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affect them, including development strategies, plans and programmes. This ultimately requires capacity building of and investment in persons with mental health conditions. The proven benefits are all too evident from the HIV field. Capacity building and empowerment augurs well for better governance and development for society as a whole. This report thus fills an important lacuna and provides essential guidance on actions to be taken by all development stakeholders in order to improve the human rights situation for people with mental health conditions and direct society towards a better future for all. Clemens Huitink, Policy employee, International Affairs, Dutch Association for Mental Health and Addiction Care (GGZ Nederland) We welcome this WHO report on Mental Health and Development: Targeting people with mental health conditions as a vulnerable group. From our practice, we know that thus far people with mental health conditions are often overlooked when it comes to developmental aid. Mental health is not a very “sexy” issue for policy-makers and governments and thus often neglected. This report makes the case for the inter-linkage between mental health and a range of other subjects relevant to developmental issues. It shows convincingly that developmental aid, without paying attention to the mental health needs of the population, is often counterproductive. In a similar way it is also counterproductive when people who are directly affected by mental health conditions and their families are left out of the policy-making processes. GGZ Nederland is convinced that solidarity among countries and systems in bringing mental health policies more to a “state of the art” level will bring us forwards on the complicated road to development. The framework of this new report will guide us to continue with the work we are already doing and will guide us to step up our efforts to find more allies along this road. Noreen Huni, Executive Director, Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative (REPSSI) & Chairperson, Regional Interagency Task Team on Children and AIDS (RIATT), South Africa I fully support the argument in this excellent and timely document and look forward to working with WHO in its endeavour to uphold the economic, social and civic rights of people with mental health conditions within global, regional and national development processes. xii MentalHealthandDevelopment:Targetingpeoplewithmentalhealthconditionsasavulnerablegroup
Supportingstatements I congratulate WHO for this important work, targeted at developing policies, strategies and interventions in order to promote the inclusion of people with mental health conditions in poverty reduction and income generation programmes. This report reinforces our current action strategies and will help guide future directions. Akiko Ito, Chief, Secretariat for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities/UN Focal Point on Disability, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) The United Nations advocates for universal human rights and development for all – with or without disabilities – as fundamental goals and as essential foundations for peace, security and prosperity. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, together with other human rights and development instruments, advances this cause. The implementation of the Convention should be taken to the next level by concrete efforts by all stakeholders towards empowerment of persons with disabilities – especially whose situations have yet to be fully addressed, including those with mental health conditions. The report Mental Health and Development: Targeting people with mental health conditions as a vulnerable group addresses a great number of issues that require urgent attention for implementation of the Convention for persons with mental health conditions. As this publication demonstrates, we need to break down the barriers to participation and access which persons with mental health conditions face in their daily lives. All development efforts should be reachable to persons with mental health conditions in order for them to be both beneficiaries and agents for development - the premise for a society for all. As the international community prepares for this September 2010 Summit to review progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals, its message is clear: putting persons with disabilities – including those with mental health conditions – and their communities at the heart of our efforts is a proven way to advance the development agenda. We must continue to work for its implementation and its universality. Jorma Julin, Director General, Department for Development Policy, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland The findings of this report are highly relevant to the Finnish Authorities. In any society, certain groups of people face a higher degree of vulnerability than others. These groups are characterized as ‘vulnerable’ because they are more likely to suffer negative consequences in the event of external stressors. Any adverse life xiii
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