Viziunea departamentului: un sistem de justiție echitabil, accesibil și predictibil, care garantează respectarea și protecția efectivă a drepturilor fundamentale ale omului.
Misiunea departamentului este să promoveze buna guvernare în sectorul sănătății, să contribuie la sporirea accesului echitabil al populației la servicii de sănătate șI sociale care răspund nevoilor acestora, și să promoveze acțiuni responsabile pentru protecția mediului.
Proiecte implementate pe parcursul anului 2018
Grant competition
DEADLINE EXTENSION – OCTOBER 31st, 2013
Background
Legal, ethical, and human rights norms are increasingly important in delivery of quality medical care. The concept of human rights in patient care brings together the rights of both patients and health care providers and refers to the application of general human rights principles to all stakeholders in the delivery of health care. The Open Society Foundations’ (OSF) work on behalf of society’s most marginalized persons—people living with HIV or TB, people in need of palliative care, ethnic minorities, sexual or gender minorities, people who use drugs, and people with intellectual disabilities or mental health problems—has shown that health systems can too often be places of punishment, coercion, and violations of basic rights to consent and confidentiality, rather than places of treatment and care.
There is an urgent need to support legal and administrative remedies for individual and systemic human rights abuses in health care settings, and at the same time establish non-punitive mechanisms of incorporating normative principles into patient care. Law reform is necessary in some areas, and where laws which have the potential to address pervasive violations exist they must be effectively enforced. Legal and human rights practitioners are either not trained for representing victims of human rights abuses in health care or may lack knowledge of the human rights aspects of diverse statutory and regulatory provisions applicable to patients and health care providers. At the same time, doctors and other health practitioners are often unaware of their rights and legal obligations as providers and lack understanding of the human rights aspects of health care provision. At the same time, doctors and other health practitioners are often unaware of their rights and legal obligations as providers and lack understanding of the human rights aspects of health care provision. Patients, too, are frequently unaware of their rights.
To address this gap, OSF’s Law and Health Initiative, Human Rights Initiative, in partnership with Soros Foundation-Moldova, have supported the development of a series of resources, including:
The call for proposals
The current grant competition will provide support to a lead NGO to work in partnership with other organizations and experts to use the above resources to coordinate an initiative aimed at effective enforcement of human rights standards in patient care through targeted activities.
The goal of this initiative is to advance enforcement of human rights in patient care, particularly for marginalized groups, by translating laws and procedures into practical terms for legal practitioners, health care providers, and patients. This initiative additionally aims to build the field of human rights in patient care through the development of case law, published writing, leadership, and networks.
Soros Foundation-Moldova, OSF’ Law and Health Initiative and Human Rights Initaive are pleased to announce a competition for a one-year grant to an NGO active in Law, Human Rights and Patient Care fields.
The one-year grant to be awarded aims to contribute to the development of a new generation of lawyers with expertise in human rights and patient care, increase the capacity of local NGOs, and build this field through trainings and the development of materials and networks.
Project proposals should include the following components:
1) Situation Analysis
Please articulate the problems this project aims to address and the main barriers to using the law to advance human rights in patient care for marginalized groups in your country. Please reflect on the following:
2) Organizational Background
3) Patient-Friendly Materials Focused on Marginalized Populations
4) Networking and Dissemination
This proposal supports a lead NGO to work in partnership with other organizations. How do you plan to collaborate with other organizations working in the health and human rights field in your country?
How do you propose to disseminate the Practitioner Guide, patient-friendly materials, and Health and Human Rights Resource Guide? How do you propose to increase traffic to the web site? Please be creative! For instance, you may want to have these materials endorsed by national bar associations, reviewed in professional journals, placed in hospital lobbies, made available in libraries, and distributed by CD at relevant conferences. Links to the webs site can be placed on postcards, stationary, and pens.
5) Trainings
Please propose a training plan for the year, using the Practitioner Guide, patient friendly materials, and Health and Human Rights Resource Guide.
6) Budget
Please provide a detailed budget covering costs of this project.
7) Monitoring and Evaluation
What do you hope to achieve with respect to enforcement of human rights in patient care, particularly for marginalized groups, in your country? How do the project activities support these goals? How can this link be detected, and what indicators will you use to measure progress?
8) Project period
The project implementation period - 12 months.
Grant application (in English) must include
A guide for project proposals application can be downloaded here:
http://www.soros.md/files/Ghidul%20solicitantului%20de%20finantare_2013.pdf
The budget form can be downloaded here: http://www.soros.md/documents
Proposal Review and Evaluation
Each proposal will be reviewed and evaluated independently. The final decision will be issued by the Public Health Program sub-Board/Soros Foundation Moldova Board, based on OSF’s Law and Health Initiative and Human Rights Initiative recommendations.
Deadline
The deadline for proposals submission has been extended.
Project proposals and supporting documents must be received no later than 17:00 on October 31st, 2013 by e-mail at foundation@soros.md or in hard copy at the following address: 32, Bulgara Street, MD-2001, Chisinau (Soros – Moldova Foundation). In subject area, please mention “PG implementation”.