Expression of interest to provide community-based mental health and psycho-social support services in vulnerable communities

As part of this project, ACTED will support a number of local non-governmental, civil society, and/or community based organizations, with prior experience in the provision of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) services, through organizational capacity building, as well as thematic and technical trainings aiming at strengthening the organizations’ capacity to provide focused non-specialized community-based MHPSS services and to provide access to such services for some of the most hard-to-reach and marginalized community members. In so doing, the selected local organizations are expected to closely coordinate with the Ministry of Social Affairs (MoSA) affiliated Social Development Centers (SDCs) and their social workers in particular, as part of the wider ACTED strategy to create synergies and complementarity between SDCs and local civil society actors as a key entry point for getting out of the purely clinical approach to mental health service provision and instead strengthen the systems of low threshold informal community care, prevention and self-care.