Mandate and Mission
Find out about the purpose, objectives and activities of the SDC Health Network.
The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) Health Network brings together SDC staff from country offices and headquarters (Berne, Switzerland), as well as implementing partners and actors from other organisations around the world that are active in health cooperation, or in strengthening health systems, fostering greater equality in the access to health-related goods and services and/or progressing towards Universal Health Coverage, with a focus on lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
The SDC Health Network is primarily a platform to support the implementation of SDC interventions in health cooperation. The platform is, however, also key in capturing, processing and sharing knowledge and experiences, including results and key lessons, between colleagues, partners and other actors, from global to local levels. This includes, but is not limited to, programmatic and policy experience, bilateral and multilateral (Swiss) cooperation programmes, humanitarian aid activities, global initiative partner activities, and Swiss-based stakeholders and NGOs active in health.
Our mission
- Facilitate exchange of experiences between countries and regions for positioning and advocating the relevance of health in poverty reduction.
- Provide access to resources and technical expertise by using lessons learned to improve our work, developing incentives and stimulate innovations.
- Foster field-field exchange among practitioners, and network communication, sharing knowledge between SDC units and partners who likely know «how it works», and thereby seek synergies with other SDC thematic networks and communities of practice.
- Provide easy access to information on international debates on relevant health issues.
- Facilitate informed advice for Swiss/SDC positions at board, institutional and technical level meetings.
- Coordinate and foster communication and collaboration on health programmes between operational fieldwork and decision-makers in Parliament.
- Offer guidance and promote exchange on priorities in health and on positioning SDC/Switzerland in international and global health debates.
Our activities
The Health Network publishes quarterly newsletters about health initiatives, projects, and events both from SDC and its partners, with contributions from Health Network members. In addition, we publish News Briefs whenever there is relevant news to be shared.
The network also creates opportunities to discuss the latest developments and trends in the health domain, through online and face-to-face events.
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