The beneficiary shall: Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic, Pribinova 2, 812 72 Bratislava
Partner: Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic, Limbová 2, 837 52 Bratislava
Amount of non-recoverable financial contribution: EUR 85 288 928,00
Date of decision to grant NFP: 13.10.2021
Date of entry into force of the decision: 14.10.2021
This project is implemented through support from the European Social Fund under the Operational Programme Effective Public Administration (OP EVS).
- Priority axis 4: REACT - EU
- Specific objective 4.1: Reduction of the impact of COVID 19 pandemics in the provision of public services
Management body of the EVS OP: Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic
Location of the project: The whole territory of the Slovak Republic
Project implementation deadline:03/2020-12/2021
Project description
The main objective of the national project is to support the institutional capacity of the public administration to maintain the availability of health services and to support the provision of specialised services in the areas of security services and support activities in crisis situations of public order, effective crisis management and risk reduction measures, including the identification of procedures and actions to address the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The implementation of the submitted project will stabilise the jobs of selected public officials through the funding of incentive salary supplements for superior performance during the pandemic period.
The measurable indicators of the project are:
- Value of ESF actions targeting and combating COVID-19 pandemic or mitigation (total public expenditure): EUR 85 288 928
- Number of participants supported to combat or mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic: 75 514
- Number of entities supported to combat or mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic: 7 101
- Number of participants who retained jobs six months after the end of the support: 64 200
MAIN PROJECT ACTIVITY
Main project activity "Support for selected institutional capacity of public health care administrations and specialised public services in the context of measures aimed at eliminating the COVID-19 pandemic is consistent with:
- the eligible type of activities of the Operational Programme Effective Public Administration,
- call for national project No OPEVS-PO4-SC4.1-2021-3.
The main activity of the present national project is aimed at ensuring the stabilisation of the jobs of selected public officials through the financing of incentive wage supplements for above standard performances during the pandemic period.
The main activity of the national project is implemented through two sub-activities, namely:
- promoting the stability of the health system and maintaining the availability of health services despite the effects and long-term negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic;
- support for the provision of specialised public services as an enabling apparatus to ensure the availability of health services in the areas of provision of security services and support activities in crisis situations, maintenance of public order, effective crisis management and risk reduction measures, including the identification of procedures and actions to address the consequences of emergencies.
Subactivity 1. 1
Promoting the stability of the health system and maintaining the availability of health services despite the impacts and long-term negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
The department of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic has allowed all healthcare providers (subordinated organisations of MZ SR, public bodies as well as private law bodies) to reward first line health workers and/or in the red zone involved in providing health care in the framework of economic mobilisation. With regard to material No UV-23300/2020, which was discussed by the Slovak Government on 28 October 2020 and approved for private entities by Resolution No 690/2020, the procedure for the remuneration of health workers in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic for the period of their occupation from 1 April 2020 to 31 July 2020, creating the conditions for a transparent, efficient and motivating method of remuneration for individual groups of workers, whose ambition is to fairly reward healthcare workers for their particular deployment in the context of a crisis or emergency situation, which also creates the preconditions for the support of health workers in the next wave of the WHOID-19 pandemic. In the case of subordinate organisations of MZ SR and public entities, support was made for the compensation of capacities providing medical services in the first line and/or in the red zone within the available resources of the state budget of the chapter of MZ SR.
Subactivity 1. 2
Support for the provision of specialised public services as an enabling apparatus to ensure the availability of health services in the areas of provision of security services and support activities in crisis situations, maintenance of public order, efficient crisis management and risk reduction measures, including the identification of procedures and actions to address the consequences of emergencies.
Another part of the support is the provision of funding in addition to standard performances and exceptional field deployment by members of the Slovak Fire and Rescue Corps (HAZZ) and officers of the Slovak Police Corps (hereinafter referred to as "PR") within the Department of the Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic in the implementation of support measures to the health system in the Slovak Republic in connection with measures to eliminate the pandemic of COVID-19 disease, both in relation to performance under the ordered overtime fund and in the framework of the motivational compensation of employees.
Information on the Effective Public Administration Operational Programme can be found on the new EVS portal www.reformuj.sk.