OUR VALUES AND PRINCIPLES
ADVOCACY
GOING BEYOND CARE TO UPHOLD THE DIGNITY OF EACH INDIVIDUAL
We put people at the heart of our work and fight to uphold dignity for all.
We encourage our teams to constantly observe the environment in which we operate in order to understand the reality on the ground, to respond as well as
possible to people’s expectations, and to jointly build our work with them.
Going beyond care, we tackle the causes and strive to treat the system rather than the symptoms, and to improve indecent living conditions which ruin
people’s health..
OUR CORE HUMANITARIAN VALUES
Health above all. Regardless of people’s administrative, social or financial status and regardless of their lifestyle. What matters to us is their health.
Empowering populations. With our local partners, communities and their representatives, we act for and with them to enable them to be real actors in their health and to claim their rights.
OUR PRINCIPLES
- Caring. Guided by medical ethics, based on communities’ needs and in partnership with them, we want to give people real access to health, in all its physical, mental and social forms.
- Bearing witness and advocating. Going beyond outrage and revolt, we call out the intolerable. We act to influence policy decisions and ensure better health protection for individuals and communities. Where necessary, our action extends to the legal field in order to obtain legal and regulatory changes.
- Accompanying social change. We are convinced that any sustainable change requires empowering people to be involved in their health. Users are thus involved in designing, leading and evaluating our programmes.
INDEPENDENCE
We work tirelessly to improve the indecent living conditions that ruin health.
We continue to condemn the mentality that assumes the right to deny access to healthcare.
We fight against policies that turn the healthcare system into a commercial product.
- SHAKING UP THE ESTABLISHED ORDER. In the face of the ongoing cycle of emergencies, with moral, physical, institutional and even political violence, with inertia and indifference, we fight relentlessly to defend a fair and universal healthcare system. To do so, we stand up against the system. We shake it up. We question the world and its failings, without violence but with militancy.
- THE RATIONALE OF EFFECTIVENESS AND QUALITY. Our independence sometimes leads us down unexpected paths. We do not conform to international expectations for action, and we move into areas where our expertise can be useful even when the media, institutions, politicians or the general public do not pay attention.
- WITHOUT COMPROMISE OR CENSORSHIP. We fight our battles without compromise or censorship. Our financial independence allows us to be fully politically independent. And it is because we do not accept conditions on the funding we receive that we retain our freedom.
TRANSPARENCY
OUR APPROACH IS LOCAL, COLLECTIVE AND SUSTAINABLE.
Since the very beginning of Dünya Doktorları/Médecins du Monde Türkiye, our donors have been the guarantors of our independence and have allowed us to act freely in response to need. The bond of trust between us is precious and we are committed to preserving it.
Our financial independence allows us to be fully politically independent.
