WHAT: This folder contains guidance and planning and assessment tools to implement reform of national social care financing from institutionalized care to a family and community-based framework.
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Redirecting Resources to Community Based Services: A Concept Paper: A comparative analysis of social care financing systems in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, with guidance on transitioning to family based care.
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Executive Summary of the above concept paper
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Introduction to the toolkit
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Introduction to the templates: The templates are tools to help describe and analyze the current care system e.g. financing, reimbursements to referral partners, providers’ incomes and costs, indirect costs, projections.
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Instructions for each template
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Templates: An excel document containing all the templates
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Introduction to the checklists
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Checklist 1: Financing and budget reforms
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Checklist 2: Setting up the purchaser organization
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Checklist 3: Opening up for new providers
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Checklist 4: Handling the tendering process
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Checklist 5: Formulation of contract
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Checklist 6: Facility planning and management
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Checklist 7: Terms of reference for technical assistance and training.
WHO: Policy makers, researchers and managers involved in care and protection system analysis and deinstitutionalization.
WHERE: While the tools were written for use in the CEE/CIS region, the guidance contained draws on broader research into financing systems and redirecting resources, and therefore has much broader application in terms of guiding a transition from institutionalized care to family and community-based care. The tools will need to be adapted to suit the local context.
WHY: Provides a model guiding financing flows to a variety of new community-based non-residential options, and thus using institutional care only as a last resort. It includes useful forms and spreadsheets for collecting, aggregating and analyzing the current situation, planning reform and projecting future demand/supply scenarios, and conducting future comparisons and assessments. Also includes checklists with questions and advice concerning financing and budget reforms, working with purchaser organization, new providers and a functioning market, and managing the tendering process.