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Our Team

CDA team, established 28 years ago, has grown impressive from 5 in 2021 to over 100 association members after 24 February 2022.

Meet CDA team

CDA’s network of counsellors covers all districts of the country, with representatives of the association working at refugee accommodation centres, border crossing points, UNHCR cash assistance centres and child safe place (Blue Dot).

Some of them are temporarily seconded to public institutions to help them manage services and deal with asylum and statelessness issues.

In addition to activities related to legal assistance, representation in court and before the authorities; research, monitoring studies, CDA employees are also trainers, carrying out legal training activities from a human rights perspective for groups of professionals, including primarily employees of the Border Police and the General Inspectorate for Migration, lawyers, judges, prosecutors, social workers, NGO representatives, media.

Central Office Staff

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Oleg Palii

Executive Director

Email: oleg.palii@cda.md
Tel: +373 69137160

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Svetlana Jioara

Program Director

Email: svetlana.jioara@cda.md
Tel: +373 22240899

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Olga Vacarciuc

Projects Coordinator

Email: olga.vacarciuc@cda.md
Tel: +373 60974490

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Irina Vrancean

Protection Officer

Email: irina.vrincean@cda.md
Tel: +373 69200562

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Larisa Voloșin

Protection Officer

Email: larisa.volosin@cda.md
Tel: +373 69076876

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Mihail Gangan

Protection Officer SSD

Email: mihail.gangan@cda.md
Tel: +373 69906400

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What we do

Legal Assistance

Providing free legal assistance to all refugees, asylum seekers, persons with humanitarian protection, stateless persons and persons at risk of becoming stateless, foreigners in difficulty.

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Training

Training for lawyers, judges, government staff in the context of migration, refugees and statelessness, respect for human rights.

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Monitoring

Monitoring policies, legislation, and activities of state institutions in the field of migration, asylum, statelessness, and naturalization.

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Advocacy

Advocacy activities regarding the access of refugees, asylum seekers, persons with humanitarian protection, stateless persons, and persons at risk of becoming stateless to the social protection, health and educational systems.

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Our Details

 
 

Contact number for asylum issues

+373 60 57 48 48
+373 68 82 81 80

 

Contact number for statelessness, documentation and citizenship issues

+373 69 90 64 00

 

Email

law-center@cda.md

 

Email for complaints

complaints@cda.md

 

Location

str.Vlaicu Pârcălab 8, Chișinău,
Republica Moldova, MD-2009

Oleg Palii

Executive Director

Oleg Palii has been working in CDA since 1998. Since 2017 he has been the Executive Director of the Association. He has more than 25 years of experience working in the field of asylum and as a national and international trainer on refugee and stateless rights issues. He is among the authors of several studies and publications on refugee and stateless rights.

Oleg Palii is a member of the Union of Advocates of the Republic of Moldova and in 2012-2014 he was a member of the Commission for Citizenship and Political Asylum of the President of the Republic of Moldova. From 2013 to 2018 he created and coordinated the “Legal Clinic on Asylum and Statelessness”.

Oleg Palii has submitted several proposals for the improvement of legislation in the field of asylum, statelessness and citizenship, and, through subjects with the right to refer to the Constitutional Court, proposals for challenging certain provisions of the Law on Asylum and the Law on Citizenship.
Svetlana Jioara

Program Director

Svetlana Jioară is the CDA’s programme director. She has extensive experience in implementing international humanitarian and refugee aid programmes, establishing and maintaining relations with international organizations, donors and national authorities, as well as producing high-quality analytical studies and reports.

Svetlana Jioară worked for over 8 years at the UN Refugee Agency in Moldova, during which time she contributed to increasing the implementation rate of projects, facilitated access of many refugees to banking services and housing, represented UNHCR in UN working groups on gender, social protection, access to education and health system, carried out many other activities aimed at increasing the effectiveness of projects implemented by UNHCR Moldova.

Svetlana Jioară studied at the State University of Moldova and holds two master’s degrees – in public law and in political science and governance.

She is fluent in Romanian and Russian and has advanced (C2) knowledge of English.
Olga Vacarciuc

Projects Coordinator

Olga Vacarciuc is project coordinator at CDA. She oversees implementation of ongoing projects at CDA, focused on the development of training programs and their organization for professionals working in the field of promotion and protection of the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, stateless persons, foreigners.

She has a degree in law, a degree in Romanian philology and a master’s degree in management. Olga Vacarciuc is one of the few human rights experts in the Republic of Moldova to have attended the Higher Course for Human Rights, organized by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in Warsaw, Poland.

Olga Vacarciuc has worked for over 17 years at the Office of the People’s Advocate – 12 years as an advisor to the Parliamentary Advocate and 5 years as Secretary General of the Office of the People’s Advocate. Later she was also the Head of the Complaints Department at the Equality Council.
She is the author of several publications, studies and training programs on human rights, including the “Handbook in the field of human rights for civil servants “, Civic education, curriculum for grades V-IX and X-XII; Guide for civil servants in the field of human rights.

Olga Vacarciuc has been a member of several working groups at central authorities level, including on the humanization of criminal policy; on strengthening the compensation mechanism for victims of inhuman and degrading treatment; of the Coordination Committee responsible for the implementation of the funding agreement between the Government of the Republic of Moldova and the EU on the support program for justice reform; member of the Working Group for monitoring the implementation of the Justice Sector Reform Strategy; member of the working groups for the elaboration of PNADO 2009-2012 and PNADO 2018-2022.
Olga Vacarciuc is fluent in Romanian, her mother tongue, and Russian. She speaks English at beginner level (A2) and French at intermediate level (B2).

Irina Vrancean

Protection Officer

Irina Vrancean graduated from the State University of Moldova, Faculty of Law, majoring in economic law, and obtained a master’s degree in civil law at the same  education institution.

She has more than 10 years of professional experience as a senior lawyer, judicial assistant, legal consultant at several companies, as well as in the Centru Court, Chisinau municipality. 

From 28.01.22-28.01.24 Irina Vrancean has been working as a trainee advocate.

She has been working at CDA since March 2022, initially as a legal advisor responsible for a refugee placement centre in Chisinau municipality and currently she is a member of the central staff of the association and CDA legal advisor for child protection.

Raisa Moroza

Protection Officer

Raisa Morozan is an advocate, protection officer at the CDA and coordinates the activity of the organization’s legal advisors, who work in several districts of the country. She is also one of the trainers of the organization.

Raisa Morozan studied at the USM, Faculty of Law, and obtained a Master’s degree in civil judicial procedures at the same education institution.

Raisa Morozan is a member of the CDA team since July 2022, previously working as a trainee lawyer and legal consultant, she was an advisor in the Cabinet of the Minister of Justice.
Raisa Morozan is a member of the Moldovan Young Lawyers Association and LEAD Moldova community – a community of young lawyers, judges, prosecutors and other legal specialists who interface with the analogous community in Romania – LFJ.

Raisa Morozan is fluent in Romanian, which is her mother tongue, has an advanced knowledge of Russian and is at A2 level in English.

Larisa Voloșin

Protection Officer

Larisa Volosin joined the CDA team in March 2022, working as legal advisor. She is protection officer at CDA and coordinates the work of the organization’s legal advisors in Chisinau municipality and some districts of the country.

She holds a degree in law (USM) and a master’s degree in civil law from ULIM.

She started her professional activity at the Prosecutor General’s Office. For 10 years she worked in the Ministry of Justice, among the positions she held was the head of the Section for the registration of normative acts and editorial works within the Department for the systematization of legislation and the elaboration of draft laws. Larisa Volosin has been working as an advocate since 2002.

Mihail Gangan

Protection Officer SSD

Mihail Gangan is a protection officer on statelessness procedure. He provides legal advice and legal assistance to undocumented persons, stateless persons and persons with undetermined legal status.

Mihail Gangan obtained his law degree from the University of European Studies of Moldova and has taken several courses in management. He applied his managerial skills in practice at ATD Technologies.

Mihail Gangan has been working at CDA since 2022, for a period – as a legal advisor at a refugee placement centre in Chisinau municipality. He holds a license of advocate.

Mihail Gangan is fluent in Romanian (mother tongue), has advanced knowledge of Russian, intermediate knowledge of English, and basic knowledge of German.

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