New MHPSS Guidance Endorsed

The IASC Operational Policy and Advocacy Group (OPAG) endorsed three tools produced by the IASC Reference Group on Mental Health And Psychosocial Support In Emergency Settings (MHPSS RG):

IASC Minimum Service Package Mental Health and Psychosocial Support

The MHPSS MSP is an easy-to-follow intersectoral package, which spells out the activities and actions that all humanitarian actors should put in place in all emergencies for an effective MHPSS response. It speaks to different actors at the global, regional, national, and local levels to plan, coordinate and implement an effective MHPSS response.

Handbook of MHPSS coordination:

The Handbook of MHPSS Coordination provides standard guidance on how to best to support well-coordinated and multisectoral MHPSS responses that are predictable, accountable, equitable, efficient and effective.

IASC Guidance, Suicide Prevention in Humanitarian Emergencies:

This new guidance aims to support programme implementers, coordinators and others in humanitarian settings in their actions to counter suicide and self-harm in humanitarian contexts and to save lives.