This manual aims to facilitate IOM MHPSS experts and managers and partners in designing, implementing and evaluating community-based MHPSS programmes, projects and activities for emergency-affected and displaced populations in humanitarian settings. It consists of 16 chapters and two annexes covering: theories, describing processes (e.g. training, technical supervision, assessment and community mobilization), instructing on how to organize activities (e.g. sport and art-based activities, community-based supports for people with severe mental disorders), and tackling the operational dimension of linking MHPSS to other sectors, like protection, conflict transformation and livelihood support.  It provides links and references to wider resources. 

Chapter 9 focuses on non-formal education and informal learning.


IOM Manual on Community-Based Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergencies and Displacement 

Manual on Community-Based Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergencies and Displacement 

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

Community-Based MHPSS

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).