Main area: Peace and security
Theme: Activities by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
Assessment: Partially ODA-eligible
Provider country: Various NATO members
Recipient country: Ukraine
Implementing agency: NATO Support and Procurement Agency
Budget (USD x 1000): 2 250
Year(s): 2016-2018
Purpose code: 12191 Medical Services, 12181 Medical Education Training
Case number: Peace and Security / 44
Ukraine Medical Rehabilitation Trust Fund
At the 2014 Wales Summit, NATO launched substantial new programmes to enhance assistance to capability development and sustainable capacity-building in Ukraine's security and defence sector. Medical rehabilitation was identified as one of the key areas to develop further cooperation.
The Ukraine Medical Rehabilitation Trust Fund provides support to patients, i.e. active and discharged Ukrainian servicemen and women and civilian personnel from the defence and security sector, to ensure they have rapid access to medical rehabilitation and longer-term medical services. It reinforces the medical rehabilitation system in Ukraine to ensure that it has the means to provide long-term sustainable services. The Trust Fund involves short, medium and long-term activities:
Medical rehabilitation services and assistive devices abroad, subsidising travel costs, accommodation, food, treatment, physical rehabilitation and provision of prostheses/ orthoses.
Vocational rehabilitation services, designed to enable beneficiaries to prepare for application procedures, as employment is being considered essential to gain or regain independence.
Sport rehabilitation services in partnership with the National Paralympic Committee of Ukraine. Beneficiaries consist of up to 50% former servicemen/women and 50% civilians or internally displaced persons from the Donbas area.
Provision of appropriate equipment to five medical rehabilitation units in hospitals to improve the quality of services. The beneficiary hospitals are under the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Social Policy and the National Guard.
Provision of equipment and facilitation of technology transfer to two prostheses centres.
Competencies development of professional staff to ensure quality and sustainability of medical services, including on-the-job training, mentoring, participation in conferences, train-the-trainer training, distance-learning, and the development and conduct of short-term courses to refresh and enhance skills and knowledge at managerial and expert level.
Reinforcement of the medical rehabilitation system in Ukraine to ensure that the health system has the means to provide long-term sustainable services to active and discharged Ukrainian servicemen and women and civilian personnel from the defence and security sector.
This activity is deemed partially ODA-eligible. The provision of aid to the partner country military is not reportable as ODA. This exclusion covers the direct participation in military expenditures, assistance directly benefitting counterpart military structure and other contributions linked to a specific defence effort e.g. assistance that contributes to the strengthening of the military or fighting capacity of the armed forces (see DCD/DAC(2024)40/FINAL, paragraph 121). In this case, the provision of medical rehabilitation to Ukrainian servicemen and women is considered direct aid to the military in the partner country. However, the provision of medical rehabilitation to civilians is eligible.
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