The Republic of Moldova benefits from U.S. assistance mainly through the Freedom Support Act (FSA) programs which are intended for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union and administrated by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The U.S. financial and humanitarian assistance granted to Moldova up to this moment reached the amount approximately 500 mln U.S. dollars, representing 50 percent of the total foreign assistance received by Moldova.
U.S. Assistance has contributed to Moldova’s progress in strengthening its territorial integrity and security, preventing the proliferation of weapons, combating transnational crime, implementing market-based economic reforms, consolidation of civil society and democracy.
The highlight of the year 2006 was the signing ceremony of the Threshold Plan of the Republic of Moldova in the framework of the Millennium Challenge initiative aimed at strengthening the institutional capacities to prevent and fight the corruption.

In the middle of October 2006, the Millennium Challenge Corporation has published the MCC 2007 Scorecards. According to results, Moldova passed 15 of 16 indicators (as well as the two natural resource indicators), failing only on the indicator “Primary education expenditures”, thus becoming one of the strongest performers in the list of the countries. Also, Moldova has passed the corruption indicator, which in 2005 represented an obstacle to receiving full eligibility. Due to the commitment to the Millennium Challenge principles, in November 2006 the Board the Directors of the Millennium Challenge Corporation invited the Republic of Moldova to participate in a Compact-development process. In the press release (link to MCC web site) issued by the Millennium Challenge Corporation after the Board meeting, Ambassador John Danilovich, MCC’s Chief Executive Officer states in regard to Moldova and other countries selected for Compact development, “Because of their ongoing commitment to good governance as well as sound economic and social policies, our newly eligible countries demonstrate that they are, in fact, taking necessary steps to create, reinforce, and maintain a policy environment in which MCC’s aid can help them reach specific goals of poverty reduction. Compact-eligibility is the reward for pursuing good policies”.

In order to present the proposal to the MCC Board, the Government of the Republic of Moldova will be involved in the Compact development process throughout the year 2007.