 report was found at an open URL, so no full-year or prior-year comparison is made. The agency's 2025 activity report is a one-page scan with no text. Separately, 95 unemployed people enrolled in workplace training (art. 33) over the same months, not added. The scale is small: about 1,750 enrolments in eight months in a country of about 2.4 million, limited to the registered unemployed (6,010 at the start of August), so it says nothing about adults in work. The 2025 start is the date of the agency's launch event for its voucher platform for training the unemployed (17 April 2025, on the agency site); training of the unemployed under the employment law existed before vouchers, and that earlier delivery is not counted.

Adaptability

1 delivery linked to Disaster preparedness and recovery.

Moldovasince 2010delivered and closedbears on Disaster preparedness and recovery

State Hydrometeorological Service severe weather warning upgrade

Moldova's State Hydrometeorological Service, with the emergency situations department, installed a Doppler radar by June 2014 and extended the lead time of severe weather warnings from 10 minutes to 1 hour at baseline to 3 to 6 hours by 2016, against an original target of 12 hours, under a project approved in August 2010 that closed in September 2016, two years late.

6 hours, lead time for severe weather warnings, upper bound achieved, 2016-09-15. 12 hours, lead time for severe weather warnings, original target, 2010-08-05. World Bank, Implementation Completion and Results Report, Moldova Disaster and Climate Risk Management Project (P115634), March 2017, retrieved 2026-10-02.

The move, and what it needed

The environment ministry's weather service bought a Doppler radar and forecasting systems and wired its warnings into the emergency department's command centre, so warnings reach responders hours rather than minutes ahead.

Preconditions

A national weather service with staff to run a radar and models
A link from the forecaster to the civil protection command centre
Budget to maintain the radar once the loan ends

Limits: The figures are the World Bank's, from a completion report on its own credit, in the PDO indicator table near the front of the document; the achieved lead time is a range (3 to 6 hours) and the record's metric takes its upper bound. The 12-hour target was formally revised down, so 'achieved' is against the lowered target. No named severe weather event is shown in which the warnings were issued and acted on, so the record documents capacity built, not capacity used; it is filed on the same terms as other warning-infrastructure records in this corpus. The report notes repeated management changes at the hydromet service, which threaten sustainability, and gives no later figure for radar uptime.

Building

1 delivery linked to Large project delivery.

Moldovasince 2016delivered and closedbears on Large project delivery

Local Roads Improvement Project, and its halved scope

Moldova's State Roads Administration upgraded 149.3 km of unpaved local roads to paved standard under a project approved in October 2015, after unit costs doubled from US$230,000 to about US$415,000 per km and contracts on 42.3 km were terminated, so a 2019 restructuring cut the target from 300 km to 150 km and the project closed in July 2023 instead of March 2021.

149.3 km, rural roads rehabilitated, 2023-07-31. 300 km, rural roads to be rehabilitated, target at appraisal, 2015-10-30. World Bank, Implementation Completion and Results Report, Moldova Local Roads Improvement Project (P150357), January 2024, retrieved 2026-10-02.

The move, and what it needed

The road administration designed for a low-cost paving technique, failed to attract bidders able to build it, then redesigned for asphalt at twice the unit cost and halved the length.

Preconditions

A contractor market able to bid on the chosen technique
Bid and performance security terms small firms can meet
Maintenance budgets matched to the pavement type chosen

Limits: The figures are the World Bank's, from a completion report on its own credit, which rated it. The 300 to 150 km cut and the unit cost doubling are in para. 54 (printed page 26), the terminated contracts on 42.3 km in para. 39 (page 21), the 149.3 km in the results table (page 16) and the dates on the datasheet. The doubling followed a switch from a cheap surface treatment that local contractors could not build to conventional asphalt, so part of the cost rise bought a more durable road. These are local roads, a programme of many small contracts rather than one major build, and the US$102.5 million project is small against Moldova's national road spending.