Ministry of Planning, Development & Special Initiatives
MHPSS Implementation Event KP
December 9, 2025
To mark the MHPSS pilot implementation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Provincial Minister of Health, Mr. Khaleeq ur Rehman chaired a high-level event on 4th December 2025 in Peshawar.
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Baltistan: Hamdard Force
November 27, 2025
As part of implementing MHPSS pilot service in Baltistan, and with the support of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Pakistan, a total of 70 community mental health workers have been registered and 55 have completed online Hamdard Force course to promote accessibility, acceptability, and scalability of mental healthcare at the level of the community in two target districts – Skardu (31) and Ghanche (39).
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Baltistan: Building capacity of primary care physicians
November 21, 2025
As part of a MHPSS pilot implementation in Baltistan, a mhGAP training workshop was held in Skardu on 11th November – 15th November 2025. This was attended by seventeen primary care physicians and two clinical psychologists working in the primary healthcare facilities in the region.
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Building capacity of primary care physicians & clinical psychologists
November 18, 2025
As part of implementing MHPSS pilot services in two target districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - Haripur and Kohat – four training workshops have been conducted from September 2025 to October, 2025 to train 76 primary care physicians and 12 clinical psychologists to strengthen their capacity for managing common mental health conditions.
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Hamdard Force: Capacity Building III
November 13, 2025
As part of the capacity building plan for implementing MHPSS pilot services in two target districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - Haripur and Kohat, a total of 396 community mental health workers completed the Hamdard Force online training courses in October 2025. Just under two third of the participants preferred to complete the course in Urdu.
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Hamdard Force: Capacity Building II
November 11, 2025
Based on a pre-defined inclusion criterion, and in a collaborative paradigm in the pilot districts of Kohat and Haripur, nominations were received for Hamdard Force from Departments of Health, Education, Special Education, Social Welfare, Women Empowerment and others.
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Mental Health Strategic Planning & Coordination Unit Health Section Ministry of Planning, Development & Special Initiatives