Mashav-UNECE Workshop Community services for the elderly, 5-14 March 2012, ,

Viviane Brunne

Geneva, 22 November 2012

Participants

– Participants from from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (3), Republic of Moldova (2), Russian Federation (3), Serbia (2), Vietnam (2), China, Myanmar

– From Ministries, NGOs, social service providers Expert sessions

• Visit of the Center for Research on Ageing at the Myers- JDC-Brookdale Institute, Jenny Brodsky, Director

• Ageing In Place, Professor Yitzhak Brick, Director General of the Association for the Planning and Development of Services for the Aged in Israel (ESHEL) • Developing, Designing and Managing Services for the Aged and Intergenerational Relations, Professor Ariela Lowenstein, Head of Center for Research & Study of Aging, University of Haifa • Vitalija Gaucaite-Wittich (UNECE), Viviane Brunne (UNECE), Bernd Marin (ECV), Dirk Jarre (EURAG)

Group work

– Project proposals

PROJECT CHARTER Project Name: Project Objectives: (What is the project designed to produce and to achieve?) Scope: Constraints/Context: (What’s out of scope?) Team/Resource roles: (Who does what?) Project Risk Assessment (Which ones have we anticipated?) Project Milestones: (What needs to happen and when? Include project review dates in this section) Achievement Indicators: (How will we know if we’ve succeeded?)

Sites & projects

• Association for the Elderly in Ra'anana • Day-Care Center for the Elderly and Employment, Fitness and Recreation Center • Lifeline for the Aged A nonprofit organization empowering and supporting over 300 elderly and disabled residents on a daily basis • Yad Sarah: Israel's largest volunteer organization for homecare support services • Flieman Rehabilitation Hospital, Haifa

Sites & projects

Excursions

• Yad Vashem, Holocaust Memorial Museum

• Jerusalem

• Dead Sea

Save the date

9-18 April 2013 – The Golda Meir Mount Carmel International Training Center (MCTC), Haifa, with support from MASHAV – Israel’s Agency for International Cooperation Development and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem, Israel