ALIMA’s projects are varied, from an emergency presence and surgery right after Haiti’s earthquake in January 2010 to the treatment of cholera epidemics or malnutrition. ALIMA also sets up research projects, such as precise data collecting aiming at validating or not a type of operational answer. The common features of these actions lay in the employed approach.

ALIMA allows expertise transfer by a close partnership with local organizations. Thanks to its humanitarian experience, ALIMA creates links and synergies between complementary actors that do not necessary know each other. ALIMA actively contributes to the medical innovation by encouraging and participating in operational research; it openly ambitions to elaborate new observation strategies in humanitarian intervention.

Transfer of skills

ALIMA is an incubator for national humanitarian NGOs in developing countries.  We build joint projects with national humanitarian NGOs with the objective of transferring skills so that they can ultimately manage the projects they implement on their own.

Creating synergies

ALIMA is a facilitator for networking various humanitarian participants.  Many humanitarian participants are compartmentalised in their respective areas of intervention.  Our projects are developed systematically within the framework of partnership between different participants in order to bring together participants with complementary facets that can prove crucial for the patients.

Operational Research

ALIMA is a developer of operational research projects in order to implement medical innovations and new intervention strategies.  Medical progress in the poorest countries means that existing technical resources need to be adapted to the severe constraints of the least developed countries.  We build projects that aim to validate intervention methods and innovative products by research and scientific certification.