The Anti-Racism TIC project: Building awareness and Changing Practices

The Anti-Racism TIC project: Creating Awareness and Changing Practices aims to increase anti-racism awareness and embed anti-racism practices into how MSF operates.

Created in 2021 under the Transformational Investment Capacity (TIC) as an initiative from MSF Canada together with other 7 co-sponsoring entities in response to the acknowledgment that MSF is not immune to racism and there is, in fact, structural racism in the organization, many factors led the project's creation, one of the most prominent, besides the BLM movement, was the 2020 Open letter signed by over 1000 staff denouncing the institutional racism and the lack of commitment and accountability from leadership to address this and the urgent need to embed anti-racist practices all across MSF.

For this reason, the Anti-Racism TIC Project was conceptualized as a project that seeks to offer staff across MSF the tools to understand, listen, and take action without placing the burden of awareness or education on our colleagues of color.

The project aims to provide resources to all staff to begin or continue their AR journey, understanding that we are all responsible for moving from being non-racist to being actively anti-racist.

We work towards enhancing a real change, beyond MSF’s work and into our lives.

Practically, the project aims:

• Provide guidance for an anti-racism journey
• Build or strengthen capacity to engage in conversations about racism and anti-racism
• Support colleagues develop plans to take action
• Embed a cross-sectional, sustainable, anti-racism praxis throughout MSF