SR, Women Affairs BUREAU

Conduct MHPSS ToT Training for Front line workers to provide girls and boys with psychosocial
support through multi-sectoral programming interventions at Godey, Adaddle, Qalafo, Mustahil Emay
Galbeed and Emay Bari)

Term Of Reference

Child Protection, Care and Development Directorate

December, 2023
Introduction and Justifications

Over the last few years, Ethiopia has been affected by various shocks, including
conflict, intercommunal violence, drought, floods, desert locusts and COVID-19
pandemic; and also, Ethiopia suffers from frequent and extreme weather events
(droughts and floods) that affect access to food. Hundreds of thousands of people are
displaced each year due to the droughts, conflicts etc. consequently BoWCA with the
support of UNICEF have had prepared emergency response plan regarding addressing
child protection needs and concerns.

The activities of this emergency response plan were contained hiring and placing social
workers to the sites or locations of internal displaced peoples (IDPs), training of social
workers, mobilizing social work activities, supporting interagency case management
system, organizing and strengthening community based child protection mechanisms,
establishing coordination cluster between child protection organizations, provision of
psychosocial support and counseling services, and facilitation of child friendly spaces.

Accordingly, Roll out Psychosocial Support PFA Training for Front line workers to
provide girls and boys with psychosocial support through multi-sectoral programming
interventions in the Drought affected Weradas is part of emergency response plan
which is designed to provide short term training to the front line social workers and
officers from child protection actors.

Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) first aid training will focus on
national cross sectoral MHPSS framework to improve capacity building of staff to better
support the MHPSS needs of children and their caregivers. The workshop will provide
participants with practical MHPSS tools to critically assess and support children and
families with psychosocial support needs and to facilitate referrals of severe cases to
appropriate more specialized mental health services and to ensure the quality and
effectiveness of the MHPSS comprehensions of frontline workers.
Objectives

Specific objectives of the case management training are:

 To ensure that frontline workers in the government offices have basic have basic
understanding on child protection and the MHPSS.
 To clarify the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders within provision of MPHSS
 To introduce Frontline workers MPHSS First Aid tools and Techniques

Training Participants Profile

The training is designed for 154 participants stakeholders, government offices such us
Justice, police, BOWCA, Health, and NGOs Across Development and Humanitarian
Contexts Based on The National Child Protection Case Management Framework in
CPIE at Godey, Adaddle, Qalafo, Mustahil Emay Galbeed and Emay Bari)

Training Duration

The Duration of the training will be June 15 up to 26, 2023.

Training Schedule

Time Topic Facilitator

DAY 1
8:30– 09:00  Registration BOWCA
09:00– 09:25  Opening Remark BOWCA
Session 1 : Over view of Child protection development and Humanitarian context
9:25: 10:30 Introduction MHPSS Mohamed H. & Ahmed Osman
10:30- 11:00 Tea Break Mohamed H. & Ahmed Osman
11:00-12:30 What is psychosocial wellbeing Mohamed H. & Ahmed Osman
12:30- 2:00 Lunch Break
2:00- 3:30 What is psychosocial wellbeing Mohamed H. & Ahmed Osman
3:30-4:00 Tea Break
4:00- 5:00 What is psychosocial wellbeing Omar Ahmed and Mohamed Hassan
DAY 2
8:30– 09:00 Registration Participants
9:00- 9:30 Recap of previous sessions Participants
9:30- 10:30 Session 2 What are factors that affect Mohamed H. & Ahmed Osman
psychosocial wellbeing
10:30- 11:00 Break time
11:00-12:30 Session 2 What are factors that affect Mohamed H. & Ahmed Osman
psychosocial wellbeing
12:30- 2:00 Lunch Break
11:00-12:30 Session 2 Role of social workers as Mohamed H. & Ahmed Osman
psychosocial wellbeing helpers
12:30- 2:00 Lunch Break
2:00- 3:30 Session 2 Role of social workers as Mohamed H. & Ahmed Osman
psychosocial wellbeing helpers
3:30-4:00 Tea Break
4:00- 5:00 introduction psychosocial support first aid Mohamed H. & Ahmed Osman

DAY 3
8:30– 09:00 Registration Participants
9:00- 9:30 Recap of previous sessions Participants
9:30- 10:30 psychosocial support first aid BOWCA
10:30-11:00 TEA BREAK
11:00–12:30 Action principles of MHPSS Participants
12:30-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00- 3:30 Relaxation exercise Participants
3:30-4:00 Tea Break
4:00- 5:00 Relaxation exercise All members
5:30 Closing To be assigned
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