Health emergency service preparedness and response
Albania is vulnerable to earthquakes, floods, forest fires and landslides. Recent natural disasters and the pandemic have highlighted the importance of ensuring access to health and human services for everyone living in Albania. There are systemic problems that have affected the health system in Albania for decades, and in particular its weaknesses in health emergency preparedness and response, which were very much exposed during the pandemic. The project team supported the establishment to improve the quality emergency care services, managed by a more resilient health emergency system at all levels, and access to these services for all people living in Albania, including the most vulnerable.
The project team worked on three main outputs to achieve the overall objective:
- Public health actors engage in effective and efficient health emergency preparedness and response, including PHC.
- Strengthened emergency health services, particularly PHC, serving people throughout the country.
- Citizens and civil society organizations taking an active role and contributing to a constructive dialogue with the GoA to improve the countrys resilience to public health emergencies.
The objective of the inception phase was to develop a comprehensive project document (ProDoc) for Phase I, including a logframe. The process to achieve this was based on participatory project development with key stakeholders, data collection and analysis for evidence-based intervention design, and consultation and reflection with national and international experts on the outcome areas to be addressed.
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