Empowering healthcare NGOs

Lithuania (LT)

Project facts

Project promoter:
Institute of Life Sciences and Educology(LT)
Project Number:
LT-ACTIVECITIZENS-0087
Status:
In implementation
Initial project cost:
€61,236
Other Project Partners
Lithuanian Hemophilia Association(LT)
Lithuanian Medical Movement(LT)
Santaras Clinic Doctor''s Trade Union(LT)
Programme:
Civil Society

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Description

In 2019, the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the State Audit Officecriticizedcised the state of Lithuania''s health system and highlighted the need for reform. At the end of 2021, the Ministry of Health started working on a health system reform. One of the purposes of the reform - increase social and civic engagement, participation in voluntary and community activities, and mutual trust, public social responsibility – strengthening CSOs, improving the environment for NGOs to operate, and providing opportunities for public engagement and active participation in addressing issues of public concern in the areas of health care and access to social services.

GMEI, together with project partners, highlights the following issues:

  1. Lack of trust in health system public institutions by health system NGOs and patients and lack of health system public institutions oversight;
  2. Health NGOs do not have effective, legally based guidelines and a common strategy for working with health system public institutions on issues of concern to the Lithuanian health system and patients.

The project addresses the following target groups: health system NGOs and patients.

To address the problems identified, GMEI, together with project partners, will carry out the following activities:

  1. Propose new legal instruments, thereby increasing the effectiveness and transparency of cooperation between health system public institutions, NGOs and patients;
  2. Encourage closer cooperation between health NGOs and health system public institutions;
  3. Empower target groups through the organization and provision of legal aid, education and training;
  4. Introduce a cross-sectoral cooperation strategy based on effective and legally-backed cooperation;
  5. Educate the medical community, patients and the general public using a variety of outreach methods.

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