Together for Life is known as one of the first organizations in Albania that is engaged in the protection of patients' rights.
TFL implements projects that focus on:
✅continuous cooperation with central and local healthcare and human rights institutions in order to increase the quality of healthcare services and increase access to them, especially for vulnerable groups;
✅constant pressure on the institutions responsible for increasing transparency in policy making and distribution and spending of funds made available to this sector;
✅monitoring the implementation of health policies to ensure the effectiveness of services;
✅informing, promoting, raising awareness of patients about their rights and the ways and means that can and should be used when neglected, any of these rights are violated;
✅investigating and mobilizing institutional and legal mechanisms to protect the right of individual patients to guaranteed health care.
Activities
TFL raises priority issues in the health sector, in the hearing session on the discussion of the draft budget 2024
Presentation of the project "Increasing community engagement in Vau i Dejes for resolving local issues", consultation table for the needs assessment
TFL organizes the second workshop with CSOs: "Transparency and accountability in the health sector – Why is CSOs' participation in budgeting important?"
TFL zhvillon trajnimin 3-ditor “Rritja e kapaciteteve të OSHC për t’u përfshirë në procese monitorimi, mbikëqyrjeje dhe avokimi në sektorin e arsimit dhe të shëndetësisë”
Publications
Healthcare and social protection sectors expenditures monitoring report for the year 2023
Monitoring Report: Does the scheme of Mandatory Healthcare Fund covers the real needs for health care
Assessment report on the capacity-building needs of local CSO-s to enhance their supervisory role in public institutions
