| Back I’m not on the take, I work for the salary- Improvement capacity of CSOs, institutions and local self-government to fight corruption in health sector | |
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| Official title of the project | I’m not on the take, I work for the salary- Improvement capacity of CSOs, institutions and local self-government to fight corruption in health sector |
| Website | www.neprimammito.srbijaupokretu.org / |
| Region/City | Belgrade |
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| Budget / EC contribution | 130,246.00 € |
| Implementation period | 01 June 2010 - 01 June 2011 |
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| Beneficiary | General public - direct users of health service |
| Partners | Foundation Helthy Progress , Netherlands |
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Summary of the project (up to 1500 characters) |
Corruption in the health sector has a direct negative effect on access and quality of patient care. Project “I’m not on the take, I work for the salary” is dealing with the question of corruption in health care sector. Perception of citizens that nothing can be done about it is directly related to absence of dialog between citizens and institutions in formulating and implementing anti-corruption measures. Towns Subotica, Zrenjanin, Zajecar, Uzice and Vranje were selected based on number of direct beneficiaries using health services in these areas of Serbia. This project will target representatives and members of Local self-governments/Health committees, Local branches of Health Insurance Fund, Health care institutions (patient rights defenders, doctors and management), CSOs dealing with health and human rights, General public (direct beneficiaries of health services). By providing training to all the relevant target groups this project will foster implementation of existing anti-corruption measures and initiate adoption of new ways to address this issues. The training will be based on methodology adopted and used in different countries of European Union and worldwide by organizing workshops for representatives of local self-governments and health institutions and trainings for CSOs in 5 cities; preparation, publishing and distribution of anti-corruption handbooks for employees in health care system and anti-corruption leaflets for citizens and organising of one day conferences with decision makers in local self-governments and health sector and CSOs representatives with de |
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Improving capacity of CSO, institutions and local self-governments to fight corruption in health sector by providing information, tools and training in accordance with EU models and good practices. Campaign consisted of two parts is also included in the project. Campaign goal is to reduce the level of corruption in the health sector by advocating for efficient implementation of the existing laws, regulations and ethical code of conduct addressing this problem. During the first part, 5 team leaders and 25 volunteers from each city, who are trained for community organising, will work on the ground by speaking with doctors. Promoting the ethical code of conduct will focus on empowering doctors who are performing their job in line with this ethical code. They need to step up, publicly declare themeselves and send strong message to all their |
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