Non-profit Organization
Jordan - Amman
10-49 Employees
Médecins Sans Frontières is an international independent medical-humanitarian organization, which offers assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters and to victims of armed conflict, without discrimination and irrespective of race, religion, creed or political affiliation. The MSF movement is built around five operational directorates supported by MSF’s 21 sections, 24 associations and other offices together worldwide. MSF OCBA is one of those directorates. The operations are implemented by field teams and the mission coordination teams; together with the organizational units based in Barcelona, Athens and decentralised in Nairobi, Dakar and Amman. The field operations are guided and supported by 4 Operational Cells, the Emergency Unit and other departments supporting operations MSF OCBA has set up its Middle East Unit based in Amman. The Unit comprises 1) the regional cell for the Middle East, which provides operational and technical support to MSF OCBA’s medical and humanitarian programs in Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and -- from the second half of 2017 –Yemen; 2) the Amman Center for Humanitarian Medicine, a center of operational research and training that will strengthen the operational capacity of medical actors in the Middle East and will also host some technical referents. The Center for Humanitarian Medicine will offer the space for MSF staff, staff from national and international NGOs, medics, staff from ministries of health and researchers to gather and work together promoting innovation and collaboration in the field of humanitarian medicine. The Center will develop four types of activities: training, operational research, support to innovation and will serve as a convention center, and will also use the findings and results from all activities for advocacy at all levels.