Health in the Eastern Neighbourhood

Territorial coverage: Eastern Neighbourhood region

Transformational Potential:

• Strengthening health resilience in the Eastern partner countries;
• Strengthening of health systems (including readiness and capacity to address future health emergencies) in the region.

The Team Europe Proposal:

The core of the TEI is an EU-funded vaccine preparedness and deployment programme.

The activities include:

1. Vaccine sharing mechanism

• Identify available vaccine stockpiles and match them with demand in EaP;
• Distribute equitably the vaccines donated/sold by MSs Expand visibility of Team Europe in EaP;
• Job shadowing scheme on health resilience.

2. Support the readiness and absorption capacity of partner countries for vaccines (WHO)

• Support/update national vaccine deployment plans;
• Procurement of essential supplies to deliver vaccines safely;
• Training of health workers on vaccine handling and vaccine characteristics;
• Scale up IT capacity and information management systems - EU-compliant COVID-19 digital certificates;
• Targeted (information) campaigns;
• Vulnerable groups, outreach vaccination activities in rural areas.