Institutional organization

Founded in 1986 by health professionals, ACODESS is an international non-profit making organization specializing in the provision of technical advice and assistance to MOH,health care services and hospitals in countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia.

Board of directors
ACODESS board of directors is composed of health specialists, from various academic and professional backgrounds, who originate from all service and institutional levels of the French health sector.


Président : Patrick MORDELET
Vice-Président : Antoine RAVELO DE TOVAR
Trésorier : Jean-Pierre COULIER

ACODESS in-house competencies:
ACODESS managerial team is in charge of the monitoring and follow-up of all cooperation programmes.

This team has a large knowledge of countries of various cultures and levels of development, in particular regarding health concerns. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese are spoken fluently and allow project management all over the world. ACODESS team has also gained experience in working with national and international funding organizations (French ministry of Foreign Affairs and of Finances, European Union, Development Banks, World bank).

ACODESS permanent team is managed by

Mrs Elisabeth ANTUNES, General Coordinator.

ACODESS operates under mandates from international and European organizations, or directly from government agencies in the beneficiary countries where we operate.

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Development strategy

ACODESS strength lies in its capacity to mobilise human resources and institutional support from French and European health care system.

ACODESS networking, offering a wide range of skills and academic backgrounds, consists of health experts (senior specialists) from hospitals and health care institutions, including also university hospitals and schools of public health.

ACODESS areas of expertise range through health care management, hospital organization and health planning:

  • Health policy planning and management
  • Health administration and hospital management
  • Public health
  • Medical, nursing care and hygiene skills and procedures
  • Hospital design and medical equipment plans

ACODESS favors in-depth and long-term actions which ensure sustainable development, enabling the beneficiary hospitals and health care services to pursue their own development strategy to respond to the specific health care needs of the local population.

The ACODESS approach is based on joint management and implementation of projects with its foreign partners in order to ensure that projects are kept on course and that its technical expertise is responding to the expressed needs of the beneficiary health institutions. The mutual benefit gained through the sharing of technical and human resources contributes to maximising the effectiveness of the collaboration.

ACODESS operates at various levels of intervention:

  • From needs assessment to project design
  • Provision of technical assistance and consulting services
  • Training of health professionals
  • Technical studies and assessment missions
  • Submission of proposals (international call for tenders)
  • Promotion and research activities (seminars, conferences, publications)

ACODESS cooperation programmes are carried out according to a project management approach, in terms of means and methods, constructed around the following principles:

- appointment of a Project Director, health specialist, in charge of the implementation and follow-up of the technical assistance services provided,
- selection of a team of experts for the whole period of the programme, working under the supervision of the project Director,
- regular analysis of progress, measurement in terms of achievement of outputs and activities performed, refocusing when required, including feeding of additional professional support.

Address:
ACODESS
96, Bd Diderot
75012 Paris France

Metro station: Reuilly-Diderot (Lines n°1 and 8)
Tel.: +33 (0)1 53 44 78 00
Fax: +33 (0)1 40 19 90 96
E-mail: acodess@wanadoo.fr
Opening hours:
from Monday to Friday from 9 am to 1 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm.

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