Policy instruments
Discover the policy instruments that the partners of this project are tackling.
A means for public intervention. It refers to any policy, strategy, or law developed by public authorities and applied on the ground to improve a specific territorial situation. In most cases, financial resources are associated with a policy instrument. However, an instrument can also sometimes refer to a legislative framework with no specific funding. In the context of Interreg Europe, operational programmes for Investment for Growth and Jobs as well as Cooperation Programmes from European Territorial Cooperation are policy instruments. Beyond EU cohesion policy, local, regional, or national public authorities also develop their own policy instruments.
For the period 2021-2027, Normandy will benefit from 401,531,295 euros from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Development Fund (ERDF), 106,703,089 euros from the Just Transition Fund (FTJ) and 88,505,826 euros from the European Social Fund (ESF+).
Priority 5 of the ERDF is concerned with "Meeting the development needs of urban and non-urban areas through the participation of their populations and stakeholders" and the specific objectives "Territorial development in urban areas" and "Territorial development in non-urban areas";
OS 5.1 - Territorial development in urban areas and SO 5.2 - Territorial development in non-urban areas
DI 128 "Health infrastructures
Improving access to healthcare in Normandy: As in the case of urban and non-urban areas (see OS 5.1 / 5.2), the following can be noted:
- An ageing population;
- Life expectancy at birth among the lowest in France;
- Premature excess mortality due to cancer, circulatory diseases and suicide:
- in terms of access to healthcare, a particularly critical situation concerning general practitioners.
DI128 "Healthcare infrastructures" aims to combat medical desertification and improve access to healthcare, particularly for the most disadvantaged sections of the population.
ERDF assistance is justified to accelerate the development of local public health facilities, innovative actions (telemedicine, "médicobus", etc.) or relevant initiatives and actions in the most disadvantaged areas
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Highlighting one of the current government's priorities, the mental health and emotional well-being of young people, the new generation of the Cuida-te Programme was approved through Ministerial Order no. 235/2024/1 of 26 September.
The new format also focuses on innovation in intervention, namely strengthening the areas of prevention and health promotion, as fundamental dimensions in the development of young people.
The new Cuida-te Programme aims to promote youth health in the areas of mental health and emotional well-being, sexuality, the body and physical activity, addictive behaviours and nutrition.
Objectives
The Programme aims to:
a) Address the main determinants of young people's health in the Programme's different areas of intervention;
b) Promote protective factors and the reduction of risk factors for non-communicable diseases related to young people's healthy lifestyles;
c) Adopting a preventive and comprehensive approach to youth health, i.e. targeting various areas of young people's lives, involving multiple partners, namely families, peers, schools and communities.
Intervention Areas
1. The Programme´s areas of intervention are:
a) Mental health and emotional well-being, as a central axis;
b) Body and physical activity;
c) Food;
d) Sexuality;
e) Addictive behaviours.
Measures
a) Measure 1, “Personalised Support”;
b) Measure 2, “Community Intervention”;
c) Measure 3, “Knowledge”.
The aim of the Municipal Action Strategy on Mental Health is to improve the mental health situation among the population of the municipality of Murcia, intervening in all those areas in which the City Council of Murcia is competent to do so.
General Objectives:
1. To promote mental health and emotional well-being.
2. To protect the population of Murcia from the factors of special vulnerability in the development of mental disorders.
3. To reduce stigmatisation and discrimination on mental health grounds, favouring the inclusion of people with mental health diagnoses in the community and making them more visible.
4. To generate alliances and strengthen existing networks to improve care for citizens, improving the coordination of the agents and groups involved in an effective response to mental health problems.
5. To prevent suicide.
Strategic lines
1. Promotion, protection and prevention.
2. Reducing stigma and discrimination. Promoting equality and inclusion of people diagnosed with mental health.
3. Suicide prevention.
4. Socio-health coordination to ensure care and responsiveness. Creation of intersectoral and inter-institutional alliances and networks.
After 2026, the Municipality of Murcia plans to publish a new Municipal Mental Health Action Strategy for the following years.
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National Youth Strategy of Albania 2022-2029 aims to create a supportive environment for the comprehensive development of young people in Albania.
Characteristics:
• Comprehensive Approach addressing various aspects of youth life: education, employment, health, and participation.
• Youth-Centric: Emphasizes the importance of youth participation in the development and implementation of policies and programs. It focuses on creating youth-friendly services and environments.
• Inclusive and Equitable: Special attention to vulnerable youth populations and to reduce disparities between urban and rural areas.
Priority or Measure Addressed:
1. Chapter 3: Health and Well-being:
• Objective: Enhance the physical and mental youth health & wellbeing.
• Measures:
- Increase accessibility to youth-friendly mental health services.
- Implement programs for mental health awareness, prevention, and early intervention.
- Provide training for mental health professionals.
- Section 3.2: Mental Health: Specific Actions: Integrate mental health education into the school curriculum; develop school-based mental health programs; train educators and school counselors to support students with mental health challenges.
- Section 3.4: Preventive Programs: Specific Actions: Preventive mental health programs targeting youth; promote stress management and resilience-building activities; foster community-based mental health initiatives.
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The plan aims to improve the lives of children and young people. It operates through cross-cutting priorities and aims, among other things, to create and safeguard equal opportunities and broad developmental opportunities for children and young people. The mental health of young people is a major concern and runs as a common thread through the priorities of the plan. https://www.vlaanderen.be/cjm/sites/default/files/2021-04/Vlaams%20Jeugd-%20en%20Kinderrechtenbeleidsplan%202020-2024_EN.pdf.
The plan outlines the priority transversal objectives of youth policy, including outcome indicators. The plan is based on a minimum of three and a maximum of five priority transversal objectives for children and young people, based on a scientific environmental analysis describing the state of youth.
The priorities of the current Flemish Youth and Children's Rights Policy Plan are:
a) Well-being and positive identity development
b) Healthy and livable neighborhoods
c) Engagement in society through voluntary participation
d) Leisure activities for all
e) Media literacy.
For each of these priorities, the plan determines objectives with underlying actions, timing, responsible ministers, and powers. With the JKP, Flanders connects objectives with concrete, achievable, and implementable actions that have an impact and observable effect on the lives of all children, young people, and young adults in Flanders and Brussels.
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The policy instrument includes 1 priority and 2 specific objectives relevant to the project:
4 priority. A more social Lithuania:
• Specific objective – 4.8. To enhance equal and timely access to quality, sustainable and affordable services, including services that promote the access to housing and person-centred care including healthcare; to modernise social protection systems, including promoting access to social protection, with a particular focus on children and disadvantaged groups; to improve the accessibility including for persons with disabilities, effectiveness and resilience of healthcare systems and long-term care services
• Specific objective – 4.10. To ensure equal access to health care and to foster resilience of health systems, including primary care, and promote the transition from institutional to family-based and community-based care (ERDF)
The Instrument objectives aims to promote preventive measures that strengthen public health and psychological well-being and resilience. It is planned to increase the availability of mental health promotion, addiction prevention and suicide prevention services.
The Instrument’s objectives also aims to strengthen primary health care (including primary mental healthcare) to provide a comprehensive, continuous and coordinated care, which is vital in order to improve the disease prevention.
Within Priority 2.2. Improve health system outcomes and measures 2.2.2. Strengthening the potential of preventive medicine, improving health and quality of life implies the implementation of the concept of new public health through an intersectoral approach to the well-being of society, healthy public policy and the introduction of the concept of lifelong learning about health, healthy lifestyle and healthy choices.
Health promotion, disease prevention and quality of life improvement programs aim to involve and empower individuals and the community in making healthy behaviour choices and making changes that reduce the risk of early development of chronic diseases and other diseases. Special attention in the area of prevention and health promotion should be focused on children and youth in order to prevent the development of unhealthy lifestyles and to stimulate young people to adopt healthy lifestyles. In order to provide a more complete and better response to the needs of the population, it is necessary to improve gender-sensitive programs aimed at improving health prevention and protection, especially of vulnerable groups.
Designing and implementing systematic and comprehensive preventive programs, with a special focus on early detection and prevention of mass non-communicable diseases (like cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, among others) is a need in modern health care systems.
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“Regulation on inclusive education” provides general support activities to ensure personal development of children and including health care, violence prevention, overcome deficits, problem behaviour and achieve child`s physical, mental and social well-being, The Regulation aims to provide a psychological and social environment for developing the abilities of students focusing on personal development for all students for equal inclusion in educational process and social life. General support includes teamwork between teachers and other pedagogical specialists, career guidance, health care, provision of shared accommodation, encouragement with rewards, activities for prevention of educational difficulties, speech therapy work, activities of interest.
Additional support is provided as a result of assessment of students` individual needs to support young people with difficulties, mental health disorders including a complex set of activities to achieve an optimal level of independence and to acquire skills for inclusion in social life.
Mental health and psychological resilience of young people for their successful inclusion in school and social life is the objective of the both types of support provided by the policy instrument.
Support for personal development of students is organised and provided by established regional and municipal strategies for support in order to achieve community-based care. In this sense it is implemented on the basis of inter-institutional cooperation.
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