Doctors Without Borders

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June 2023 - In 2023, approximately 332 million people across the world are in need of humanitarian assistance and protection in part due to ongoing conflicts, natural disasters, and disease outbreaks. In response to the unprecedented level of humanitarian needs, GAC’s humanitarian assistance is providing predictable, multi-year, multi-country support to longstanding partners in protracted humanitarian contexts globally. With GAC’s support, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) helps provide assistance to address the urgent needs of up to 5,544,000 beneficiaries from 2024 to 2027. This project focuses on providing access to primary and secondary healthcare, including the provision of sexual and reproductive health services in countries where MSF are operating, specifically in approximately 6 countries affected by conflict, situations of violence and other emergencies each year. Country-level interventions is implemented through a global program that allows a greater overall coherence and visibility of sectoral results achieved. Countries of implementation are selected on a yearly basis and in consultation with GAC, with priority given to extreme health crisis in countries experiencing protracted conflict such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At least half of the budget is directed towards humanitarian crises in Sub-Saharan Africa. To ensure that MSF is able to act quickly and effectively respond when humanitarian emergencies occur, MSF dedicates funding to responding to unforeseen crises in any country in which MSF operates and for which MSF is capable of accepting institutional funding. The release of funding to emergency operations is done in consultation with GAC, recognizing the need for a balance between a timely response and accountability of funding and decision-making. Project activities include: (1) providing at least 4,000,000 primary healthcare consultations to vulnerable populations; (2) providing approximately 765,000 patients with sexual and reproductive healthcare services; (3) providing disease case management in areas of response; (4) providing malnutrition screening and therapeutic feeding care to children under the age of 5; and (5) distributing non-food item kits including bed nets, and sanitation supplies, specifically targeting pregnant and lactating women, and children under the age of 5.