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Technical assistance for the evaluation of the real cost of health care procedures and the updating of the basic prices for the reimbursement of health care services
- Start activities
- 05/09/2022
- End activities
- 24-02-2023
- Partner Institution
- National Health Insurance Institute [Institut National d'Assurance Maladie du Togo] (INAM)
- Type of Assistance
- Organisational capacity building
- Code
- 2022-05
- Description
- The National Health Insurance Institute (INAM) of Togo is a SOCIEUX+ long-standing partner. Together, strategic and organizational topics have been addressed, thus enhancing INAM’s role into the management of health insurance, particularly in view of the roll-out of the 2021 Law instituting the Universal Health Coverage (UHC). This Action focused on specific components of health insurance management such as tariffication of health procedures and the assessment of the quality/performance of health service provision covered by the insurance. Experts from Belgium and France helped updating the reimbursement prices of a sample, based on a price-setting methodology that will remain in INAM’s availability.
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Strengthening capacities of the public health insurance fund in Uzbekistan in the area of price setting
- Start activities
- 23-06-2022
- End activities
- 20-03-2023
- Partner Institution
- State Fund Health Insurance
- Type of Assistance
- Organisational capacity building
- Code
- 2022-01
- Description
- Uzbekistan State Health Insurance Fund established in December 2020 is invested with the mandate to improve the access to healthcare services and the efficiency of the sector. At the initial stage, the fund is responsible for the formulation and piloting of new public health funding schemes. The peer-to-peer cooperation with the experts from Estonia, France, Czech Republic, and Germany reinforced the capacities of the Fund to manage this process, from identification of packages of reimbursable healthcare services to proposing guidelines for the price-setting mechanism and performance-based assessment. The Fund was also supported in implementing the pilot project in one of the regions.
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Supporting integration of NEETs into labour market
- Start activities
- 15-06-2022
- End activities
- 15-05-2023
- Partner Institution
- National Agency for Employment
- Type of Assistance
- Organisational capacity building
- Code
- 2021-26
- Description
- The National Employment Agency (ANOFM), the public employment service of Moldova, seeks to provide better and more specialized support to young people who are not in education, training, or employment (NEET), a big and particularly vulnerable group far from labor and often missed by public services, who need a targeted approach and tailor-made accompaniment. As a result of the joint action of SOCIEUX+ and ANOFM first, the assessment was conducted concerning the situation in Moldova and the needs of the ANOFM to reinforce the services provided to this group of users, then some tools were proposed, with a specific focus on coordination mechanisms to ensure global comprehensive accompaniment of beneficiaries, and on operational work of job counsellors via capacity building sessions. At all stages of cooperation, EU good practices were shared by the experts from Belgium, Latvia, France, and Sweden and discussed from the point of view of their relevance for Moldova context.
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Set-up of a foster care system for minors without parental support and protection
- Start activities
- 23-05-2022
- End activities
- 24-03-2022
- Partner Institution
- Commissioner for Children's Rights
- Type of Assistance
- Institutional capacity building
- Code
- 2021-24
- Description
- In Kazakhstan, the Commissioner for Children’s is engaged into deinstitutionalization reform as a lead of a consortium of NGOs, childcare institutions, and state administration. Professional foster families are considered an alternative to institutional placement for children without parental care. Through the peer-to-peer cooperation with the experts from Croatia and the Czech Republic, a set of methodological guidelines was developed with recommendations for different stages of working with foster families, from identification and selection to continuous support and evaluation. The outputs of the action also include the training curricula for prospective foster parents elaborated on the basis of EU countries best practices and good examples from Kazakhstan organizations. Finally, the action was an occasion for the partners to discover the practical set up of alternative care and services provision for vulnerable children during a study visit to Czech Republic (Prague, Pardubice).
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Which skills development path is needed to stabilize rural population by developing the green economy?
- Start activities
- 18/04/2022
- End activities
- 09-12-2022
- Partner Institution
- Department of Continuing Professional Training (DFPC)
- Type of Assistance
- Policy development
- Code
- 2021-17
- Description
- This ambitious action, in partnership with the Department of Continuing Professional Training of the government of New Caledonia, is at the crossroads between employment of young and vulnerable persons, limiting rural exodus, climate resilience and food self-sufficiency. The goal of this action was to elaborate a need-based strategy to support agroecological value-chains, by encouraging traditional know-how and acquired skills of members of the Kanak communities and leveraging on traineeship opportunities for women and youth. Experts from Belgium and France produced a thorough diagnosis of the governance of the agroecological sector, a mapping of ongoing green economy projects in place, an action plan to promote green jobs, and a skills reference system for young rural workers to have better access to trainings in agroecology.
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Comprehensive review of Botswana's Worker's Compensation framework, to develop a national framework reform proposal
- Start activities
- 25-04-2022
- End activities
- 10-12-2022
- Partner Institution
- Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs (MLHA)
- Type of Assistance
- Legislative & regulatory framework development
- Code
- 2022-03
- Description
- The Department of OSH at Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs of Botswana was working on exploring whether and how it would be feasible to replace employer liability provisions with a system of workers’ compensation based on social insurance. As a result of the mobilization of public expertise from Germany, Italy, Spain and Slovenia in the framework of SOCIEUX+, the current national legislation and regulatory framework on workers' compensation was assessed against existing best practice and international standards and guidance and recommendations were provided for updating the current national legislation and regulatory framework, based on feasibility, technical capacity and sustainability considerations.
