📋 Tender Overview
Project sponsor: Hilfswerk International GmbH
Country: Developing countries, unspecified Funding amount: € 1,140,240.00 Start: 01.01.2024 End: 31.12.2026
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
project goal
Sustainable establishment of professional and high-quality mobile care and support as well as gender-sensitive offers for healthy ageing in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Georgia.
expected results
The service providers ("Houses of Support") in both countries have the organizational and technical prerequisites and qualified workforce to offer quality-oriented mobile care; Mobile care services for socially disadvantaged people are financed by the social systems of both countries; Gender and culturally sensitive offers for healthy ageing are recognized and promoted by governmental and non-governmental actors in both countries as relevant support services to enable older people to lead healthy, active and self-determined lives; The needs and rights of older people are more visible on the public/institutional agenda and in the public eye.
target group
In total, the programme reaches at least: 160 older people (at least 60% female) cared for by mobile services (focus on socially vulnerable older people), 150 people benefiting from gender-specific activities for healthy ageing (at least 45% of the other gender), 90 caregivers (current Houses of Support staff and newly trained staff; at least 5% male), 20 staff of the Centres for Healthy Ageing (at least 5% male), 180 employees of regional/cantonal/municipal authorities and staff of the local health and social system (rural doctors/nurses/social workers), 50 NGOs working on the issues of older people.
Measures
The activities include: technical and institutional strengthening of the Houses of Support and local nursing staff (digitalization of the nursing process, professionalization of marketing activities, financial and quality management, training of nursing staff); ensuring the financing of mobile care services from public and private sources (lobbying for improvements in laws, government programs and/or standards for mobile care as well as financing mechanisms for socially vulnerable older people, expanding mobile care services to new communities/regions, intensifying diaspora marketing); promoting and offering gender-sensitive activities in the field of healthy ageing (study on gender-sensitive aspects of ageing and implementation of practical recommendations in 3 Healthy Ageing centers, obtaining alternative financing options for the centers, initiating national and international networks and exchanges between NGOs active in the field of healthy ageing); lobbying for the rights of older people among stakeholders and general awareness-raising (contribution to the revision/updating of strategies and national legislation); Awareness-raising activities/stakeholder events for the International Day of Older Persons in both countries (training, study visits, knowledge management including a common online
