Equipe de travail sur la Sante Mentale et le Support Psychosocial

Crisis can be a vehicle for change and an opportunity for the development of sustainable solutions. Building on the humanitarian response to the Syrian crisis and despite the political instability, the Ministry of Public Health in Lebanon in partnership with the World Health Organisation, UNICEF and International Medical Corps and in collaboration with all actors on the ground has successfully established a National Mental Health Programme. In 2015, one year after its establishment, the programme launched the first national strategy for mental health and substance use to reform the mental health system in the country and to coordinate the mental health and psychosocial support response for the Syrian crisis. This reform was successfully initiated through inter-sectoral collaboration and coordination between all stakeholders and through the merging of the humanitarian and development agendas".