EUROPEAN STUDIES AND PUBLIC POLICIES, pages: 7 - 26, 2025

Community Integrating Health and Social Services a Sustainability Analysis Approach of a Healthcare Project in Romania, Funded by the Swiss-Romanian Cooperation Program

Doi: https://doi.org/10.58603/KAAQ7487

Rezumat: This article displays a sustainability analysis conducted in 2023. It exemplifies how this type of analysis can be performed at the project level, reproducing the procedure on as many projects as predetermined and drawing conclusions about the entire program. The need to evaluate government-funded interventions and implemented social programs has become more urgent. Stakeholders must have assurance that the projects they funded are performing as intended. To help ensure the proper functioning and overview of a project, more evaluations must be conducted. Due to the nature of the program phase, a full-scale evaluation was not possible; however, it was more than suitable to conduct the sustainability analysis. The program ended in 2019, and the analysis was conducted in 2023. To assess the program, several methods were applied. The program documents underwent a content analysis before the sustainability analysis. Sustainability was observed with the help of survey questionnaires, document review, telephone conversations, and on-site object observations. The results of the overall analysis, conducted in 2023, were not as expected, nor were those of the analyzed project presented in this article. The content analysis showed positive results, and the sustainability analysis revealed the overall project`s success. Nevertheless, we have recommendations based on the project analysis. Those will be discussed in the article`s summary.