STRATEGIC PLAN 2025-2027
TOWARDS MATURITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
Since Dünya Doktorları Derneği (DDD)’s establishment in 2015, our dedicated staff have been providing healthcare services to populations affected by war, displacement, protracted crises and natural disasters both in Türkiye and internationally. Equal and impartial access to healthcare services for all is a core value for us, irrespective of race, religion, ethnicity, sex, or gender. The need for help is the only criterion required to access our services.
In the years since DDD’s establishment, we have partnered with affected populations by adapting operational modalities. This includes adapting to changes in local and national regulations in Türkiye; economic volatility; global epidemics, natural disasters and challenging security environments including bombing campaigns, terrorist attacks and the 2016 coup attempt in Türkiye. As a health actor, the COVID-19 epidemic between 2020 and 2022 was crushing. It increased pressure on already overburdened health systems and our clinics in Türkiye and Syria; disrupted medical supplies, and accelerated staff turnover. The catastrophic February 2023 earthquakes devastated the communities that we service in both Türkiye and Syria, as well as our own colleagues. DDD staff members died in the earthquakes. Staff lost family members and friends; they were made homeless, and yet they continued to respond and provide health services to their communities. Finally, changes and cuts in funding posed further challenges, as our interventions have been almost exclusively dependent on short-term and restricted institutional donors.
At the advent of our 10th birthday in 2025, it is important to reflect on past experiences to inform and enter in a new phase that leads us to maturity and greater sustainability. Despite financial and contextual challenges, we have prioritized strengthening our administrative and operational capacity to be able to comply with strict national and donor regulations. We have proven our institutional development and resilience over the past 10 years, in providing timely and relevant operations in Türkiye and abroad despite the many aforementioned complex operating challenges.
Our strength lies in our ability to quickly adapt to ever changing complex humanitarian and bureaucratic operating environments while ensuring direct on the ground-access to communities that are isolated and in need. We know that trust and acceptance are essential to all our relations and enables our access to communities and to our partners.
As a Turkish aid organization, we are proud of the shared cultural and historical ties with the communities we work with from Central Asia to the Middle East and North Africa. We are committed to expanding our work and improving responses to humanitarian and development challenges. We stand in solidarity with affected populations, and advocate for sustainable and inclusive solutions to humanitarian crisis and development challenges, to decision-makers and the public.
This Strategic Plan 2025-2027 is the conclusion of extensive discussions with staff and beneficiaries which started during the summer 2023, including lessons learned workshops, external consultant organisational study, and exchanges with MdM International Network members. It has also been informed by the more than 40 audits DDD has overseen since 2015. This strategy is divided into five priorities designed to enhance our organizational and financial capacity to expand and respond to the needs of people. It aims to strengthen our identify, formalize our aspirations and provide inspiration and guidance for all organisation members.
As contexts and actions are permanently evolving, a Strategic Progress Review will be conducted on yearly basis, to assess global performance, objectives achievement, and integrate the necessary adjustments.
The Strategic Plan 2025-2027 has been adopted by the Board of Directors on 30 September 2024.
