The NGO European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) is creating a searchable tool of NGOs active in the health field that will feature in the European Commission's EU-health portal to encourage networking between NGOs at the European level.
In practical terms, this means that a visitor of the Commission's website interested in mental health could find out which organisations work on mental health in its own country and have an immediate access to a database to find useful partners or organisations.
As the largest network of NGOs working on health, EPHA was contracted to put together a database framework and gather the data. EPHA is discussing with the Commission the technical formats that could be used for the database, but EPHA's approach is that software should be open source, inter-operable and user-friendly.
Given the fact that health includes quality of social and emotional experiences, organisations operating in the social and development field are welcome to register.
Being EPHA the contractor for this project, the ownership of the final database will remain with the European Commission , which means that it will not be used for commercial purposes.
If you would like to have further information, please do not hesitate to contact Daniela Negri, EPHA policy assistant, on +32 2 233 3886 or at daniela@epha.org.
Information sent by Daniela Negri, EPHA
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