Cover Sheet Assessment 2022

ASSESSMENT COVER SHEET
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1. Project information
Project title MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM
Duration in months: 6 months
Total funding
requested
$1,000,000
Donor/Funding
Source
World health organization
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Rationale and background
2.2 Sustainable
Development Goals
Mental health and substance abuse treatment and prevention have
been recognized as health priority in both national and international
agenda. The mental health was included in SDGs in September 2015
and it has significant impact on community as many individuals will
receive needed help. The major plan is to strengthen treatment and
prevention of substance abuse and use of alcohol.
2.3 Overall purpose and
relevance
(including needs, issues and
baselines)
The mental disorder affects at least 25% of population in their
lifetime. It demonstrates a huge cost to healthcare system and mostly,
it affects vulnerable people through lack of understanding and
stigma. Inadequate service means that many individuals are left
behind with regard to treatment.
Mental is greatly underfunded despite its prevalence in society. Only
a small fraction is spent on mental health program (Walton, Shaw,
Barnet, & Ross, 2016). Little funding is allocated in mental health,
even reporting on mental health by donors and local government is
inconsistent and lack tracking.
The project provides information about mental health within the
community, activities that have been funded, benefits of delivering
mental health program and suggest a framework to grapple the issue
to espouse more investment.
Social disadvantage will be addressed as all people will be able to
access the services through the internet at free of charge irrespective
of gender. Also, all group will be equally be represented in the
implementation team.
2.4 Impact How will the project contribute to change in the long term? How
will it contribute to changing people’s lives?
The project will lead to increase financing mechanism, resource
base; increased advocacy and awareness, policy development, and
quality mental health initiatives
There are many long term economic and social benefits to the society
including lower cost of care, and also quality of life is improved. For
employer, there will be high productivity, less absenteeism and better
working environment. For local government, success of the program
is key indicator wellbeing and poverty reduction to the society. Also,
There will be cohesive families lless premature mortality and
suffering, and happier young people.
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Approach
2.5 Implementation Implementation Strategy: How will the project outcomes be achieved?
Clearly, describe the overall approach to be followed.
The program management will seek to collaborate with society elders,
church elder, health and labour institution and schools to promote mental
health program (Judd, & Humphreys, 2016). From such institution, clear
data will be obtained from people which will be given insight into
planning. People from respective institution will be educated on how to
identify, guide and provide mental health program. Several facilities and
specialist will be distributed to designated centres for special cases and
giving advanced treatment.
The individual will choose the way to report their problem through social
media or a smartphone app which will allow patient interact with
expertise. Use of internet being dominant, huge amount of people and
information can be collated for mental health purposes.
2.6 Project timeline The project will take six months
2.7 Stakeholders:
Beneficiaries and
partners
Who: families, students, youths and workers
Who: school administration, youth and community elders, health
professional and WHO expertise will collaborate to design an efficient
system and deliver for the wellbeing of local community
Who: adolescent, youth, adults, workers and elderly are the major group
that suffer from mental health. These groups are involved in consultation
during identification of the problem, solution and means which the
program will deliver. Involving all groups ensures that there is seamless
operation of the initiative.
Ownership: investment in information, communication and knowledge
helps reduce society problem and empower people to help them shape
decision which impacts them. Therefore, definition of each stakeholder
responsibility is sufficient to show sense of ownership and take
accountability of activities and results (Kiresuk, & Sherman, 2018). The
design of the program considers demands of stakeholders indicating that it
is an instrument of shared commitment and where every aspect is
negotiated. As such it creates local capacities and driver for such
activities.
2.8 Risk analysis and
mitigation
The major risk is that the funds all come from the donor. The risk can be
mitigated by transferring the risk to the service provider who will have
incentive invest in early intervention and prevention to reduce cost. Also
insurance cover is placed as proxy means as it will be able to collect large
pool of funds to reduce financial risk.
Succession plan. Sustaining the project for a long term may be difficult
after withdrawal of donor organization. Addressing the issue is priority as
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