The report under consideration analyzes the role of civil society and private sector in the Republic of Moldova for achieving Millennium Development Goal 4 – Reduce child mortality. The analysis was done based on legislation in force and on a survey conducted to this end among civil society and private sector representatives, as well as among governmental institutions and development partners.
The first chapters of the report show the general trends in achieving the targets of MDG 4 by Government of the Republic of Moldova, identify the problems and make their diagnosis. In this context, it is worth being mentioned that the Republic of Moldova promotes a policy of health  care system modernization and its adjustment to European standards and, in the same time, makes sustainable endeavours to ensure to a full extent the inherent child rights to life, survival and development in accordance with the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in force since 25.02.1993. Infant mortality rate and the mortality rate among under-five children, in particular, are decreasing each year, while the targets of both indicators for 2015 have already
been achieved.
Nevertheless, despite such progress and positive prospects, the level of child mortality in the Republic of Moldova is still higher than in most European countries. The survey pointed out that the progress done by the Republic of Moldova in terms of reducing child mortality is due to implementation by the Government, with the support of the country’s development partners, of various health care programmes, such as: regionalization of perinatal care, setting up a national system for monitoring of perinatal care and implementation of in-vitro transportation,
and is also due to the involvement of non-governmental organizations and private sector.