14. June 2022 – 1.30pm-4.30pm; Juristische Fakultät, Basel

MMS Roundtable, Basel, Tuesday, 14 June 2022, 1.30pm-4.30pm

Bottom-up empowerment: A way to decolonize health cooperation?

Medicus Mundi Switzerland The colonial origins of development cooperation still shape its thinking, structure, and practice today. While many organisations have long described their work not as "aid" but as equal cooperation with partners in the global South, the working practice is still too often based on power structures that entrench dependencies and prevent the development of local resources.