YE-MSAL-473-2001-4000001969
Family Counseling and Development Foundation
Psychological and Social Response to Yemeni People Affected by the Conflict.
The project intends to fill the gap of psychological and social response in humanitarian interventions in Yemen.Service Provision 1. Provide helpline and counselling services, clinical therapy and social referral to Yemeni women, men and children affected by the war including in the IDPs camps, host communities, families who lost their members/relatives, people with injuries and female-headed families in four governorates (Sana'a, Amran, Taiz and Aden). Institutional Building 2. Enhance the FCDF effectiveness and equality in service provision, monitoring and evaluation and sustainability by establishing a three-year FCDF strategy and a monitoring, evaluation system. Advocacy and Awareness 3. influence and aware the public, stakeholders especially decision makers in health sector, and civil society on psycho-social needs of people affected by the conflict especially women and children.
Netherlands - Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Family Counseling and Development Foundation
Family Counseling and Development Foundation
This project was planned to start on October 2018
We got authority permission on April 2019 to start implementing project activities.
3 Years from the planned start date.
Family Counseling and Development Foundation
+9761418403
a.al-fadhli@fcdf-ye.org
http://www.fcdf-ye.org/Default2.aspx
The project is being implemented in Yemen.
Sana'a
15.35472 44.20667
Aden
12.77944 45.03667
Taiz
13.57952 44.02091
Amran
15.652130950388306 43.9453125
To intervene in mental health and psycho-social support.
300000
400000
300000
400000
1151166
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS)
FAMILY COUNSELING & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
300000
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS)
FAMILY COUNSELING & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
Provide helpline and counselling services, clinical therapy and social referral to Yemeni women, men and children affected by the war including in the IPDs camps, host communities, families who lost their members/relatives, people with injuries and female-headed families in four governorates (Sana'a, Amran, Taiz and Aden).
Yemeni women, men, youth, elderly and children from different social, economic and geographical background received psychological and social services through FCDF Toll-Free Help-Line, psychotherapy and psychiatric units, referral services in FCDF centers in Sana’a and Aden and sensitized thru field visits.
Yemeni women, men and children received psycho and social support of Help-line counseling, clinical therapy and referral. services.
This numbers covered in the first quarter of 2021.
This number of beneficiaries covered in the Second quarter of 2021.
This number of beneficiaries covered in the third quarter of 2021.
women, girls, boys and men received psychological counselling and support through the Toll-Free Help-line (136)
Yemeni women, men, youth, elderly and children from different social, economic and geographical background received psychological and social counselling through FCDF Toll-Free Help-Line. 11 well-trained phone counselors working for 12 hours a day from 8 AM To 8 PM, 6 days a week have helped calling cases with different counseling needs. From family, social to psychological issues. For cases that need psychiatric counseling and either calling from remote areas or cannot reach our centers, the counselors redirect the call to 2 assigned psychiatrics working for 6 days a week to provide basic help. War, family and social problems are dominating and the largest number of callers were female as phone calls are the easiest and most suitable way for help to them because they do not have to leave their residents which put them under the pressure of seeking their family permission.
Provide Women, Men and children with psychotherapy service in FCDF clinics.
women, men, and children received psychotherapy sessions through FCDF psychotherapy clinics in Sana’a Center. With the help of the psychologist, the beneficiaries were able to express feelings of desperation, as well as their hopes and dreams by being given the opportunity to express themselves, as well as forming a space in the community in which feelings can be normalized. Many participants became active and eager to attend regular sessions. Beneficiaries directly benefited from basic and advanced counselling sessions as well as group sessions, which stimulated positive behavior change, relieved trauma, and increased community trust and cohesion.
Provide Women, Men and children with psychiatry Service in FCDF clinics.
Women and men with severe mental disorders such as bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder and schizophrenia, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder received diagnostic services and prescribed the needed medicine but they weren’t provided with free medicine as this project doesn’t offer fund for free medicine fund and they had to buy medicine themselves. Sadly, many cases who come to the foundation with severe mental disorders remain untreated as they face many challenges in meeting medication needs .
Provide referral to Yemeni women, men and children affected by the conflict.
FCDF offered referral to beneficiaries for services including social, legal, medical and empowerment, which improved the well-being of participants and decrease vulnerabilities. Beneficiaries were referred to partners such Medical due mound, Save the Children and Care for medical services. Women union for economy empowerment and legal counseling and sustainable development foundation for displaced people assistance.
Provide field psycho-social service to IDPs in Sana’a, Amran, Taiz and Aden.
Raising awareness among the society in the targeted governorates through educating them about mental health and psychosocial support and introducing them to the nature of common signs of the crisis and stress. Giving the participants in the session proper scientific knowledge to cope with the pressures of war and displacement, for example, Introduce Toll-Free Help-Line, clinical and referral services. Moreover, recognize the importance of the self-support and learning the most important psychological counseling tips that can help in adapting to the psychological stress. Finally, raise awareness on the specificity of children by taking into account the children’s needs during armed conflicts and those affected by wars and disasters- and how to response to the direct effects of child’s shocks besides major mental disorders resulting from war in children and women. Many of participants in the awareness sessions used to attribute symptoms of psychological shocks and anxiety to external force such as jinn or demons. Yet after attending awareness sessions, they have become aware that those symptoms have scientific psycho reasons and they can be Treated. Thus, to get rid of those problems, participants asked to attend the group support counseling sessions, they also contact the Toll-Free Help-Line seeking for counselling.
Provide 2100 Women, Men and children with psychiatry and free psychotropic medicine in FCDF clinics in 2021.
Women, men and children received free psychiatric diagnosis and psychotropic medicine in FCDF psychiatry clinics. FCDF will provide cases with psychotropic medicine for up to 1 Year.
Train 25 psychology graduates for 3 months to be psychotherapists.
Enhance FCDF effectiveness and equality in service provision, monitoring and evaluation and sustainability by establishing a three-year strategy and monitoring and evaluation system.
FCDF conducted a strategic planning process and the 3-Year strategy document has been produced. -Two monitoring visit were conducted to Aden and Taiz city.
conducted a strategic planning process thru participatory theoretical and practical and field research with peer organizations, stake holders and beneficiaries.
In order for the Family counseling and Development Foundation to play a more effective role in the field of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, it had to generally review its approach and performance during the past three years, think about organizing and empowering the organization on the one hand, and in organizing and empowering the mental health sector to ensure its response to the continuous and incremental needs and take advantage of emerging opportunities on the other hand. The Strategic Plan for the Family Foundation and Development Foundation (2020-2022) is an important event in the organization development timeline for two main reasons: The first is- along with a focus on service provision -, the orientation towards institutional building to ensure integrative standards, integration of services and their quality, efficiency and institutional governance. The second is the foundation interest in organizing and empowering the mental health sector to ensure access and equal distribution of MHPSS services among the various regions of the Republic of Yemen and all segments of the society by activating mental health facilities, training health personnel to provide basic mental health services, and establishing partnerships to coordinate efforts, exchange benefits and enhance mutual support. FCDF hopes through the strategy (2020-2022) to - Increase the number of beneficiaries from MHPSS services, - Work to provide MHPSS services in areas of need in the main cities, districts and remote areas - Enhance the opportunity of NGOs to contribute in developing the mental health and psychosocial support sector through partnerships with the government, the private sector and donors, which also provides an opportunity to improve governance and accountability on the one hand, and on the other hand it provides an opportunity for FCDF and other NGOs to provide their expertise to the government and other stakeholders as key partners and contractors in service provision. This strategic plan identifies the main challenges that FCDF faces, which are: - Gaps in completing the administrative, programmatic and operational institutional structure. - Lack of resources and technical capabilities. - The Foundation ambitious vision, mission and strategic goals in light of insufficient infrastructure for the mental health sector and weak ability to Enforce work standards such as integration, quality, efficiency, governance, and effective partnership. To overcome these challenges, the Family Counseling and Development Foundation will focus in the next three years on: - Institutional development of the institution to improve institutional performance, - enhance the integration and integration approach to improve service delivery, - enhance research, monitoring, evaluation, communication and communication and benefit from them to improve service delivery, governance and accountability, including meeting ongoing health needs in the sector as well Partnership needs, activating mental health facilities in various regions and increasing the capacity of health personnel, including doctors and specialists. As a first step to achieve the strategic directions of FCDF, an organizational structure has been developed which is appropriate to the nature of the its work in order to enhance the program unit and the ties of integration with the administrative units, facilitates the process of reporting and information flows and communication. They are all necessary for an effective implementation of the 3-Year Strategic Plan. A Balanced Scorecard & Key Performance Indicators (BSC & KPIs) to help shorten strategy description, focus on important actions, and facilitates successful implementation of the strategy. The process of developing the strategic plan for the FCDF That last for 3 Months , from October- December 2019 was a participatory process that included literary reviews of the foundation’s documents from relevant reports, policies, procedures and media publications, as well as the collection of primary field information through interviews with beneficiaries, as well as secondary information collection by reviewing studies And researches related to the state of mental health in Yemen, and national plans such as the humanitarian response plan in Yemen, in addition to 7-days workshops to analyze, plan, verify, discuss and consensus on priorities, Objectives and strategies. This process was facilitated and supported by ITAR foundation for Social Development, which designed the methodology, collected and analyzed information, implemented the workshops, and prepared the final report.
conduct two monitoring visits.
During project reporting period, two field monitoring and technical support visits took place to Aden on December 24th 2019, and to Taiz on December 27th 2019.they were implemented to meet with the project coordinators in the provinces of Aden and Taiz. The visits purposes were to: - Evaluate of the work in Taiz and Aden Based on the project objectives and plan, - Ensure the integrity of administrative and technical procedures when implementing activities, - Provide technical and psychological support to project coordinators in Taiz and Aden in case of need. - Review documentation and case files. - Review and discuss hardships of implementing activities. - The importance of integration with other service providers to maximize the benefit. - The importance of publicizing the Toll-Free Help-Line especially in Aden as our reports show Aden callers were only 713 people during 2019 in comparison with Taiz that show the number callers were 1415 people in the same period. Aden coordinator justified the difficulties in mobile calling due to poor coverage was the main reason behind the few number of callers. The output of the visit was: - Psychological support (Support for supervisors) was provided because it was found some psychological combustion due to work in conflict environments, - Provide the coordinators with the most important technical observations concerning the provision of support, especially for the children, - Provide coordinators with a number of basic references for field psychological support, - Conduct brainstorming to solve some of the problems coordinators face in the field.
The monitoring visit has been rescheduled to 2021 according to the 2021-2022 reallocated budget approved by the donor.
The Monitoring visit has been postponed to 2021 because of COVID 19 preventive measures.
This is the monitoring visit that had been rescheduled to beginning of 2021.
Influence and aware the public, stakeholders especially decision makers in health sector, and civil society on psychological needs of people affected by the conflict especially women and children.
Conduct a short advocacy and awareness rising campaign by producing posters and brochures and radio, TV and thru electronic media.
Brochures, Flyers, posters, periodical reports and materials has been printed and disseminated. Posters and brochures were distributed in the field visits, cluster meetings and to cases that come to our centers in order to spread them in their areas in order to expand the number of beneficiaries and increase community awareness of mental health and psycho-social support. This is to contribute in letting people know that mental illness is curable like any other physical one and to encourage people speak about the once was unspeakable due to the stigma this topic. posters and flyers were printed and disseminated in areas where the maximum output could be achieved such as schools and IDP camps.
Under the theme “IT IS NOT A SHAME”, We continue the campaign that aim to raise awareness to reduce the stigma about seeking mental health and psychosocial support. It also encourages people to reach the foundation for help.
We launched a sponsored campaign to educate people cope with their stress during COVID-19 second wave. We broad casted radio advertisement to promote the free services of the foundation. The awareness campaign was not limited to broadcasting advertisements only. The Foundation worked in coordination with one of the local radio stations “Asala FM 87.9”, to produce a bi-week radio program; each of its episodes is hosted by a psychotherapist from the Foundation’s staff to talk about a specific topic of mental health.
Influence and aware the public, stakeholders especially decision makers in health sector, and civil society on psychosocial needs of people affected by the conflict especially women and children.
Activity 3.1: Conduct a short advocacy and awareness raising campaign by produce posters and brochures and radio, TV and through electronic media.
Develop and disseminate information on psycho-social sector for advocacy and awareness purpose by producing a periodical.
A periodical contains several mental health and psycho-social awareness rising articles was printed published and 1000 copies were disseminated. It covers several topics from kid’s prevention of traumas, latest treatment methods of psychological and behavioral disorders to a story that tells people how someone’s suffer turn into normal life after seeking help and attending regular psychotherapy sessions.
The second periodical has been rescheduled to beginning of 2021 according to the 2021-2022 reallocated budget approved by the donor.
This is the second periodical that had been rescheduled to beginning of 2021 .
Conduct a coordination & Advocacy meeting.
FCDF coordinated with decision-makers, peer NGOs and civil society member on psychosocial response to prepare for the advocacy meeting, and most invitees attend the meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to: - Persuade decision makers and other task forces on psycho-social support, prevention and protection to intensify efforts to reduce and work on psycho-social problems.
Conduct a Case study and publish an analytical article.
The analytical article has been rescheduled to 2021 according to the 2021-2022 reallocated budget approved by the donor.
YE-MSAL-473-2001-4000005672
Family Counseling and Development Foundation
Psychological and Social Response to Yemeni People Affected by the Conflict. Phase III
In this project, FCDF is responding to the needs for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support as an essential element of health and protection activities. The goal is to improve mental health and well-being of Yemeni people affected by the conflict. It will mainly focus on providing integrated MHPSS, protection, case management and referral services to women, children, men, IDPs, GBV victims and people with disabilities in Sana’a, Aden, Lahj, Abyan and Taiz.
The project interventions will extend to include training and capacity building to provide basic mental health services to fill the gap of the lack of mental health professionals and accessibility to MHPSS services.
Netherlands - Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Family Counseling and Development Foundation
Family Counseling and Development Foundation
We got authority permission on April 2019 to start implementing project activities.
1 Year from actual start date.
Family Counseling and Development Foundation
+9761418403
a.al-fadhli@fcdf-ye.org
http://www.fcdf-ye.org/Default2.aspx
The project is being implemented in Yemen.
Sana'a
Provide Yemeni people psychiatric and psychotropic services and free medicines and night care thru FCDF clinical centers in Sana'a and Aden and field camps. Provide phone psycho-social counseling thru our Toll-Free Help-Line that operates 12 hours a day and 6 days a week.
15.35472 44.20667
Aden
12.77944 45.03667
Taiz
13.57952 44.02091
Lahj
13.16667 44.58333
Abyan
13.6291 46.126
To intervene in mental health and psycho-social support.
1038416
956495
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS)
1038416
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS)
Provide helpline and counselling services, clinical therapy, psychotropic medicine, economic empowerment training and social referral to Yemeni women, men and children affected by the war including people in the IDP camps, host communities, families who lost their members/relatives, people with injuries and female-headed families in five governorates (Sana'a, Aden, Taiz, Lahj and Abyan)
Provide daily and psychological counselling to (24,000) persons by ten toll-free help lines operating 12 hours six days a week.
The free Psychological Help-Line 136 was stopped for several months but as a mitigation measure we added additional free number 8000136 and we are expecting to serve more in Q1 2023.
In this period as well, we worked hard to promote the newly added free psychological number (8000136). By the end of the project, we successfully served (23218) people who lived in remote areas and have no MHPSS services available.
Provide 700 women, men and children with psychotherapy in FCDF clinics
Provide field psychosocial services to (4,200) IDPs in Aden, Taiz, Lahj and Abyan
By the end of the project, 4236 people benefited from this service
refer (200) Yemeni women, men and children affected by the conflict to NGOs/INGOs to receive other services that are not within the scope of FCDF's interventions.
By the end of the project, we referred and received 198 referrals.
Provide 3,300 women, men and children with psychiatric consultation and free psychotropic medicine in FCDF clinics. The number of targeted beneficiaries has been increased to 4100 with the same allocated budget due to FCDF effort to find a competitive price.
With the same allocated budget, FCDF has succeeded to increase the number of targeted beneficiaries to 4100 instead of 3300 due to FCDF effort to find a competitive price. In this period, the initial targeted beneficiaries were supposed to be 550 but, with added number of beneficiaries, the targeted beneficiaries in this reporting period is 1350. With this opportunity, we were able to add more people with mental condition who come to the center for the first time to benefit from this project rather than limiting the number of accepted new cases per day.
By the end of the project, we served 4121 people with mental health condition who needed pharmacological intervention and we will continue serving them for up to 12 Months.
Increase access to MHPSS services.
train 5 GPs in FCDF Sana’a center to be psychiatrists. The training is launched during the first year only.
Train 6 GPs in public hospitals in Aden, Lahj and Abyan to provide psychological assessment, basic mental health services and prescribe medicine
This activity has been planned to be implemented on May 2023
In this reporting period, FCDF has trained 6 GPs working for public hospitals in Aden Lahj and Abyan on mhGAP
Train 25 psychology graduates to be psychotherapists
25 psychology graduates will be trained and qualified theoretically and practically to be psychotherapists in order to be able to treat different types of psychological disorders for women, men and children.
FCDF has announced the training opportunity, conducted admission examinations and assessments to applicants and selected the trainees and the training has already started and still going on.
Training psychological graduates will continue till the end of July in order to complete the assigned curriculum and ensure the trainees get the optimum theoretical and practical knowledge.
Enhance FCDF effectiveness and equality in service provision, monitoring and evaluation.
Conduct (2) monitoring visits to Aden and Taiz.
We did not implement this visit and due to traveling hardships.
Contract with consultancy services to do assessments, project and organizational structure consultancy which will contribute to increase our organizational capacity in addition to proposal and report writing that will help us in fund raising
FCDF has contracted with a professional consulting service provider and implemented the activity to assess and improve org chart manual, job description manual and authority matrix.
Conduct (1) gender analysis and study on MHPSS.
Influence and raise awareness of the public, stakeholders especially decision makers in health sector, and civil society on psychosocial needs of people affected by the conflict especially women and children.
Conduct 4 awareness raising campaigns by producing posters, brochures, radio and TV shows and through social media.
Develop and disseminate information on psycho and social sector for advocacy and awareness purposes by (2) periodicals
By the end of the project, FCDF issued 2 periodicals that contain psycho educational material to increase the awareness of MHPSS.
Produce one short film (2-3 minutes) on an advocacy issue.
To Produce one short film to present an issue and support advocacy on MHPSS.
FCDF produced a short film to be used during the advocacy meeting.
Conduct a coordination & advocacy meeting.
FCDF will conduct an advocacy meeting where decision-makers peer NGOs and civil society members will gather in FCDF center or virtually to discuss issues on MHPSS responses and conflict impact on family specially women and children.
FCDF could not implement this activity and has postpone it to the coming project.
YE-MSAL-473-2001-4000006760
Family Counseling and Development Foundation
Psychological and Social Response to Yemeni People Affected by the Conflict. Phase III
In this project, FCDF is responding to the needs for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support as an essential element of health and protection activities. The goal is to improve mental health and well-being of Yemeni people affected by the conflict. It will mainly focus on providing integrated MHPSS, protection, case management and referral services to women, children, men, IDPs, GBV victims and people with disabilities in Sana’a, Aden, Lahj, Abyan and Taiz.
The project interventions will extend to include training and capacity building to provide basic mental health services to fill the gap of the lack of mental health professionals and accessibility to MHPSS services.
Netherlands - Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Family Counseling and Development Foundation
Family Counseling and Development Foundation
1 Year from actual start date.
Family Counseling and Development Foundation
+9761418403
a.al-fadhli@fcdf-ye.org
http://www.fcdf-ye.org/Default2.aspx
The project is being implemented in Yemen.
Sana'a
Provide Yemeni people psychiatric and psychotropic services and free medicines and night care thru FCDF clinical centers in Sana'a and Aden and field camps. Provide phone psycho-social counseling thru our Toll-Free Help-Line that operates 12 hours a day and 6 days a week.
15.35472 44.20667
Aden
12.77944 45.03667
Taiz
13.57952 44.02091
Lahj
13.16667 44.58333
Abyan
13.6291 46.126
To intervene in mental health and psycho-social support.
1046259
610318
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS)
1046259
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS)
Provide helpline and counselling services, clinical therapy, psychotropic medicine, economic empowerment training and social referral to Yemeni women, men and children affected by the war including people in the IDP camps, host communities, families who lost their members/relatives, people with injuries and female-headed families in five governorates (Sana'a, Aden, Taiz, Lahj and Abyan)
Provide 700 women, men and children with psychotherapy in FCDF clinics
Provide daily and psychological counselling to (24,000) persons by ten toll-free help lines operating 12 hours six days a week.
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refer (200) Yemeni women, men and children affected by the conflict to NGOs/INGOs to receive other services that are not within the scope of FCDF's interventions.
Provide 3,300 women, men and children with psychiatric consultations and free psychotropic medicine at FCDF clinics.
Provide field psychosocial services to (4,200) IDPs in Aden, Taiz, Lahj and Abyan
Increase access to MHPSS services.
Train 6 GPs in public hospitals in Aden, Lahj and Abyan to provide psychological assessment, basic mental health services and prescribe medicine
train 5 GPs in FCDF Sana’a center to be psychiatrists. The training is launched during the first year only.
Training GPs at FCDF center in Sana'a is not included in this year proposal and plan but we conducted this activity to help increase the number of psychological professionals. The training is going on
Train 25 psychology graduates to be psychotherapists
25 psychology graduates will be trained and qualified theoretically and practically to be psychotherapists in order to be able to treat different types of psychological disorders for women, men and children.
FCDF has announced the training opportunity for qualified and interested candidates to apply.
Enhance FCDF effectiveness and equality in service provision, monitoring and evaluation.
Conduct (2) monitoring visits to Aden and Taiz.
Contract with consultancy services to do assessments, project and organizational structure consultancy which will contribute to increase our organizational capacity in addition to proposal and report writing that will help us in fund raising
FCDF has contracted with a professional consulting service provider and implemented the activity to assess, develop and improve policies and procedures.
Conduct (1) gender analysis and study on MHPSS.
Influence and raise awareness of the public, stakeholders especially decision makers in health sector, and civil society on psychosocial needs of people affected by the conflict especially women and children.
Develop and disseminate information on psycho and social sector for advocacy and awareness purposes by (2) periodicals
Conduct a coordination & advocacy meeting.
FCDF will conduct an advocacy meeting where decision-makers peer NGOs and civil society members will gather in FCDF center or virtually to discuss issues on MHPSS responses and conflict impact on family specially women and children.
This activity has been postponed till March 2024
Produce one short film (2-3 minutes) on an advocacy issue.
To Produce one short film to present an issue and support advocacy on MHPSS.
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Conduct 4 awareness raising campaigns by producing posters, brochures, radio and TV shows and through social media.