Documentation MMS Symposium 2023

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MMS Symposium 2023 "The members of Medicus Mundi Switzerland have helped to sustainably improve the lives of people in disadvantaged communities and promote health as a fundamental human right."

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MMS Symposium 2023 Now after 45 years of the Alma Ata Declaration, the crisis in health at the global level and within countries is more severe than ever before.

MMS Symposium 2023 Make global health actually global and shed the legacies of colonialism and racism that leave so many as ‘recipients’ of our charity rather than ‘partners’ in our work towards a just and sustainable future where everyone has equitable access to health care across all of our world.

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MMS Symposium 2023 "Colonial patterns still determine how we work, our financing models, how we as NGOs are dependent from institutional donors that work again along these colonial patterns without realising it."

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MMS Symposium 2023 The call for the decolonisation of international (health) cooperation has become stronger since the rise of the Black Lives Matter-movement. Decolonisation demands from NGOs to revise and transform the way they are working by structurally changing the power relations between them and the partners and communities. The panel will deepen the insights of decoloniality on international health cooperation and global health.

MMS Symposium 2023 What should our sector look like in the future? What can and should tdhs’ role be in a changing aid sector? It’s a critical reflection really of power dynamics, structures, processes and roles within the organization.

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MMS Symposium 2023 Localisation and the decolonisation of aid mean a shift in power dynamics between actors in both humanitarian and development contexts. It means empowerment for people affected by crises. Aid is still currently designed for short term responses that are not conducive to forging efficient and long-lasting aid, which eventually impairs the sustainability of programs in place and can create disempowerment of people, systems, and dependency in countries of intervention.

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MMS Symposium 2023 For maximum impact we establish public- and private-sector partnerships and connect global and local expertise. The Novartis Foundation acts as catalyzer and strategic guide of these partnerships and supports the operational execution of local innovator ecosystems and empowers local solutions.

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MMS Symposium 2023 The Albatross transformation process is a manifestation of SRC’s commitment to locally-led action. The Albatross is redefining the services SRC is providing to its stakeholders, specifically its Sister National Societies as well as its funding partners.

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MMS Symposium 2023 Revisiting some classic principles guiding International Development and Cooperation such as “do no harm”, “ownership” and “participation” would offer viable guidance and inputs to realise cooperation at eye-level.”

MMS Symposium 2023 Donors as actors in international health cooperation play a crucial role in transforming or conservating structures that form inequity in this sector. This starts with individual donors just wanting to “help” and feel good about their “help”. The marketing departments of many NGOs are reacting on this demand by communicating with symbols that perpetuate racial and chauvinistic perceptions of the global south. On the other hand, foundations, or state donors impose by their accountability systems structures that are hindering northern NGOs in overcoming their colonized structures.

MMS Symposium 2023 Members of Network Medicus Mundi Switzerland have always been in the forefront of adapting their mode of working to a changing environment. After a full day of debating on how to be overcoming deeply rooted colonial structures in international health cooperation and global health, we address the basic question, how international health cooperation and global health will look like in 15 years.