Essential medicines are those that satisfy the priority health care needs of a population. They are selected with due regard to disease prevalence and public health relevance, evidence of efficacy and safety and comparative cost-effectiveness. They are intended to be available in functioning health systems at all times, in appropriate dosage forms, of assured quality and at prices individuals and health systems can afford.

WHO Model List of Essential Medicines 22nd list, 2021

WHO Model List of Essential Medicines

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

Programme Implementation

Mental Health Integration into Primary Health Care

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

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).

Ananda Galappatti

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). 