UNFPA’s ‘Reporting on Gender-Based Violence During Public Health Crises’ Now Available in Kurdish
Reporting on gender-based violence, especially during crises such as #COVID-19, is a difficult and sensitive task. When ethical reporting standards are not followed, it can place the lives of survivors at risk. @UNFPAIraq’s guidelines [...]
COVID-19 PSS Training for Community Coordinators and Mobilizers
As SEED’s community coordinators and mobilizers logged on one by one to the video call and greeted each other, there was both excitement and curiosity for the first remote psychosocial support (PSS) training for staff [...]
SEED Launches a MHPSS Standard of Care Tailored for the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
To promote improved services to some of the most vulnerable and violence-affected people in the world, SEED Foundation worked with a broad range of stakeholders to develop a Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) [...]
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Iraq: Challenges and Solutions
SEED’s mental health advisor, Anne Lepelaars, spoke to Julie Meier to help frame her research for the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, about the challenges to providing mental health and psychosocial support services in [...]
Adapting to MHPSS Service Delivery during COVID 19
It has been well documented that COVID-19 measures of social isolation and movement restrictions can impact and exacerbate pre-existing symptoms, especially for those with mental health needs or at risk of gender based violence (GBV). [...]
Importance of Managing Stress and Well-being during COVID-19
The subject of mental health, stress, and wellbeing are often regarded as taboo in Kurdish culture. With the COVID-19 restriction measures, periods of lockdown that Kurdistan has endured since March, and increased economic hardship, it [...]