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MHPSS Hub Technical advice and support

Regional Community based MHPSS training, Burkina Faso, 2025.

The MHPSS Hub strengthens National Societies, the IFRC and the ICRC through technical guidance, capacity and competency development, supervision, and operational support in the design, monitoring, and evaluation of MHPSS programmes, including integration of MHPSS across sectors. Movement components can draw on the MHPSS Hub to provide technical advice and support. Depending on the scope of work, this support may need to be conducted on a cost recovery basis.

MHPSS workforce capacity strengthening support can include:

  • Assessing, designing and conducting MHPSS workforce capacity strengthening initiatives (e.g.
    trainings, briefing sessions, workshops on technical subjects).
  • Designing and developing MHPSS competency frameworks and professional development
    pathways for MHPSS staff and volunteers.
  • Designing and supporting the implementation of supportive supervision systems, including peer
    support and supportive supervision for MHPSS focal points.

MHPSS organisational capacity strengthening support can include:

  • Undertaking, or supporting, organisational MHPSS capacity assessments.
  • Supporting Movement components with planning, programme design, monitoring, evaluation,
    accountability, learning and research activities, including:
  • Developing theories of change, logical frameworks, developing monitoring and evaluation
    plans, etc.
  • Designing and conducting MHPSS needs assessments and/or adapting assessment tools.
  • Supporting with design of MHPSS programme evaluations, such as reviewing terms of
    references and advising on required competencies of evaluators.
  • Conducting evaluations or technical reviews of MHPSS programs.
  • Designing and facilitating lessons learned workshops.
  • Support designing and/or technical reviews of operational research initiatives.
  • Supporting with organisational level MHPSS institutionalisation, including:
  • Designing and facilitating workshops for MHPSS strategy development, integration and
    mainstreaming of MHPSS.
  • Designing and facilitating workshops for policy development on staff and volunteer care.
  • Technical reviews and standardization of MHPSS materials, tools and programme design,
    including emergency responses.
  • Supporting Movement components to adapt and contextualise MHPSS Hub materials/tools.
  • Supporting Movement components with communication and dissemination of materials/tools.
  • Supporting Movement components to develop internal and external HD/advocacy strategies.

MHPSS system capacity strengthening support can include:

  • Technical advice and reviews of national policies, quality frameworks and competency
    frameworks related to MHPSS, health, social care and disaster management.
  • Lead or partner on operational research projects.
  • Supporting Movement components to develop advocacy and communications strategies.
  • Convene working groups to coordinate humanitarian diplomacy or joint capacity strengthening
    activities.
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Red Cross Red Crescent Movement MHPSS Hub
Hejrevej 30, st.
2400 Copenhagen NV
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