Mental health & psychosocial support professional development

This project aims at increasing capacities at the two top layers of the MHPSS intervention pyramid, (eg. focused person-to-person and group non-specialized supports and specialized services). The evidence-based interventions herewith proposed, the Psychological First Aid, the Narrative Exposure Therapy and the Group-Interpersonal Therapy, have all been proven to be highly effective in emergency and developing contexts, and could be scalable with adequate supervision and on the job training. In addition, the national systems’ strengthening will be done gradually, through concrete suggestions for the improvement of the data collection, the referral mechanism between the different organizations and institutions and the needs’ assessment report that could inform the future plan of care for survivors of SGBV.