Assessment of MdM’s Mental Health and Psychosocial Emergency...

SUBJECT: Assessment of the Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Emergency Response (MHPSS ER), a programme implemented by a Consortium of three MdM Chapters: MdM France (MdM-FR), the Consortium Lead Organization, MdM Spain (MdM-ES) and MdM Switzerland (MdM-CH), in the West Bank, since the 1st of January 2023. Programme funded by DG ECHO and co-funded by AECID and SDC.

COUNTRY: occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), West Bank (WB).

AUTHOR(S) OF THE TOR: MHPSS Coordinators and MHPSS ER Consortium Programme Manager.

DRAFTED ON: July 2024

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CONTEXT

ORIGIN OF THE REQUEST

The assessment of the MHPSS Emergency Response implemented by the MdM Consortium composed of the three MdM Chapters: MdM-FR (lead), MdM-ES and MdM-CH, in the West Bank, was added to the programme as one of the activities, in the programme modification that was submitted early 2024 and approved by DG ECHO in April 2024. This request came from the programme team who was willing to assess the continued relevance and effectiveness of the intervention, to adapt it to the changing context, and to meet the evolving needs of the affected population.  The dynamic context observed in the West Bank throughout 2023 and into early 2024, following the program’s launch on January 1, 2023, has significantly influenced the quality of the support provided.

BRIEF PRESENTATION OF THE PROGRAMME

MdM has been working in the oPt since 1996, implementing health activities in the Gaza Strip and in the eleven governorates of the WB. MdM’s programme in the oPt, implemented by three MdM Chapters - MdM-FR, MdM-ES and MdM-CH, aims at fostering access to quality medical and MHPSS services, through both, responding to emergencies and strengthening local capacities, to ensure that health and protection systems can sustainably meet the needs of the populations. MdM works in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH), Health and Protection Clusters, MHPSS Technical Working Groups at central and at governorate level, local and international partners and the supported communities. MdM relies on its technical expertise, its knowledge of the context and its experience working in the oPt to ensure providing tailored quality MHPSS and medical services to people in need.

In 2012, MdM-FR started implementing MHPSS ER interventions in the WB in coordination with the Protection Cluster, following occupation-related incidents involving settler violence (SV), Israeli forces’ excessive use of force, displacement of populations, demolitions, and other consequences of the decisions made by the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA). This featured providing emergency MHPSS to affected people, managing cases, and referring people in need to other service providers, including to local authorities, to the Protection Cluster and to the West Bank Protection Consortium (WBPC). In the last five years, MdM-CH has expanded the MHPSS ER in East Jerusalem through establishing partnerships with community-based organizations to support ex-detainee children and adolescents. From June 2021 to the 31st of December 2022, MdM Chapters deployed the MHPSS ER in the WB, in area B and C, under the umbrella of the WBPC. They provided emergency MHPSS to people in need and made referrals to specialized mental health services, as well as to different partners for multisectoral support, thereby ensuring complementarity with the services of the WBPC. Building on this first response, MdM developed its MHPSS ER programme further in January 2023 with the start of the MHPSS ER programme implemented by the MdM Consortium formed by the three MdM Chapters.

Funded by DG ECHO and co-funded by the Spanish Agency for International Development and Cooperation (AECID), the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and MdM core and private funds, the MHPSS ER programme implemented by MdM in the WB started on the 1st of January 2023 and is expected to end on the 30th of June 2025. Entitled “Reinforce the protection and enhance the resilience of Palestinian individuals and communities, affected by critical occupation related events, through health crisis management and preparedness and emergency mental health and psychosocial response across the West Bank”, this programme aims at reaching the following objectives:

Principal Objective: “Contribute to mitigate and alleviate the impact of critical occupation related incidents on the health and wellbeing of Palestinian men, women, boys, and girls across the West Bank”.

Specific Objective: “Prevent, mitigate and respond to the mental health impact that critical occupation-related incidents have on communities, men, women, boys and girls in the targeted areas of the West Bank”.

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