Global Action Plan on Mental Health consultancy

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• Provide the technical and communication support to implement contact-based interventions co-created by individuals with lived experience to address and reduce stigma related to mental health.
• Provide the technical support and planning for developing and integrating an educational module on mental health into the curriculum of the students at journalism schools/universities to help improve mental health literacy among journalists/media reporters and build their capacities and skills in regard to the responsible media reporting on mental health, and addressing the stigma associated to mental illness.
• Support the implementation of a regional media monitoring tool for the responsible reporting on suicide in the EMR.
• Draft a technical report and a policy brief to examine the context of stigma related to mental health in the EMR, legal instruments and processes that are in place for preventing mental health stigmatization and assess the effectiveness of the various stigma-reduction activities/initiatives conducted at the regional and country levels, as implemented by WHO, Ministries, sister agencies and community organizations.
• Support the regional and country-level initiatives and partnerships with sister UN agencies and EMRO programmes that aim at strengthening effective leadership and governance for mental health through empowering, engaging with and building alliances with national stakeholders including civil society organizations (CSOs), organizations of PWLE and their caregivers.
• Map the civil society and community-based organizations that are active in the area of MNS in the Member States of EMR
• Maintain and regularly update the database of the active CSOs in the Member states of EMR and support the continuous engagement with these organizations.
• Coordinate the process of setting up and maintaining a Regional Mental Health Coalition Platform to help leverage and support the community-based mental health initiatives, programmes and advocacy activities implemented at a country level and strengthen networking and knowledge sharing among non-governmental organizations.
• Report on and showcase the key success stories, lessons learnt, meetings, events and any other relevant outcomes as generated by the coalition for dissemination on the coalition’s website, WHO/EMRO website and other global and regional platforms.

• Essential: Master’s degree in public health.
• Mental health and/or relevant social sciences qualification is desirable.

• Essential: years’ experience in mental health and substance use programming. International experience is mandatory in case consultancy is international.
• Good knowledge of WHO strategic documents, guidelines, and standards in the area of mental health and substance use is desirable.

• Ability to rapidly gather and consolidate information from multiple sources.
• Excellent writing skills and ability to produce documentation to a high standard.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; culturally and socially sensitive; ability to work in a multicultural environment.
• Ability to work and adapt professionally and effectively in a challenging environment; ability to perform efficiently under work pressure and actively work towards continuing personal learning and development.

• Excellent knowledge of English & Arabic language.

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