Provision of mobile psychosocial, GBV and basic health services to conflict induced IDPs in Uruzgan and Kunduz provinces HNTPO will provide life-saving psycho-social support and primary health care services to the IDPs affected by conflict, settled in 3 districts of Uruzgan province through a mobile team consisting of one medical doctor and 2 psycho-social counselors. In Kunduz 2 MHTs will provide basic health, psycho-social and GBV services.
The proposed mobile psycho-social and GBV services are in-line with Envelop 3 of the CHF 2nd standard allocation strategy for 2016. HNTPO has implemented several health, psycho-social and GBV related projects both in Uruzgan and Kunduz provinces. For 6 years we implemented mental health and psycho-social project in Uruzgan through Dutch Consortium for Uruzgan and for three years we implemented a women empowerment project through community system strengthening approach. Because of this project's community approach, the community leaders and male members supported the women from Uguzgan to travel to Kabul to present their ideas about culturally appropriate ways of women empowerment and women's economic prosperity. HNTPO also implemented reproductive health, immunization and basic health services to conflict affected remote areas of Uruzgan by mobilizing private health practitioners through public private partnership. HealthNetTPO also ran community nursing, community pharmacy and community lab technician trainings in Uruzgan. To encourage girls to attend the school, since 2015 HNTPO is implementing school feeding project in 5 districts of Uruzgan. Based on all these previous experiences, we propose to implement mobile psychosocial and GBV services using health promotion as gate way. Under this CHF 2nd allocation for 2016, HNTPO will conduct initial two weeks psycho-social and GBV training to 6 psychosocial workers(3 males and 3 females) who will then team up with 3 medical doctors to provide mobile services to the IDPs living in three districts (Chora, Tirinkot and Derahwod) of Uruzgan. The mobile team will be based in the district and will make daily field visits to the villages where IDPs are settled. They will provide health promotion session to a mass of IDPs, run Psychological First Aid to IDPs with moderate/mild psychosocial problems, provide psycho-social counselling sessions to those IDPs having severe psychosocial problems and identification of people suffering from GBV and providing preventive, responsive and referral services. HNI TPO has experience of implementing Malaria control and mobile health projects in Kunduz province.

A rapid consultation made by HNTPO local staff with relevant government and non-government stakeholders in Uruzgan showed that in Tirinkot, Chora and Derahwod districts IDPs are suffering from health, psychosocial and GBV related problems. The assessment also found a high patient load of IDPs in BPHS HFs and limited resources and staffing to provide required services to the IDPs. There is an urgent need for provision of mobile psycho-social, GBV and health services, which will be addressed through the implementation of the proposed project. A total of 46711  IDPs (13275 men,13817 women, 9613 boys  10006 girls) settled in 3 district of Uruzgan province. All the activities will be presented to the relevant stakeholders at provincial, district and community level and a coordination mechanism inthese level will be established for the smooth running of the project. 
The components of proposed interventions include psychological first aid, support groups, discussion groups, psycho-education and case management for women and men, culturally appropriate recreational activities for children with the goal to  prevention of Gender-Based Violence (GBV). The project will also focus on community education, awareness raising, training local actors on how to respond to victims’ needs and on the establishment of a referral system. The project will be managed by experienced staff with sufficient support from the Kabul office, and distance support from Amsterdam office.