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.

What is the purpose of this handbook?

There is growing consensus around the need for appropriate MHPSS coordination and there are many strong examples of effective MHPSS coordination in emergency settings around the world.

This handbook outlines consensus-based guidance for members and facilitators of MHPSS TWGs and actors working at country level. It identifies the ingredients for effective coordination by building on good practices from past emergencies and provides tools and useful resources.

Handbook of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Coordination

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.

Emergency

MHPSS Coordination in Emergencies

The Mapping and Assessment (M&A) Report Repository is a searchable collection of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) needs assessments, mappings, and desk reviews that have been conducted in humanitarian settings. 

Marcio Gagliato

Mapping and Assessment Report Repository

The Repository of Scalable Psychological Interventions for Humanitarian Settings aims to improve access to evidence-based, psychological intervention manuals for use in humanitarian settings and contexts of adversity, that non-specialists can effectively deliver.

Ananda Galappatti

Repository of Scalable Psychological Interventions for Humanitarian Settings

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).

Community-Based Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Resource Collection

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

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 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). 