Australian High Commissioner announces DAP Grant to The George Institute for Global Health

The district-level project by The George Institute, India has targeted building the capacities of select Distt. Mental Health Program teams in Hyderabad to use systems thinking approaches to identify and address bottlenecks. The project will help in understanding the mental health service availability, service gaps and challenges in the implementation of the District Mental Health Program.

The Australian High Commissioner to India, The Hon. Barry O’Farrell, and the Consul General – Chennai, Sarah Kirlew announced the Direct Aid Program (DAP) Grant to The George Institute for Global Health India at TGI India’s office in Hyderabad. The total budget of the program is INR 18,90,960. Grant asked by The George Institute for Global Health, India from DAP and approved is INR 9,90,960.

While announcing the DAP grant to The George Institute, India, The Hon. Barry O’Farrell, said, “I am pleased that we are able to support this important work through the Direct Aid Program administered by the Australian Consulate General for South India. Australia-Telangana collaboration and mutual learning to improve mental health care services will deliver benefits for best practice understanding in both countries.”

Professor Vivekanand Jha, the Executive Director of The George Institute, India said, “The George Institute is working through a range of projects to generate actionable evidence to support the identification and management of mental health conditions and looks forward to working with the local governments and other stakeholders. We are pleased that this work has been further enabled by the Direct Aid Program of the Australian High Commission to India, which reiterates the high level of engagement between the two countries in this key area.”

The key objectives and activities under this program include - understanding mental health service availability, service gaps and challenges in the implementation of DMHP in one district of Telangana, DMHP and state mental health program guidelines will be reviewed to list key program activities and gaps, building capacity in core concepts of systems thinking and application of systems thinking tools for collective problem identification and problem-solving, workshops with select district-level teams in and around Hyderabad, for building capacity in core concepts of systems thinking.

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