Before, during and after an emergency

• MdM provides rapid response to natural disasters due to its existing presence in the area through its long-term programmes

Examples : tsunami in Indonesia in 2006, earthquake in Peru in 2007, cholera
epidemic in Zimbabwe in 2008

• >> MdM stays in the field, even when the emergency is no longer covered by the media, working on long-term development programmes

Examples : Afghanistan, Kosovo, Rwanda

Support to national health systems for sustainable change

• DRC - Support to the Tanganyika health district (> 120 government health centres) : by training healthcare actors, involving the community and supporting community organisations Population benefiting from this project : 730 911 people

• Niger - Application of the new decree on user fee exemption for pregnant women and children under five in one pilot district

• Haiti - MdM programme supporting victims of violence; gave rise to a National Strategy againts Violence Against Women in January 2006.

• Pakistan - In 2009, based on the pilot project initially planned for 7 centres, the programme scaled-up to 35 reception centres for women victims of domestic violence and will continue to promote the involvement of civil society in existing activities.

Capacity building for health care personnel

Ongoing theoretical and practical training, with work shadowing and close supervision based on the principle of non-substitution :

•  Madagascar - Training of prison nurses on primary health care

•  Ethiopia/Axum - Training for rural medical assistants on obstetrical and surgical treatments Support to training centres for health professionals :

• Liberia - Support to a nursing college in Phebe

Decentralisation of the health care supply closer to the communities

• Zimbabwe - Health services brought to the first care entry level (home visits)

• Liberia - Continuum of community to hospital care (strengthening the links between communities and health services) and the introduction of a complete package of activities, including mental health an d PMTCT+.

Building partnerships and capacity building for local NGOs

Support to many local independent NGOs to carry on the programmes launched by MDM :

•  DUGA in Bosnia
• MESAD in Cote d’Ivoire
• KAD in Guinea
• MDS in Salvador
• TADEPA in Tanzania

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