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The database of innovations catalogues comprehensive summaries of mental health programs and research projects around the world.

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African Youth in Mind

An intervention that is tailored to the needs of youth in Ghana and Zimbabwe.
Region: 
Africa
Population: 
Children and adolescents
Disorder: 
Depression/anxiety/stress-related disorders
377 reads
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MIND ME Africa

Pilot system generating routine process and outcome data in community and primary care settings
Region: 
Africa
Disorder: 
All disorders
1334 reads
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HeartSounds Peer Support

Training service users as peer support workers to deliver at-home outpatient care
Region: 
Africa
Population: 
Adults
Disorder: 
All disorders
2064 reads
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Strengthening Public Mental Health in Africa in Response to Covid-19

The project combines research and capacity development to support the MHPSS response to outbreaks and other public health emergencies in Africa.
Region: 
Africa
Population: 
Maternal and neonatal health
Children and adolescents
Adults
Older adults
Families and carers
Minority populations
Disability
2841 reads
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SPARK: SuPporting African communities to increase the Resilience and mental health of Kids with developmental disorders and their caregivers

Community-based identification of children with developmental disabilities and implementation of the WHO Caregiver Skills Training programme delivered by non-specialists.
Region: 
Africa
Population: 
Maternal and neonatal health
Children and adolescents
Families and carers
Disability
Disorder: 
Child behavioural and developmental disorders
482 reads
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StrongMinds

StrongMinds improves the mental health of low-income and marginalized women and adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa by providing free, group talk therapy delivered by lay community mental health workers.
Region: 
Africa
Population: 
Adults
Disorder: 
Depression/anxiety/stress-related disorders
3447 reads
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Impact evaluation of unconditional cash transfers

Randomized Control Trial of GiveDirectly cash transfers among low-income populations to determine causality between poverty and psychological well-being
Region: 
Africa
Population: 
Adults
Families and carers
Disorder: 
Depression/anxiety/stress-related disorders
1587 reads
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EMERALD

Research consortium focused on mental health scale-up in low- and middle-income countries
Region: 
Africa
Asia
Disorder: 
All disorders
3081 reads
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Open Hands

We run self-care groups, make referrals to specialist services and raise awareness of mental health conditions amongst this community.
Region: 
Africa
Population: 
Minority populations
Disorder: 
All disorders
1392 reads
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Addressing alcohol misuse and mental health comorbidities in humanitarian settings

Problem Management Plus And Alcohol (PM+A) is a brief transdiagnostic intervention addressing alcohol misuse and mental health comorbidities among conflict-affected populations.
Region: 
Africa
Population: 
Humanitarian and conflict health
Disorder: 
Depression/anxiety/stress-related disorders
Alcohol/drug use disorders
1206 reads
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Mental Health and Wellbeing on Campus

Improving the provision of mental health support services in two Kenyan universities.
Region: 
Africa
Population: 
Children and adolescents
Adults
Disability
Disorder: 
Depression/anxiety/stress-related disorders
Alcohol/drug use disorders
Self-harm/suicide
4249 reads
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Early Adolescent Skills for Emotions (EASE): a psychological intervention for young adolescents and their caregivers

EASE is a group psychological intervention delivered by non-specialist providers to improve the mental health of adolescents.
Region: 
Africa
Middle East
Asia
Population: 
Children and adolescents
Disorder: 
All disorders
4974 reads
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The HAPPINESS Project

Training non-specialist health workers through the mhGAP Intervention Guide 2.0 and using tele-medicine to connect them to specialists.
Region: 
Africa
Population: 
Adults
Disorder: 
Epilepsy/seizures
Psychosis/bipolar disorder
Depression/anxiety/stress-related disorders
Alcohol/drug use disorders
1711 reads
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Problem Management Plus (PM+)

Developing and testing a WHO brief, face-to-face, low-intensity, transdiagnostic psychological intervention.
Region: 
Africa
Asia
Disorder: 
Depression/anxiety/stress-related disorders
10176 reads
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Wellbeing and Resilience (WebR): Healing-centered peacebuilding

Healing-centered peacebuilding using a trauma-informed lens with communities and institutions.
Region: 
Africa
Disorder: 
All disorders
1293 reads
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Mainstreaming of Psychosocial Support in the Education Sector

Programme to integrate psychosocial support in the education sector.
Region: 
Africa
Population: 
Children and adolescents
Disorder: 
Child behavioural and developmental disorders
Depression/anxiety/stress-related disorders
3773 reads
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Suicide Prevention in Tunisia

The development of a programme to better understand the causality of suicidal behaviour within Tunisia and to define a prevention strategy to integrate within the national strategy as a priority action.
Region: 
Africa
Population: 
Children and adolescents
Adults
Disorder: 
Self-harm/suicide
32245 reads
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Strengthening Psychosocial support service for Transformation among the Congolese refugees in Uganda (SPOT)

Programme to strengthen psychosocial support services for among the Congolese refugees in Uganda.
Region: 
Africa
Population: 
Minority populations
Humanitarian and conflict health
Disorder: 
All disorders
1398 reads
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Training primary care physicians to use the mhGAP-IG in Tunisia

Delivering weekly mhGAP-based training sessions with primary care physicians in Tunisia.
Region: 
Africa
Disorder: 
All disorders
682 reads
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Holistic Community Care for Parenthood (HCCP)

A holistic provision of mental health interventions for mothers, fathers and their children.
Region: 
Africa
Population: 
Maternal and neonatal health
Children and adolescents
Adults
Disorder: 
Child behavioural and developmental disorders
Depression/anxiety/stress-related disorders
1342 reads
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Community-based Sociotherapy Adapted for Refugees (COSTAR)

Using an adapted Community-based Sociotherapy approach to reduce depressive symptomology in Congolese refugees.
Region: 
Africa
Population: 
Adults
Humanitarian and conflict health
Disorder: 
Depression/anxiety/stress-related disorders
2770 reads
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INTernational REsearch Programme on Psychoses In Diverse settings (INTREPID II)

Cross-cultural research programme to generate rigorous population-based data on schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders in India, Nigeria and Trinidad.
Region: 
Africa
Asia
Population: 
Adults
Families and carers
Disorder: 
Psychosis/bipolar disorder
557 reads
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The Friendship Bench

Trained and supervised lay health worker stationed on a “Friendship Bench” delivers problem-solving therapy.
Region: 
Africa
Population: 
Adults
Disorder: 
Depression/anxiety/stress-related disorders
24376 reads
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MHPSS Refugee Response in South Sudan

Integrated mental health and psychosocial support to refugee populations in South Sudan.
Region: 
Africa
Population: 
Maternal and neonatal health
Children and adolescents
Adults
Humanitarian and conflict health
Disorder: 
All disorders
1777 reads
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PRIME (PRogramme for Improving Mental health carE)

Partnership to develop, implement, evaluate, and scale up district mental health care plans in five low- and middle-income countries: Ethiopia, India, Nepal, South Africa and Uganda.
Region: 
Africa
Asia
5935 reads
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PRIME - Uganda

Integrating mental health service delivery into primary health care system in Ethiopia through a health systems strengthening approach in partnership with researchers, ministries of health and non-governmental organisations.
Region: 
Africa
Disorder: 
All disorders
1389 reads
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PRIME South Africa

Mental health system strengthening in partnership with researchers, Ministries of Health and non-governmental organisations
Region: 
Africa
Disorder: 
All disorders
1231 reads
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PRIME Ethiopia

Integrating mental health service delivery into primary health care system in Ethiopia through a health systems strengthening approach in partnership with researchers, ministries of health and non-governmental organisations.
Region: 
Africa
Disorder: 
All disorders
1796 reads
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Partners in Health Lesotho Mental Health Integration Program

Mental health integration into primary care and services for MDRTB/HIV/AIDs in Lesotho.
Region: 
Africa
Population: 
Maternal and neonatal health
Children and adolescents
Adults
Disorder: 
Child behavioural and developmental disorders
Depression/anxiety/stress-related disorders
3143 reads
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Nguvu - Reducing Partner Violence and Psychological Distress among Refugees in Tanzania

Development and pilot evaluation of an integrated intervention that targets IPV and its psycho-social health consequences in a refugee camp within a low-income setting.
Region: 
Africa
Population: 
Adults
Humanitarian and conflict health
Disorder: 
Depression/anxiety/stress-related disorders
1094 reads

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