📋 Tender Overview
Medicus Mundi Switzerland is a Network of 49 Swiss non-governmental organisations, foundations and scientific institutions involved in health advocacy at global level and health programmes in lowand middle-income countries. Taking a multisectoral approach and fostering open dialogue with relevant actors, decision-makers and the broader public, the Network facilitates the exchange of knowledge and experience and contributes to finding solutions to global health challenges
Background Progress made in advancing global health over the last decades is indisputable, but it is far from reaching everyone. Against the backdrop of a global polycrisis, inequity in health is increasing, which has a negative impact on the health of many populations. Combining the knowledge of its members and facilitating the exchange of experience, MMS, which has been active for 50 years, lays the foundations for continuously strengthening the quality, effectiveness and visibility of Switzerland’s international cooperation in health. The Network plays a key role in reinforcing health systems in low- and middle-income countries. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the Medicus Mundi (MMS) Network deciding to place a stronger focus on current and emerging global health crisis and their consequences worldwide, ensuring to leave nobody behind. In this new phase, MMS will put more emphasis on a multisectoral approach and will increasingly work together with social actors outside the health sector and incorporate the perspectives of new generations to solving ongoing and emerging challenges in international cooperation in health.
Objectives The MMS Network continuously strengthens the quality of its members’ international cooperation in health and Switzerland has a pioneering role in promoting the right to health for all at national and global level.
Target groups The MMS Network primarily benefits the local programme partners of the MMS member organisations. It also helps member organisations to strengthen themselves technically and institutionally, thereby improving their practice, quality and effectiveness. Additionally, the MMS Network helps to raise awareness of health and development issues among the public and decision-makers, with a constant focus on promoting equity and the right to health, leaving no one behind.
Medium-term outcomes Outcome 1: MMS member organisations work with each other and with emerging stakeholders within and beyond global health. Outcome 2: MMS member organisations learn with and from each other within the Network and build on fact-based knowledge. Outcome 3: MMS mobilises the expertise of its member organisations and engages in open dialogue with everyone. Through its work, MMS works to ensure that the right to health for all is widely recognised as a realistic goal. Outcome 4: The MMS Network has a solid institutional basis.
Results Expected results:
Creation of a knowledge base on futureoriented topics in international cooperation in health.
