Table to define psychosocial interventions
By Catherine Daubrege
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Gaza: les effets pervers de la bonne conscience
Sylvie Mansour
Durant l’offensive menée par l’armée israélienne à Gaza entre le 27 décembre 2008 et le 18 janvier 2009, 1417 personnes ont été tuées par l’armée israélienne à Gaza. Si 236 étaient des combattants, la grande majorité étaient des civils: les chiffres officiels rapportent la mort de 255 policiers non combattants et de 926 civils incluant 313 enfants et 116 des femmes. Il faut ajouter à ce décompte macabre plus de 5300 blessés, parmi lesquels 1606 enfants et 828 femmes .
Questionnaire for PSWG members to evaluate the need for trainings in psychosocial in the NGO
Presentation prepared by the PSWG to introduce the need for a psychosocial cluster in Nahr El Bared
Arabic Version
Presentation prepared by the PSWG to introduce the need for a psychosocial cluster in Nahr El Bared
Minutes of workshop to develop a frame work for the PSWG
نتائج ورشة العمل من أجل تطوير إطار عمل لمجموعة عمل النفس-إجتماعي
23 October 2009
Date: 23 October 2009 , Venue: Zoukak Association
Introduction
19 individuals from 15 organisations have actively attended this workshop and spent most of day working on the different aspect or topics. Few others joined in later on during the day to participate in the last session. According to the participants, the workshop was a necessary step in order to put the coordination process between different stakeholders working in Palestinian refugees camps right on track as well as finding practical means to put things into action.
In general the day was fruitful and there was constant interaction and information sharing between participants.
Minutes of PSWG Meeting (28-05-09)
- Definition: The meeting began by talking about the definition of psychosocial interventions who was sent to all the participants during the past weeks. The definition received a number of remarks, therefore it was decided that the group will meet on Tuesday 9th of June at 9 am to decide on the final text of the definition. All NGOs are welcome to send remarks and comments by email before this meeting. However, the definition agreed on during this meeting will be considered as the final version. For all those who can not attend the meeting, please let the group know your remarks on the definition before the 9th of June. Also, please notice that the main points agreed on by the group during pre6vious meetings to create the definition will not be reviewed or changed, for a concern of respecting the work of the group. After designing the final definition, an agreement letter will be sent to all PSWG NGOs in order to be signed by the NGO.
Updates
• UNRWA has some funds to implement workshops for psychosocial supporters. However, their need is to learn about specific interventions with children.
• Website: Mona (MSF) has contacted Bassem Shit (Lebanon Support). She exposed to him the kind of documents and access the PSWG needs from a website. Lebanon support is supposed to send her a list of prices.
• On the other side, Widad (UNRWA) will look for a way to have the Website as a page of the UNRWA website.
• Some NGOs still did not fill the matrix, please send it when it is ready it will help for the definition of ‘psychosocial interventions’
Dear All,
According to the last meeting for the PSWG which was in 2 of February at UNRWA Office, the group worked on setting up two main tools for Psychosocial projects in Palestinian camp:
