Establishing Coordination of Intersectoral Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
Coordinating relief efforts entails minimizing the duplication of humanitarian services, whether by filling gaps or preventing overlap, and ensuring various organizations are synchronized to work together to achieve a common objective, thereby enabling a more coherent, effective, and efficient response. In relation to MHPSS coordination mechanisms, please refer to IASC MHPSS Guidelines action sheet 1.1 (page 33-37), and the IASC MHPSS Reference Group at mhpss.refgroup@gmail.com
Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings
This document is endorsed by more than 35 organizations involved in humanitarian assistance. It provides essential guidance for multi-sector responses to protect and improve people’s mental health and psychosocial well-being in the midst of an emergency, offering an overall framework for MHPSS integration, activities and services in humanitarian settings across different sectors such as health, protection and education. The guidelines call for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support services and activities to be implemented in a way that is coordinated, evidence-based, participatory, integrated, avoids harm and builds on existing resources and capacities, and to organizing a multi-layered system of complementary supports that meets the needs of different groups.
Author: Inter-Agency Standing Committee
Examples of Terms of Reference for MHPSS Coordination, Task Force or Working Groups in Emergencies
Examples of MHPSS Task-Force, Coordination or Working Group for different contexts.
The Implementation of Humanitarian Programme Cycle Version 2.0
The humanitarian programme cycle (HPC) is a coordinated series of actions undertaken to help prepare for, manage and deliver humanitarian response. It consists of five elements coordinated in a seamless manner, with one step logically building on the previous and leading to the next. Successful implementation of the humanitarian programme cycle is dependent on effective emergency preparedness, effective coordination with national/local authorities and humanitarian actors, and information management.
Author: IASC
Step-by-Step Practical Guide for Humanitarian Needs Overviews, Humanitarian Response Plans and Updates
This document provides practical, step-by-step guidance on how to organise the collaboration among the several stakeholders to prepare joint inter-sectorial needs analysis, including for the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) and response plans and updates, including the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP). This guide complements the IASC Humanitarian Programme Cycle.
