Projects and references

Assistance to the Ministry of Health (MoH) to restructure the human resources, infrastructure and equipment in the health sector in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of health services and to optimise the use of resources. This was achieved through a) the development of a human resources plan, with clear definitions of required staff levels, skills and training requirements for the entire health sector, and b) an assessment of existing studies on the rationalisation of secondary and tertiary care hospital services in Chisinau with the identification of gaps and the development of a detailed time-based implementation strategy for each of the actions to be carried out.

The overall objectives of the programme were to: (i) encourage and accelerate the process of social and economic rehabilitation of the affected populations, and to contribute to the rehabilitation of basic public services and infrastructures, including the availability of health care, and (ii) support the re-establishment and functioning of key public Ministries.

General audit of the hospital and recommendations and proposal of actions to be carried out. Setting up of all the management instruments and tools appropriate in the different domains, including: accounting, budgetary, and tariff procedures, internal malfunctions, hospital property, administrative, financial and accounting organisation, and quality of patient care.

Evaluation of the EU's support to refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo and Serbia. This evaluation should provide findings and recommendations to assist the Enlargement Directorate General of the European Commission (DG ELARG) in the programming and implementation of future EU assistance to these countries in their support to refugees and IDPs, with a view to improving the instruments available to best respond to policy objectives, and financial assistance performance.

The main purpose of the evaluation was to generate knowledge from the results of Sida support to social sector reforms through twelve projects and programmes in the Republic of Moldova, in order to provide lessons learnt for the Moldovan ministries and authorities concerned in the planning for the future direction for the sector, and for donors and implementing agencies involved as to how to best assist the reforms. Since the Swedish support to social sector reforms was being phased out in Moldova, the evaluation provided important lessons for Sweden as to how to phase out development cooperation assistance in a responsible way, ensuring the sustainability of results.