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BasicNeeds-Pakistan by Nadeem Wagan
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2. Introduction
BasicNeeds is an international development
organisation, which works to bring about lasting
change in the lives of people affected by mental
illness and epilepsy. The organisation has built an
innovative approach that tackles peoples’ poverty,
as well as their illness. By ensuring that their basic
needs are met and their basic rights are respected.
Established in 1999 by Chris Underhill with
funding from Andrews Charitable Trust and the
Joel Joffe Charitable Trust, BasicNeeds has
pioneered a way of working, which places people
with mental disorders at the heart of all that it does.
3. Interventions areas of BasicNeeds
BN working in 5 continents of the world
Europe
Africa
Asia
Latin America
Australia
4. Model of BasicNeeds in Pakistan
The model is formed of 5 separate but interlinked
modules; these are:
Capacity building
Community mental health
Sustainable livelihoods
Research
Management and administration
5. Cross cutting themes
Working in partnership
Animation
Gender development
Participatory techniques
Flexibility
6. Getting started
Feasibility
Identifying partners
Programme planning
Identifying donors and securing funding
Assembling the team
8. Forums for capacity building
Filed consultation
Other consultations
Self- help group
9. Field consultation
A field consultation is typically the starting point of
building capacity and one of the founding programme
activities.
This activity brings together people with mental
disorders, their carers and families, and partner
organisations.
Other consultations
The field consultation is the first of many consultations
that continue to be held throughout the lifetime of the
programme.
10. Self- help group
Self-help groups play multiple-roles and are
established for a range of purposes.
For example, carers and people with mental disorders
may come together to form, or join, a group to
encourage better integration
11. Tools for capacity building
Animation
Research
Awareness- raising and sensitization
Games and songs
Trainings
12. Animation
Animation is that stimulus to the mental, physical,
and emotional life of people in a given area.
which moves them to undertake a wider range of
experiences through which they find a higher degree
of self-realisation, self-expression, and awareness of
belonging to a community.
Research
Individuals’ capacities are also built through the
process of generating data and research.
Life stories are a primary data source used for analysis
in research.
13. Awareness-raising and sensitisation
Awareness-raising and sensitisation campaigns are
used widely to challenge pre conceptions, change
attitudes and share information about mental
disorders.
A variety of methods are used in awareness including
street, theatre
personal counselling
sensitisation workshops
consultations
media campaigns
14. Games and songs
Awareness-raising Games and songs, also known as
energisers.
are introduced in many group activities within a
programme.
They are a means of helping a group of people,
possibly strangers, to get to know each other and
bond.
15. Trainings
The range and breadth of training that is carried out
within a programme is considerable.
Therefore, whilst acknowledging that training is a key
component of capacity building
17. How does it happen?
Build partnership
Community mental health services
Identification
Follow up support
18. Build partnership
Correct diagnosis and treatment is an important step
towards recovery for a person with a mental disorder.
Often people with mental disorders, are also living in
poverty will not have had access to the mental health
services that they require.
Community mental health services
In some cases, clinics may be held at existing health
facilities,
such as hospitals or health centres and are wholly
provided
19. Identification
Once regular community mental health services are
established,
it is important that people with mental disorders
attend them.
However, a person with a mental disorder may be less
visible in their community,
perhaps physically hidden or not welcomed at
community events because of their illness and the
stigma that so often surrounds it.
20. Follow up visits
Community psychiatric nurses continue to support
community volunteers to monitor the people under
treatment,
provide support to carers and appropriately advise and
report on the progress of each of the people
22. Assessment of livelihood opportunities
Home visits
Making link with development organizations
Income generating and productive activities
Self help group
New business
Access to resources
Returning to education
Therapy and income generation entering into productive
work
New skills
23. Home visits
Home visits facilitate a culture of work and self-
sufficiency amongst people
recovering from mental disorders and their families by
providing encouragement and support, guidance and
mentoring and information on opportunities.
Making link with development organizations
In pursuing a sustainable livelihood,
a person recovering from a mental disorder may opt
to return to a previous occupation
or decide to pursue other options that require
additional skills or capital.
24. Income generating and productive activities
There is a real diversity of employment and productive
work that result from this module.
Individual level, people recovering from mental
disorders have returned to their previous occupations
Developed new skills, started businesses and entered
into new professions and livelihoods.
25. Self help group
The self-help groups have been specialising in
goat and chicken nurture,
gardening of vegetables,
farming of rice, maize, pineapples, beans and
sesame productions.
New business
Establish new business
26. Access to resources
Returning to education
Come back to education
Therapy and income generation entering into
productive work
New skills
28. Research methods
Participatory action research
Outcome studies
Policy studies
Baseline study
Primary data
Life stories
Individual files
Clinical files
Process documents uses of evidence
Influencing policy and advocacy
Evidencing efficacy and challenges
Knowledge base
29. Participatory action research
Participatory action research forms a significant part
of BasicNeeds’ research work and is integral to a
programme.
The process involves cycles of data collection, analysis,
feedback and reinterpretation with the outputs
used to assess need and the effectiveness of
interventions
30. Outcome studies
Outcome studies build on the data generated through
participatory action research
use it to evaluate the efficacy of the model outcomes.
The purpose of this type of evaluative research is to
evidence how effective the interventions of the model
are in bringing about real change in the lives of people
with mental disorders
31. Policy studies
Policy studies involve specific, one-off pieces of
research
that focus on a particular set of issues that
significantly affect intervention quality or model
outcomes.
Often the reason for commissioning a study will have
resulted from issues highlighted through participatory
action research and the outcome studies.
32. Baseline study
A baseline study is a review of the situation of the
programme area specifically looking at the lives of
people with mental disorders and all of those factors
in the external environment that affect them.
Primary data
Primary data collection is an on-going process,
which involves complete documentation of the lives of
people with mental disorders, their carers and
families, via a number of formats.
Life stories
Life stories are a way in which the lives and
experiences of people with mental disorders can be
recorded, as told by them.
33. Individual files
Every person with a mental disorder who is involved in
the programme will have an individual file.
Such files are a factual account of the individual,
including information on their background and
history; their medical information
including type of mental illness,
symptoms and treatment
their family situation.
34. Clinical files
As with individual files,
clinical files are kept for every person with a mental
disorder participating in the programme
Process documents uses of evidence
All field consultations and focus groups involving
people within the programme are recorded via process
documents.
35. Influencing policy and advocacy
The research methods described above generate a
body of evidence that is used for many purposes.
Evidencing efficacy and challenges
The knowledge gained from the research discussed
above contributes to demonstrating the efficacy of
and the challenges faced when implementing the
model for mental health and development.
Knowledge base
The evidence generated through this module,
contributes to a significant knowledge base that serves
two main purposes
38. Fundraising
Without funding, putting the model for mental health
and development into practice would not be possible
Managing and building partnership
All of the programmes that are currently running are
dependent on partnership work for their success.
Partnerships are formed with a range of organisations
Partner meetings
Partner meetings provide a platform for all
organisations involved in the programme to share
information and experiences and learn from each
other.
39. Monitoring
All the activities carried out and
details of the people who benefit from them are
tracked within the programme.
Activity tracking sheets, statistical tracking sheets
process tracking sheets are used by BasicNeeds and its
partners to collate this information.
Financial management
Setting accurate budgets and monitoring income and
expenditure occurs throughout a programme.
40. Reporting cycle
Partner organisations collate the monitoring data on
monthly basis and
then submit quarterly reports to BasicNeeds
describing what has occurred in the programme over
the last three months.
Programme evaluation
Evaluations are undertaken at two points in the
lifetime of a programme –
one halfway through and one at the end of a
programme’s funding cycle (normally every three or
four years). Typically,
the mid-way evaluation is carried out internally and
an external evaluator completes the final evaluation.
42. Community mental health training
Research training
Documentation training
Animation training
Delivering sustainable livelihoods training
Management and administration training
43. Community mental health training
Building on the capacity of existing primary health
care or community infrastructure,
the training equips participants with the skills to
undertake and deliver more effective mental health
care.
Research training
The research approach adopted by BasicNeeds uses
participatory processes that place the stakeholders at
the heart of generating and analysing the data.
Within the model, people such as health workers,
community workers or partner organisations may be
involved in carrying out research.
44. Documentation training
A strong feature of a programme, is that everything
that takes place is thoroughly documented
including life stories,
process documents
individual and clinical files
Activity and statistical tracking sheets
the various reports (quarterly, annual and
partner).
45. Animation training
Animation transcends individual modules and is vital
to delivering change, increasing capacity and
empowerment.
Delivering sustainable livelihoods training
The sustainable livelihood module is often delivered
in partnership with development and other
organisations or institutions and
helps individuals to access opportunities and
resources to make a living.
46. Management and administration training
The management and administration training
provides partner organisations with relevant project
management skills required to implement the aspects
of the programme they are responsible for.
Topics such as,
preparing logical frameworks,
budgeting, finances
reporting are offered to partners where there is an
identified need.
47. Training for people with mental
disorders, their carers and families
Managing illness training
Employment or productive work training
Advocacy training
48. Managing illness training
To sustain effective treatment, people with mental
disorders, carers and family members need to know
how best to manage their illness.
Employment or productive work training
Sustainable livelihoods training enables people
recovering from a mental disorder,
carers and family members to pursue a path that will
lead to employment or productive work.
The training is highly specific and can range from
horticulture skills to bicycle maintenance, from
mechanics to business planning.
49. Advocacy training
Advocacy training aims to equip people with mental
disorders, their carers and families with the skills and
abilities to demand the services
they are entitled to and the confidence to speak up for
their rights.
50. Roles
Community workers
Coordinating and running the activities such as field consultations and
community meetings
Helping a person with a mental disorder to pursue a course of treatment
Assisting in the establishment and operation of self-help groups and
cooperatives.
Supporting and encouraging a new business venture
Identifying a person with a mental disorder and referring for treatment
Helping at mental health camps and outreach clinics
Providing follow-up support, managing side-effects and relapses
Recording and documenting life stories and maintaining individual files
Providing the link between the person with a mental disorder and
BasicNeeds/partner organisations
51. Mental health professionals
Mental health professionals play a very important role
in
diagnosing,
treating
assisting people with mental disorders in their
recovery.
Including people like
psychiatrists,
clinical psychologists,
clinical social workers
psychiatric nurses, their primary involvement in
the programme is within the community mental
health module where they carry out a number
of functions and duties.
52. Animators
The animator has “a special responsibility to stimulate
people, to think critically, to identify problems, and to
find new solutions
53. Traditional healers
The significance of traditional healers in many poor
peoples’ lives
and the part they play in diagnosing and treating
mental disorders must be given due emphasis.
Within the programmes, relationships have been
built with healers and in some cases a strong
collaboration has developed between the two
parties.
Partners
54. Partners
Effective partnerships help BasicNeeds run effective
programmes. Partners increase the reach of the model,
complement and add value to the work and support its
sustainability. Depending on which aspects of the programme
require partners any of the following organisational groups
could be approached:
Community-based organisations
Development organisations
Community-based rehabilitation organisations
Primary and mental health care providers
Micro-credit organisations
Training and educational institutions
Self-help groups
Government departments
55. The model’s impact
A better quality of life for poor people with mental
disorders