Consultancy - External Training

Consultancy - External Training Announcement

Médecins du Monde (MdM) France is an international medical organization, which has been present in the Palestinian territory since 1995. It operates in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank (WB) through offices located in Jerusalem, Bir Zeit, and Nablus.

Location: West Bank

Context Background

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, 0MdM 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”.

The MHPSS ER implemented by the MdM Consortium represents the Result 1 of the programme entitled: “The MHPSS needs of affected Palestinian individuals and communities experiencing critical occupation-related incidents are addressed in a timely manner in the targeted areas of the West Bank”. The MHPSS ER aims at providing emergency MHPSS to Palestinians living in a coercive environment, marked by increased human rights violations due to SV, demolitions and other consequences of the decisions made by the ICA and the Israeli forces’ excessive use of force, both at individual and community level, to allow them to cope with the coercive environment they live in, which is inducing a persistent context of fear, due to a permanent risk of violence. MdM Chapters – MdM-FR, MdM-ES and MdM-CH, work together as an MdM Consortium, to provide emergency MHPSS to people affected by critical occupation-related incidents, in line with the MdM’s MHPSS ER protocol of intervention. The MHPSS ER services provided by MdM encompass the provision of emergency MHPSS to people in need in the immediate aftermath of critical occupation-related incidents, including Psychological First Aid (PFA) and Basic Psychosocial Support, the provision of group and individual Problem Management Plus (PM+) or group and individual counselling and referrals to external actors for specialized mental health services as well as for multisectoral support based on the needs identified. The programme was designed to complement the action of the WBPC and is implemented in close coordination with the Protection and Health Clusters and the MHPSS Technical Working Groups at central and at governorate level. The three MdM Chapters also work with an array of local and international partners across the WB, providing specialized mental health services and multisectoral support through tailored referral pathways, to respond to the overall impact that occupation-related incidents have on mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of communities. Finally, MdM also works with a large network of community focal points. The MHPSS ER programme is implemented in the eleven governorates of the WB with a geographical division of the covered area between the three MdM Chapters. MdM-FR covers the North of the WB, MdM-ES the central region and MdM-CH the South of the WB. They all apply the same intervention protocols.

Details on the areas covered by each MdM Chapter:

• MdM France: Jenin, Tulkarem, Qalqilya, Salfit, Tubas, Nablus, North of Ramallah.
• MdM Spain: Middle and South Ramallah, Jerusalem E1, Jericho.
• MdM Switzerland: East Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron.

If you have related experience and interested please CLICK HERE  to check the tender document

Qualified Candidates are invited to send their  Training proposal  and a one-page cover letter in English, by      e-mail to [email protected]

Please reference the job title as NB/ MHPSS ER WITH CHILDREN /2024 in the subject line of your e-mail.

Deadline for receiving the application is 25 of December  2024

MdM will review the CVs upon its reception on a rolling basis and will recruit the qualified one as soon as the suitable candidate is identified, without distinction ethnic background or gender.

Please note that MdM will contact only pre-selected candidates and by email.

We thank all candidates for their interest in a position with MdM