The Pompidou Group and the Department of Penitentiary Institutions of the Republic of Moldova, represented by Ms Ana Dabija, signed on 29 May 2015 a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the aim of consolidating effective co-operation in the implementation of the project “Establishing Therapeutic Communities in Prisons”, which is part of the regional project “Criminal Justice Responses to Drug Dependent Prisoners” in the CoE/EU Eastern Partnership Programmatic Co-operation Framework (PCF).

Together with the Norwegian NGO Phoenix Haga, the Pompidou Group will support the Moldovan partners to develop two therapeutic communities by 2017, one in a female prison (Rusca) and one in a male prison (Pruncul). Therapeutic communities are an effective tool for treating drug addiction,  complementing other health and social services for drug dependent prisoners.