📋 Tender Overview
Project sponsor: Hilfewerk International GmbH
Country: Developing countries, unspecified Funding amount: € 1,140,240.00 Start: January 1st, 2024 End: December 31, 2026
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
project goal
Sustainable anchoring of professional and high-quality mobile care and support as well as gender-sensitive offers for healthy aging in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Georgia.
expected results
The service providers ("Houses of Support") in both countries have the organizational and technical requirements as well as qualified workers 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 offerings for healthy aging are recognized and promoted by governmental and non-governmental actors in both countries as relevant support services to enable older people to lead a healthy, active and self-determined life; The needs and rights of older people are more visible on the public/institutional agenda and in the public eye.
target group
Overall, in both countries the program reaches at least: 160 older people (at least 60% female) served by mobile services (focus on socially vulnerable older people), 150 people who benefit from gender-specific activities for healthy aging (min. 45 % of the opposite gender); 90 nursing staff (current employees of the Houses of Support and newly trained staff; at least 5% male), 20 employees of the Centers for Healthy Aging (at least 5% male), 180 employees of regional/cantonal/local authorities as well Staff from the local health and social system (rural doctors/nurses/social workers), 50 NGOs working on issues affecting older people.
Measures
The activities include: technical and institutional strengthening of the Houses of Support and the local nursing staff (digitalization of the nursing process, professionalization of marketing activities, financial and quality management, training of nursing staff); Ensuring funding for mobile care services from public and private sources (lobbying for improvements to laws, government programs and/or standards for mobile care and financing mechanisms for socially vulnerable older people, expanding mobile care offerings to new communities/regions, intensifying diaspora marketing); Promoting and offering gender-sensitive activities in the field of healthy aging (study on gender-sensitive aspects of aging and implementation of practical recommendations in 3 Healthy Aging centers, attracting alternative financing options for the centers, initiating national and international networks and exchange between NGOs working in... are active in the area of ??healthy aging); Lobbying for the rights of older people among stakeholders and general awareness raising (contributing to the revision/updating of policies and national legislation); Awareness-raising measures/stakeholder events for the International Day of Older People in both countries (training, study visits,
