Actions in Rehabilitation

  • Enhanced institutional capacities for providing functional rehabilitation services for signatories of the peace agreement, their families and caregivers in the reincorporation process

    America Colombia
    Start activities
    20/10/2025
    End activities
    28/05/2026
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Health and Social Protection
    Type of Assistance
    Capacity building
    Code
    2025-22
    Description
    The Ministry of Health and Social Protection is Colombia's top health authority, responsible for designing and overseeing the national health system and guaranteeing the right to health for all residents. It has prioritised the National Policy for Social and Economic Reintegration, including a differentiated approach for people with disabilities, reinforced by Decree 0846 of 2024, which calls for stronger rehabilitation services and the removal of access barriers. The Ministry has already strengthened 14 State Social Enterprises to meet certification standards for disability and functional rehabilitation, but ensuring continuity of services remains critical to prevent health complications, higher costs, and loss of autonomy. The Action supported the Ministry by identifying barriers to care with a gender and intersectional focus, designing a Strategic Functional Rehabilitation Pathway, and establishing a formal agreement to regulate rehabilitation services across the 14 State hospitals. It brought together fieldwork, stakeholder consultations, and capacity-building activities that converged on a shared diagnosis: the system has the necessary tools but lacks coordination. The resulting roadmap focused on service delivery, human resources, inter-institutional coordination, financial sustainability, and addressing gender barriers. The Action also strengthened awareness of human rights, promoted a bio-psycho-social approach aligned with the ICF, and supported empowerment, integrated information systems, telemedicine, and public-private partnerships to ensure sustainable, inclusive rehabilitation for signatories in reintegration.

  • Cost-benefit analysis of options for the provision of rehabilitation services

    SOUTHERN AFRICA Tanzania, United Republic of
    Start activities
    20-03-2023
    End activities
    31-08-2023
    Partner Institution
    Workers Compensation Fund (WCF)
    Type of Assistance
    Sectoral planning & budgeting
    Code
    2022-32
    Description
    In order to expand its offer of services for victims of accidents at work and occupational diseases, the Workers Compensation Fund of Tanzania (WCF) together with the experts from France, Italy and the Netherlands mobilized by SOCIEUX+ worked on identification of the best option of the rehabilitation services provision. As a result of the action, a cost-benefit analysis of different options was conducted, providing the necessary elements to finalize the WCF’s rehabilitation strategy.

  • Technical support on rehabilitation services and capacity building

    Southern Africa Tanzania, United Republic of
    Start activities
    01/09/2020
    End activities
    09/04/2021
    Partner Institution
    Workers Compensation Fund (WCF)
    Type of Assistance
    Policy development
    Code
    2019-35
    Description
    The Workers Compensation Fund (WCF) of Tanzania asked SOCIEUX+ to help looking into its own rehabilitation strategy, in the perspective of addressing gaps and plan improvements thanks to inspirational exchanges with EU peer experts. Experts from Germany (the German Association of Accident Insurance – DGUV) and Lithuania first overviewed the existing WCF’s rehabilitation strategies, then provided technical advice for its improvement; they particularly stressed the importance to conceive rehabilitation work in relation to the three distinct dimensions physical, social, and vocational rehabilitation, all important for allowing injured works to go back to active professional life.

  • Supporting vocational rehabilitation of persons living with disabilities

    Eastern Europe Moldova, Republic of
    Start activities
    feb-2015
    End activities
    feb-2015
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Familiy
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2014-13
    Description
    The Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Family (MLSPF) is the national authority having overall responsibility for the development, promotion and implementation of social protection for people with disabilities. MLSPF plays a directing role in implementing the Social Inclusion Strategy for Persons with Disabilities (2010-2013) approved by law in 2010. Among one of the first steps taken by the Ministry for the implementation of the Strategy was the plan for the creation of a small department in charge of services for vocational rehabilitation of persons with severe disabilities within the Republican Experimental Prosthetic, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Centre (CREPOR). Knowledge from the provision of such services in the EU and focusing on the practical organisation and implementation of these by the CREPOR. A study visit to in Ireland was organised for senior staff of various Moldovan institutions in charge of rehabilitation services. Within a second activity, a general training needs assessment of the newly created vocational rehabilitation department was conducted with the support of a EU peers. This was the occasion to identify the needs and challenges in the provision of such services and the specific training needs of the CREPOR.