Medact’s Organisational Strategy 2025–2030: How we grow
Organising is an approach to systems change that focuses on building collective power, founded on deep relationships of solidarity and led by the people most affected by injustice. It is an approach that influences work in all of our Priority Areas, and is fundamental to our success in shifting power into the hands of communities most impacted by health inequity, including those in the health community who experience these harms.
We recognise the vital contribution the health community brings to struggles for justice, the responsibility we have to stand with people facing health inequity, and our particularly powerful positionality in advocating for changes to harmful systems. However, whilst we recognise this social power, we know that in isolation our voice can serve to reinforce, rather than dismantle, the systems that drive health inequity. Therefore, since the publication of our previous strategy, Medact has shifted from primarily using the voice of the health community to achieve change to a focus on organising alongside communities that are most impacted by health inequity.
Whilst organising has a deep and rich history across social movements, it is equally a new approach to many people across Medact’s movement. We are committed to integrating organising across our Priority Areas and supporting members to bring these approaches into their work.
We will:
- Integrate organising across all Priority Areas, developing organising strategies for each
- Expand our organising team, ensuring every Priority Area has an Organiser alongside a Campaign & Programme Lead
- Offer organising training, skills and peer support to members and other people across the wider health justice movement
- Celebrate our successes and support members to recognise the contribution of organising to this work, doing more to platform the work happening across our movement and hold up our wins
- Build relationships of solidarity and mutual aid with allies across the world, connecting approaches, learning from each other and taking an internationalist approach to our work wherever possible
