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Experience has shown that coordinated needs assessments brings significant benefits and helps save more lives and restore more livelihoods. Along with emergency preparedness, the timeliness and quality of assessments help determine an effective, needs-based humanitarian response.

This document is targeting protection programme managers working at national and sub-national level in low and middle income countries and protection cluster coordinators (and coordinators of the five specific areas within the Cluster)  in government, UN and non-UN international organisations and local NGO protection programmes.

The guidelines set forth standards to enable humanitarian actors to plan, establish and coordinate a set of minimum multisectoral responses to protect and improve the mental health and psychosocial well-being of people in the midst of an emergency. The guidelines are designed for all actors engaged in humanitarian assistance. In an emergency situation it is important that aid workers recognize that people are affected by emergencies in different ways.