The IASC Guidelines is a key reference document for MHPSS in emergencies. It provides essential guidance for multi-sectoral essential minimum responses to protect and improve people’s mental health and psychosocial well-being in emergencies. It offers an overall framework for the integration of MHPSS activities and services in humanitarian settings across different sectors such as health, protection and education. As well as recommending essential minimum responses, it gives guidance on what should be included in a more comprehensive response for each sector.

Detailed recommendations for key actions to strengthen access to safe and supportive education in emergency settings are given in action sheet 7.1 (p148-156).



IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings 

The MHPSS and EiE Toolkit offers access to key documents and resources of relevance to those working in the fields of Education in Emergencies (EiE) and of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS). 

MHPSS and EIE

MHPSS

Guidelines for Programming and Assessment

This toolkit is a compilation of a range of several practice guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) in humanitarian contexts, to enable easy access to key multi-lingual resources.

Marcio Gagliato

Emergency

Ananda Galappatti

The IASC Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for MHPSS Programmes was released for field test in 2017. In 2021, the Common Framework was updated to include qualitative and quantitative means of verification (MoV) for impact-level indicators in the framework. MHPSS.net developed the IASC MHPSS M&E Framework MoV toolkit to accompany the framework and serve as a resource to maintain and disseminate these tools in a single, easy to use format.

IASC MHPSS M&E FRAMEWORK MOV

The Children and Families MHPSS Resource Collection offers access to a wide range of key materials that are relevant to mental health and psychosocial support work with children and families across humanitarian and development settings.

The Children and Families Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Resource Collection

This collection offers access to key guidance, manuals, tools, case studies and other resources related to the use of Community-Based approaches to Mental Health and psychosocial Support (CB-MHPSS).