📋 Tender Overview
MSF-CH provides medical humanËtariana id to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics and disasters or excluded from health services. It ensures access to sexual and reproductive health, paediatric care, surgery and WASH. It responds to epidemic, and treats non-communicable diseases and conditions, including mental health. It focuses on strengthening local healthcare and improving medical protocols and advocates for action on neglected crises. Health and humanitarian aid are important pillars of Swiss 25-28 IC strategy.
Country/region Topic Period Budget
Global
Health
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Medical services
Primary health care
Health systems strengthening
01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026
CHF 12’530’000
The project in brief
Background The international environment is characterised by numerous multiple crises. The consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the escalation in the Middle East, food insecurity, debt burden and inflation, climate change and the energy crisis are all having a direct impact on the world's population. They particularly affect the most vulnerable, mostly women and children and result in increasing humanitarian needs. Accelerated change is accompanied by increased uncertainty: The world is becoming more fragmented, unstable and unpredictable. Whilst the vision to reach the Sustainable Development Goals remains, challenges includingt he accelerating global food and nutrition crisis, shrinking civic and humanitarian space, the erosion of rule of law, intensifying armed conflicts, more frequent climate-related disasters, international migration and forced displacement, exacerbated demographics and an important gender gap hamper progress in reaching them. Furthermore, infectious diseases such as cholera, measles, diphtheria and hepatitis, have reached unprecedented levels and are occurring in countries that are already overwhelmed by forgotten crises, including Niger, Chad and Yemen. Climate-sensitive diseases - like malaria or dengue - and neglected tropical diseases require special consideration. Acute malnutrition due to food insecurity is still a significant medical humanitarian issue that contributes to child mortality and worsens chronic medical conditions. Barriers to meeting humanitarian needs have grown. Thus, securing impartial spaces for gender-sensitive medical humanitarian action in favour of the most at risks is a priority for MSF-CH, including for the security of its own staff and facilities. The ability to adapt quickly to changing circumstances remains paramount for MSF-CH.
Objectives Guided by medical ethics and the principles of impartiality, independence and neutrality, contribute to saving lives and alleviating the suffering of people in situation of acute and chronic crises by ensuring affordable and sustainable access to quality medical care for the most in need.
Results of the organisation's previous engagement In 2023, MSF-CH managed 112 medical humanitarian projects in 33 countries. A
