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Implemented, ongoing and planned activities

Introduction

As stipulated in the Declaration concerning the establishment of a NDPHS, the Partnership's mission is to promote sustainable development of the Northern Dimension area by improving peoples’ health and social well-being. Accordingly, the NDPHS activities contribute to this process by intensifying cooperation, assisting the Partners and Participants in capacity building, and by enhancing coordination between international activities within the area. The Partnership works within two main priority fields:

• Reduction of the spread of major communicable diseases and prevention of life-style related non-communicable diseases;
  
• Enhancing peoples’ levels of social well-being and to promote socially rewarding lifestyles.

Since its establishment the NDPHS has been advocating for the importance of actions addressing regional challenges and producing tangible results with measurable impact. Accordingly, during the past years the NDPHS delivered a many tangible results through a wide array of concrete and pragmatic activities which included, but were not limited to: policy and expertise exchange, information sharing and dialogue, project development and implementation, information production and dissemination, advocacy, and administrative and organizational issues.

During the period up to 2020, the NDPHS work is guided by the NDPHS Strategy 2020 and the Action Plan accompanying the Strategy 2020 which were adopted by the NDPHS Committee of Senior Representatives (CSR) in 2015 and define, inter alia, objectives, results and activities planned to be taken to achieve these results. Specific actions to be taken by the NDPHS working structures in a given year are outlined in NDPHS annual work plans, and the information about their implementation in the NDPHS annual progress reports. Efforts to lead and coordinate the Policy Area “Health” in the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region make an important part of the Partnership’s activities.

The NDPHS activities focus either on thematic areas (individual NDPHS Expert Groups have the main role here) or cross-cutting, horizontal topics (all NDPHS structures play collectively a role here).

The Partnership recognises that making progress towards achieving the set objectives requires profound engagement of other stakeholders operating in the Northern Dimension area. Consequently, it works towards accomplishing these objectives in cooperation with several other organisations and stakeholders.

The following sections provide guidance to web pages and documents providing detailed information about the Partnership’s past, ongoing and planned activities and achievements. Additionally, the “NDPHS EVENTS” section on the homepage provides links to the upcoming and latest events of the Partnership.

Ongoing and planned activities

Information about the Partnership’s ongoing and planned activities is presented in various places of this website depending on its character and the responsible NDPHS structure.
 

• The Action Plan accompanying the Strategy 2020 provides a general information about the activities planned to be implemented until 2017 (or, in case of some actions, later);
• The web pages of the individual Expert Groups present their activities aimed to implement the above-named Action Plan;

• NDPHS annual work plans give an overview of the actions to be launched or continued (if already launched) and, where specified, completed in a given year. They are prepared in accordance with the Elements for the development of NDPHS EG Annual Work Plans (the "Annual work plan template” which makes part of the former file and should be used is provided here) and are subsequently adopted by the Partnership Annual Conference (PAC) or the Committee of Senior Representatives (CSR) and cover all NDPHS structures, among them the NDPHS Secretariat and the NDPHS Expert Groups. So far the following work plans were adopted:
   

    ° NDPHS Annual Work Plan for 2007 

    ° NDPHS Annual Work Plan for 2008 

    ° NDPHS Annual Work Plan for 2009 

    ° NDPHS Annual Work Plan for 2010 

    ° NDPHS Annual Work Plan for 2011 

    ° NDPHS Annual Work Plan for 2012 

    ° NDPHS Annual Work Plan for 2013

    ° NDPHS Annual Work Plan for 2014 

    ° NDPHS Annual Work Plan for 2016

    ° NDPHS Annual Work Plan for 2017

    ° NDPHS Annual Work Plan for 2018

    ° NDPHS Annual Work Plan for 2019 (only Expert Groups) 

• The list of projects vis-à-vis which the NDPHS played a role provides information about the regional projects that the NDPHS implemented or is currently implementing (alone or with other partners), or which greatly benefited from the NDPHS support and involvement. This list has been developed in accordance with the definition of the types of projects vis-à-vis which the NDPHS plays a role;
• The “Meetings” section includes pages where documents submitted to the ongoing and upcoming (as well as past) NDPHS meetings have been posted;
• The on-line calendar lists ongoing and upcoming (as well as past) events concerning public health and social well-being in the Northern Dimension area in general. Not only NDPHS events are included therein – any stakeholder may request that their event be also included (read further down).

All relevant stakeholders are welcome and encouraged to play a role in improving existing health and social conditions by becoming involved in the NDPHS work. Stakeholders interested to be engaged in the EUSBSR Policy Area “Health” activities should read this page first. You are invited to contact the NDPHS Secretariat to discuss further details.

Implemented activities

Information about the Partnership’s past activities is presented in various places of this website depending on its character and the responsible NDPHS structure.

• The progress made by the NDPHS’ individual structures and the entire Partnership collectively is well documented in the yearly progress reports which take stock of the achievements made, describe and evaluate implementation of the activities foreseen in the respective work plan and present final conclusions. So far the following progress reports were adopted:
   

    ° NDPHS Annual Progress Report for 2007 

    ° NDPHS Annual Progress Report for 2008 

    ° NDPHS Annual Progress Report for 2009 

    ° NDPHS Annual Progress Report for 2010 

    ° NDPHS Annual Progress Report for 2011 

    ° NDPHS Annual Progress Report for 2012 

    ° NDPHS Annual Progress Report for 2013 

    ° NDPHS Annual Progress Report for 2014 

    ° NDPHS Annual Progress Report for 2015

° NDPHS Annual Progress Report for 2016

° NDPHS Annual Progress Report for 2017

• The report about the implementation of the NDPHS Strategy in 2010-2013 provides a general overview of the implementation of the NDPHS Strategy in 2010-2013;
• The web pages of the individual Expert Groups present their activities aimed to implement the above-named Action Plan;
• The list of projects vis-à-vis which the NDPHS played a role provides information about the regional projects that the NDPHS implemented or is currently implementing (alone or with other partners), or which greatly benefited from the NDPHS support and involvement. This list has been developed in accordance with the definition of the types of projects vis-à-vis which the NDPHS plays a role;
• The “Meetings” section includes pages where documents submitted to the ongoing and upcoming (as well as past) NDPHS meetings have been posted;
• The on-line calendar lists past (as well as ongoing and upcoming) events concerning public health and social well-being in the Northern Dimension area in general. Not only NDPHS events are included therein – any stakeholder may request that their event be also included (read more further down);
• EUSBSR section provides information about efforts to implement activities listed in the EUSBSR Action Plan Policy Area “Health.”

The Partnership periodically undergoes an evaluation of its structures, activities, results and their impact, which are conducted by independent consultants. They aim to help keep the NDPHS’ activities focused on delivering tangible results in the areas agreed by the Partners and are an important reference point in the development of subsequent Partnership strategies and action plans. Information about and the results of the most recent evaluations can be found in:

• The NDPHS Evaluation Report for 2003-2008;
• The NDPHS Evaluation Report for 2009-2013.