AMAR works to recover and to sustain professional services in medicine, public health, education and basic need provision within refugee and other communities living under stress in war zones or in areas of civil disorder and disruption.

Modus Operandi:

• To build professional local capacity.
• To test standards against relevant UN agencies, notably WHO, UNESCO and UNHCR.
• To act as UN partners.
• To teach and disseminate best practice through in-service training, external courses and conferences.
• To develop models of work and replicate these through our own or other agencies.
• To spread knowledge of local needs outside the regions affected.
• To tailor costs to local economies.
• To purchase locally in order to improve the local economy.
• To use local staff and skills from our areas of operation to expand the work into other countries or regions.
• To work closely with host governments.
• To help create a peaceful environment.
• To promote relevant dialogue and to be involved in dialogue implementation.

Key Activities:

To achieve the mission statement and modus operandi through carrying out any or all of the following activities working closely with the host governments:

• Primary health care provision through fixed or mobile clinics.
• Health prevention in the communities served.
• Laboratory facilities.
• Secondary health care and tertiary referrals.
• Public health programmes.
• Water treatment, including clean water supplies and waste water.
• Hygiene and the public environment.
• Primary and secondary schooling, including books, timetables and exams.
• Tertiary scholarships and postgraduate programmes.
• Finding, repairing or building and equipping suitable structures for the programmes (e.g. schools, clinics, sewage and clean water plants).
• Creating, training and resourcing appropriate local professional teams to carry out these tasks.
• Developing and teaching other job creation programmes such as fish farming, agriculture, sewing and tailoring, building and roadwork, information technology.
• Establishing and running training courses, conferences and lectures.