This report indicates the importance of innovations in the overall strategy of development of formal Long-term care in the country. Despite the enabling legal framework, ensuring sustainability and scaling-up of innovation can be challenging as it usually demands further legal adjustments and financing by the authorities.

Innovations are mostly project-based and scalability is often considered at a very late stage. However, it is important to engage relevant stakeholders already in the design phase. The InCARE Project Theory of Change national workshop represented a novel and coherent approach, in which stakeholders from social and healthcare sector were mobilised and a theory of change map was designed that can contribute to the development of national policies.

Read the Policy Brief here: InCARE Policy Brief 9 Potential Social Innovation North Macedonia final final pdf