The Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives has prioritised mental health within the national development agenda, a distinction shared by only a limited number of countries around the world. The 5Es framework is a strategic roadmap towards sustainable growth and economic stability, focusing on five critical pillars. A key pillar, Equity, addresses the fundamental issues of accessibility, inclusivity, and social justice in healthcare delivery and envisions MHPSS as a key area to focus on creating equitable access to mental health services for all population segments.

All cases referred by the Hamdard Force from the community were assigned to the clinical psychologists through their dashboards on the MHPSS portal. The clinical psychologists, also trained in implementing mhGAP-Humanitarian Intervention guidelines, managed stress-related conditions and provided psychosocial interventions for other mental health conditions at Tier 2. They directed 277 cases to the MyCare+ mobile application. This application is part of the MHPSS service model, hybrid in approach and designed as a scalable intervention for stress management.

As part of the pilot implementation of the Hamdard Force intervention (Tier 1) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 400 community mental health workers were trained in Haripur and Kohat to identify and refer people with MHPSS needs, through the Hamdard Force mobile application, which is integrated with the MHPSS web-portal. At Tier 2, a team of clinical psychologists supervised the members of Hamdard Force and assessed the referred cases.