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Who We Are

Learn about our mission, our charter and principles, and who we are.

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How we work

See what triggers an intervention and how supply and logistics allow our teams to respond quickly.

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How we're run

Discover our governance and what it means to be an association. Find a quick visual guide to our offices around the world.

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Reports and financials

Read through our annual financial and activity reports, and find out about where our funds come from and how they are spent.

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What we do

Médecins Sans Frontières brings medical humanitarian assistance to victims of conflict, natural disasters, epidemics or healthcare exclusion.

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Where we work

In more than 70 countries, Médecins Sans Frontières provides medical humanitarian assistance to save lives and ease the suffering of people in crisis situations.

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MSF Websites

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Our offices around the world
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MSF Association

Our staff “own” and manage MSF, making sure that we stay true to our mission and principles, through the MSF Associations.

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Access Campaign

We set up the MSF Access Campaign in 1999 to push for access to, and the development of, life-saving and life-prolonging medicines, diagnostic tests and vaccines for people in our programmes and beyond.

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Patient blogs

Hear directly from the inspirational people we help as they talk about their experiences dealing with often neglected, life-threatening diseases.

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CRASH

Based in Paris, CRASH conducts and directs studies and analysis of MSF actions. They participate in internal training sessions and assessment missions in the field.

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UREPH

Based in Geneva, UREPH (or Research Unit) aims to improve the way MSF projects are implemented in the field and to participate in critical thinking on humanitarian and medical action.

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ARHP

Based in Barcelona, ARHP documents and reflects on the operational challenges and dilemmas faced by the MSF field teams.

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MSF Analysis

Based in Brussels, MSF Analysis intends to stimulate reflection and debate on humanitarian topics organised around the themes of migration, refugees, aid access, health policy and the environment in which aid operates.

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MSF Supply

This logistical and supply centre in Brussels provides storage of and delivers medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.

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MSF Logistique

This supply and logistics centre in Bordeaux, France, provides warehousing and delivery of medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.

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Amsterdam Procurement Unit

This logistical centre in Amsterdam purchases, tests, and stores equipment including vehicles, communications material, power supplies, water-processing facilities and nutritional supplements.

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Southern Africa Medical Unit

SAMU provides strategic, clinical and implementation support to various MSF projects with medical activities related to HIV and TB. This medical unit is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Brazilian Medical Unit

BRAMU specialises in neglected tropical diseases, such as dengue and Chagas, and other infectious diseases. This medical unit is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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MSF Medical Guidelines

Our medical guidelines are based on scientific data collected from MSF’s experiences, the World Health Organization (WHO), other renowned international medical institutions, and medical and scientific journals.

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Manson Unit

The Manson Unit is a London, UK-based team of medical specialists who provide medical and technical support, and conduct research for MSF.

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Epicentre

Providing epidemiological expertise to underpin our operations, conducting research and training to support our goal of providing medical aid in areas where people are affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or excluded from health care.

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Evaluation Units

Evaluation Units have been established in Vienna, Stockholm, and Paris, assessing the potential and limitations of medical humanitarian action, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of our medical humanitarian work.

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LGBTQI+ Inclusion in Health Settings

MSF works with LGBTQI+ populations in many settings over the last 25-30 years. LGBTQI+ people face healthcare disparities with limited access to care and higher disease rates than the general population.

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LUXOR

The Luxembourg Operational Research (LuxOR) unit coordinates field research projects and operational research training, and provides support for documentation activities and routine data collection.

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MSF Academy for Healthcare

To upskill and provide training to locally-hired MSF staff in several countries, MSF has created the MSF Academy for Healthcare.

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Humanitarian Law

This Guide explains the terms, concepts, and rules of humanitarian law in accessible and reader-friendly alphabetical entries.

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MSF Paediatric Days

The MSF Paediatric Days is an event for paediatric field staff, policy makers and academia to exchange ideas, align efforts, inspire and share frontline research to advance urgent paediatric issues of direct concern for the humanitarian field.

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MSF Foundation

The MSF Foundation aims to create a fertile arena for logistics and medical knowledge-sharing to meet the needs of MSF and the humanitarian sector as a whole.

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DNDi

A collaborative, patients’ needs-driven, non-profit drug research and development organisation that is developing new treatments for neglected diseases, founded in 2003 by seven organisations from around the world.

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MSF Speaking Out

Level 2 Course: How does Speaking Out Articulate with MSF’s Working Humanitarian principles?

This is an advanced course on the Speaking Out Case Studies. It goes beyond the Level 1 course, asking you to analyse the dilemmas in depth and contribute your thoughts through a series of knowledge checks. The Level 2 course focuses on enhancing reflection and analysis skills that can be transferred to contemporary contexts. 

Following from the Level 1 course, this Level 2 course uses the Speaking Out Case Study: "MSF and the War in Former Yugoslavia 1991-2003." New materials and concepts are introduced in the more advanced Level 2 course. If you have not completed the Level 1 course, please do so regardless of your experience or responsibility.

The humanitarian principles thematic for the Level 2 course includes concepts such as: 

  • Instrumentalisation, diversion, and politicisation of humanitarian aid.
  • Obtaining, grounding, and adapting speaking out strategies based on credible and authentic data. 
  • Reflection on the (ir)relevance of humanitarian principles going forward.
  • Examination of speaking out through the lens of calling for national inquiries by state actors. 

The Learning Journey

What you need to know before starting the course.

Contents presented in 6 modules :

  1. Introduction to the course
  2. Case study on Gorazde 
  3. Reflections on humanitarian principles & concepts
  4. The (ir)relevance of humanitarian principles & international humanitarian law today 
  5. Speaking out through the lens of calling for national inquiries by state actors: an examination
  6. Quiz/feedback/credentialing

6 to 10 hours
 

  • The topics are complex so plan to work over several sessions instead of all at once
  • The course offers multimedia and interactive approaches or you can download the module for offline work, however, this will suppress the interactivity
  • Knowledge checks and evaluations must be completed to proceed
  • A learning journal is provided with reflection questions
  • Suggested readings are provided at the end of each section if you want to explore particular topics further
  • Please complete all Level 2 course modules listed above
  • A quiz score of 70% or better is required
  • Upon completion of the quiz and the course evaluation / feedback, you will be able to download your certificate / badge

By the end of the Level 2 course, you should gain the following competencies:

Knowledge Competencies:

  1. Examine the concept of Speaking Out to the imperative to speak out based on humanitarian principles
  2. Examine Speaking out in MSF and the normative international framework for humanitarian action including international law
  3. Analyze how far humanitarian principles and ethics are compromised while formulating critical approaches to speaking out
  4. Examine the (ir)relevance of humanitarian principles and the normative international framework for today’s analysis and operations

Skills Competencies:

  1. Ability to base speaking out on critical reflection, as discursive and constructive engagement with humanitarian dilemmas
  2. Apply critical thinking & leadership skills to real-life contemporary dilemmas
  3. Ensure speaking out is grounded in experience and based on evidence (with the acknowledgement that evidence is not positive or incontrovertible), where the methodology is explicit and set in specific political and historical context
  4. Compare and apply the concepts and dilemmas learned in this module to contemporary crises and contexts
  5. Apply critical thinking skills to the working humanitarian principles of accountability and speaking out with regards to state power

How to enrol

All students - internal and external - must register on TEMBO, the MSF learning platform, in order to access courses. Click on the button below to access the platform.

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