The document, Contextualising MHPSS: A Feminist, Community-Based Framework for the Middle East, presents a feminist, community-based, and bottom-up approach to Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Services (MHPSS), centred around the experiences of marginalised communities in the Middle Eastern region. It consists of two main parts: a conceptual framework and an implementation model. Readers are encouraged to peruse both parts of the document for a deep and coherent understanding of the approach that it presents. The framework begins with an overview of the project’s background and aims and a review of the theoretical and conceptual foundations that inform the approach, including feminist, community-based, and bottom-up perspectives on MHPSS. It incorporates insights from both experts and marginalised community members to address gaps in existing models and provides general guidelines for implementing feminist MHPSS interventions. The implementation model documents a structured approach to applying the feminist MHPSS framework in El Hay El Gharbi, Beirut, Lebanon, showing how the conceptual framework works in practice and outlining the strategies, steps, and contextual adaptations that are needed to operationalise the framework. The model provides a flexible template that can be adapted and developed to suit other contexts and for working with different marginalised groups across the region, providing a practical roadmap for implementing feminist MHPSS interventions in diverse settings. 

It is available in English only.