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Dear colleagues,
In the framework of the on going IOM relief efforts in South-East Asia, IOM Psychosocial and Cultural Integration Unit is planning psychosocial and mental health interventions in the Tsunami affected areas by developing field activities and programs that will be carried out upon confirmation of funds.
Within this context, we welcome organizations, institutions, and individuals to send/share with us CV of qualified psychosocial operators available for short-mid terms missions to assess the situation and/or implement part of the activities in South-Eastern Asian countries affected by the Tsunami.
Please note that IOM approach on mental health and psychocosocial interventions follows basic guiding principles as:
- use of methodologies through the development of individual and community resilience;
- de-medicalised response to the victims;
- strengthen the survivals' psychological, social and cultural internal resources;
- construction/enhancement of cultural and context appropriate tools for the elaboration of trauma.
Please check the links of IOM Psychosocial Notebooks, as our reference materials:
Vol. 2, October 2001
Archives of Memory: Supporting Traumatized Communities Through Narration and Remembrance
http://www.iom.int//DOCUMENTS/PUBLICATION/EN/PTR2.pdf
Vol. 3, June 2002
Psychosocial and Trauma Response in War-Torn Societies:supporting Traumatized
communities through theatre and the arts.
http://www.iom.int//DOCUMENTS/PUBLICATION/EN/PTR3.pdf
Vol. 4, February 2004
Psychosocial Support to Groups of Victims of Human Trafficking in Transit
Situations
http://www.iom.int//DOCUMENTS/PUBLICATION/EN/Psycho4.pdf
Requirements:
Throughout knowledge of English
Community approach
Knowledge of South-East Asia culture (extra)
Please feel free to circulate this message, but only to a selected list of high-level professionals you might recommend.
Please send CV and/or contact names, time availability, and length of time in advance before deployment, to:
tsunami@iompsychosocial.com
Thanks and regards,
Natale Losi
Head of Unit-IOM
Tsunami Project
Psychosocial and Cultural Integration Unit
via Nomentana, 62
00161 Rome, Italy
fax +39 06 44186216-232-213
fax +39 06 4402533
tsunami@iompsychosocial.com
psycho@iom.int
www.iom.int
Asian Tsunami – Resources and Guidelines for Best Practice for Providing Psychosocial Support
Dear FM List colleagues,
For your interest and use I would like to bring to your attention various helpful online resources relating to psychosocial assistance/mental well-being follow on from the Asian tsunami emergency of December 2004.
These resources, and further details, can be found through the Psychosocial Working Group homepage at
http://www.forcedmigration.org/psychosocial/.
Many of the partner groups and individuals of the Psychosocial Working Group are involved in the development of these featured resources and programmes, and are working in many of the countries affected by the tsunami.
The present list of resources is also summarised below this message.
Dr Maryanne Loughry
Email:
maryanne.loughry@qeh.ox.ac.uk
Psychosocial Working Group
http://www.forcedmigration.org/psychosocial/
RESOURCE LIST:
Asian Tsunami – Resources and Guidelines for Best Practice for Psychosocial Support
Inter-Agency working group on separated and unaccompanied children.
Psychosocial Care and Protection of Tsunami Affected Children: Guiding
Principles.
In enabling a coordinated, principled response to children affected by
the Tsunami disaster guiding principles for psychosocial care and
protection of children have been developed by the 'Inter-Agency working group on separated and unaccompanied children'. The group includes: the International Rescue Committee (IRC), Save the Children UK (SC UK), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and World Vision International (WVI).
Online at the CAP – Children as Partners website
http://www.iicrd.org/cap/node/view/383
Psychosocial Support Programme, Sri Lanka
Blog site: Tsunami Help for Sri Lanka: Psychosocial Issues
This BLOG is maintained by the Psychosocial Support Programme, Sri
Lanka. It is a temporary measure to share information that can be of
assistance in coordinating relief interventions in the wake of the
tsunami that affected Sri Lanka on the 26th of December 2004. In the
near future, this will be replaced/augmented with a website at the
address www.reliefcoordinationtsunamisl.com .
Blog site at:
http://tsunamihelpsrilanka.blogspot.com/2005/01/psychosocial-aspects-of-tsunami.html
Institute for International Health and Development, QMUC.
Asian Tsunami Response - Psychosocial Working Group.
Members of the PWG are currently in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and southern India working on behalf of the consortium, their agencies and
governments to provide emergency relief and assess psychosocial needs.
Other local organizations are asking us to partner them in addressing
short, medium and long term needs arising in their own countries. We are putting together a proposal to harness the experience of the consortium in support of those most acutely affected by the earthquake and tsunami.
Contact PWG Co-ordinator Dr Alison Strang for more details.
AStrang@qmuc.ac.uk
http://www.qmuc.ac.uk/cihs/postTsunami.htm
Regional Emergency Psychosocial Support Network.
Asian Tsunami - Page of relevant resources, policy guidelines and reports.
http://www.psychosocialnetwork.org/asian_tsunami.htm
Christian Children’s Fund.
CCF Assesses the Needs of the Tsunami Generation
http://www.christianchildrensfund.org/default.aspx?id=552
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December 26th Tsunami - Lessons from Previous Crises for the Tsunami Response
In response to the current humanitarian crisis in South Asia, ALNAP has compiled a list of evaluations and lessons learned reports of previous crises following natural disasters. The list contains 12 reports from 8 different commissioning agencies covering relief and rehabilitation work after floods in Bangladesh, Brazil and Mozambique, the Gujarat earthquake in India as well as Hurricane Mitch.
ALNAP will be analysing a selection of reports to produce a 'lessons learned synthesis' focussing on the Tsunami response. Full and Observer Members will be notified when the first draft is posted on the website around the 17th January.
Briefing at AusAID by Dr Graeme Peel
Dr Graeme Peel explains how he led an AusAID-funded, 5-member medical team that was deployed to Sri Lanka on 30 December. The team, which specialises in infectious diseases and public health, worked with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to carry out assessment of hospitals and camps of displaced persons in tsunami-affected areas.
Interviewees: Alan March, Assistant director general, AusAID; Dr Graeme Peel
Overseas Development Institute - Humanitarian Policy Group
HPG has produced a briefing note covering some of the humanitarian aspects of the Indian Ocean catastrophe. It provides a series of links to relevant papers, websites and other sources, including research conducted by ODI. This can be found at
http://www.odi.org.uk/hpg/index.html. These are preliminary reflections only, and we plan to produce a revised version when the facts and issues become clearer. Meanwhile, we would welcome any comments and suggestions you may have.
Also on the HPG site is a short note by Paul Harvey on the potential use of cash and vouchers in situations of this kind.
On the Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN) site, you will find short commissioned piece 'The Asian tsunami: The implications for preparedness and contingency planning' by John Twigg and Richard Choularton
http://www.odihpn.org/report.asp?ID=2690.
We would like to offer our deepest sympathies to all those who may have lost family members, friends or colleagues as result of the tsunamis.
Staff at the Humanitarian Policy Group
Overseas Development Institute
Ethics, Development and Disaster
Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, Text of keynote address at the Ethics and Development Day at the IDB on January 11, 2005
Inter-American Development Bank IADB/BID
Inter-American Initiative on Social Capital, Ethics and Development
CAB International Response to Tsunami Disaster
CAB International (CABI), a not-for-profit publisher and bioscience research organisation is making freely available to those agencies working to provide relief, its internet-based databases Global Health and Global Health Archive.
Global Health and Global Health Archive are now freely accessible to relevant parties for an intitial period of 6 months. Go to their
website to access the databases.
After this initial period Global Health Archive will continue to be freely available to academic and government institutions in the poorest countries for an indefinite period.
- If you wish to suggest a new resource, please email us.