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Operational Guidelines for Community MHPSS in Humanitarian Settings: Three-Tiered Support

Learn why new operational guidelines were developed, their structure, intended audience, and how to access them. Understand the theory of change, community engagement, case studies, and more. Access the guidelines and associated materials.

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Operational Guidelines for Community MHPSS in Humanitarian Settings: Three-Tiered Support

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  1. Introduction to the Operational Guidelines Operational Guidelines on Community based mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian settings:Three-tiered support for children and families An orientation to the field test version

  2. To Understand: • Why new guidelines have been developed • What these guidelines are (and what they aren’t) • What the process for development looked like • Who is the intended audience • How the guidelines structured • How to access the guidelines and associated material • What is included in the rest of the orientation package Objectives for this Module

  3. A Few Initial Questions to Consider…

  4. …and how have those challenges changed and shifted over the past few decades?

  5. What lessons have you learned in your own work about the best ways to promote wellbeing and resilience among children in crisis settings?

  6. UNICEF, Inter-Agency Guide to the Evaluation of Psychosocial Programming in Emergencies, United Nations Children’s Fund, New York, 2011.

  7. Dr. Michael Ungar, in Hague Symposium Report, 2015

  8. Why develop new guidelines? 

  9. 3 Reasons

  10. The Guidelines

  11. An Introduction to the Guidelines by Zeinab Hijazi UNICEF Mental Health & Psychosocial Support SpecialistAccess the video here

  12. Process for Development • Proposed by UNICEF in IASC MHPSS RG meeting 2015 • Development of first draft Presentation to UNICEF NY HQ stakeholders Conference calls for buy-in and input by UNICEF field staff • Development of second draft Compendium and case study development • Review by UNICEF working group & IASC RG Community-based PS working group members • Field testing 2018/2019 • Revisions and Finalization 2020 • Launch 2020

  13. What These Guidelines AREN’T

  14. What These Guidelines ARE

  15. Audience

  16. How are the guidelines structured?

  17. Understanding Community Based MHPSS The Social Ecological Model: Three Tiers of Support MHPSS theory of change Operationalizing Community Based MHPSS: A Framework • 9 Circles of Support • Implementing Activities within the Framework • Monitoring and Evaluation • Community Engagement Participation and Mobilization Annexes 1. Three case studies: South Sudan, Nepal, Lebanon 2. What Other Actors Can Do – Action Sheets from IASC Guidelines for MHPSS in Emergency Settings 3. UNICEF Key Commitments, Frameworks and Minimum Standards 4. UNICEF Community Based MHPSS log frame 5. Scalable Interventions 6. The Evolving Humanitarian Context: Resilience Strengthening Responses 7. Entry points for MHPSS in the Humanitarian Programme Cycle at UNICEF Compendium of Resouces

  18. How to access the guidelines and associated material

  19. How to access the guidelines and associated material • Download the UNICEF Operational Guidelines on CB-MHPSS, and accompanying orientation material (coming soon) now available on MHPSS.net viathis link. • Access the dedicatedgroup on MHPSS.net that includes the resources in its associated compendium. • Access the Feedback form for field testing here (link available soon) • Files/links for the future printing of the MHPSS Operational Guidelines: MHPSS - PRINT COVER Spreads + Spine x-1a.pdf- this is one page of outside cover spread with built-in spine text for “perfect binding” (not saddle stitched which uses staples).  There is no inside cover file as they are intentionally blank. MHPSS - PRINT INTERIOR x-1a.pdf - individual interior pages  • The MHPSS Native Files v2.zip for Country Office translations can be found here

  20. How is this orientation package for the CB MHPSS Operational Guidelines structured?

  21. How is this orientation structured? 1-Introduction to the Guidelines -Why new guidelines? -Overview of the guidelines -Overview of the orientation 2-Theory and Concepts -Community Based MHPSS -The IASC MHPSS Pyramid -The Social Ecological Pyramid -The MHPSS Theory of Change -9 Circles of Support 3-Compendium and Forum on MHPSS.net -Introduction to the Compendium of Resources -Introduction to the MHPSS.net working group 4-Monitoring and Evaluation -The MHPSS Log Frame 5-Adapting Resources -When to Adapt -How to Adapt 6-Community Engagement and Participation -Key steps for Community Engagement 7-Application of the Guidelines -Operational Framework -A Practice Activity 8-Annexes

  22. Questions?

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