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Workstream 3: Actions and Interventions

Actions and Interventions

This Workstream is one of three iterative workstreams around which the work of GEMMS will centre.

Drawing on the learnings from Workstreams 1 and 2, and building on the participatory process, the overall objective of the Workstream 3 is to identify opportunities and pathways to generate migrant- informed policy and practice that can disrupt the gendered violence-poor mental health cycle among migrants. Workstream 3 looks to answer two questions:

  1. What approaches (bio-psycho-social, trauma-informed rehabilitation, arts-based community- and peer-supported) are amenable to address the intersecting risks of gendered violence and poor mental health among migrants? And
  2. What is the acceptability and accessibility of a co-designed integrated public health, and clinical actions for providers?

Our Approach

In approaching these works, we are guided by the insights of policy scholars who demonstrate that although public interventions can achieve some target outcomes through top-down policy adoption, the most successful policy and programmatic implementation on the ground comes only when these interventions are fully contextualised and embedded in local norms and beliefs.