The DIMENSION project - Digital Empowerment for Mental Health in Tanzania - seeks to improve mental health care for people living with HIV in Tanzania by leveraging digital and community-based approaches.  This five-year project focuses on empowering healthcare workers through innovative, culturally adapted digital training tools, helping expand access to quality mental health support in low-resource settings.

By strengthening local capacity, the project responds to the urgent need for more accessible care. Healthcare workers will be supported through a structured manual based on EAAD’s Six-Step Depression Self-Help Program, role-play-based skills training, and the iFightDepression Tool. In addition, the EAAD Depression Info Website will be used to provide psychoeducation for patients, relatives and the general public.

By combining digital tools with culturally sensitive training approaches, DIMENSION aims to improve early identification and management of depression among people living with HIV. Beyond its immediate impact, the project seeks to develop a sustainable and replicable model that can be adapted and scaled in other low-resource contexts.

• Funded by the Danida Fellowship Centre under the Danish International Development Agency.

• DIMENSION is jointly coordinated by the Psychiatric Center Copenhagen in Denmark and the Tanzania’s National Institute for Medical Research, in partnership with the European Alliance Against Depression.

Protecting Mental Health in Times of Change (MENTBEST) is a five-year project that seeks to further promote EAAD’s proven Community-Based 4-Level Intervention and develop an innovative technology to offer mental health support to vulnerable groups across Europe. The project targets refugees / migrants, older people (above 65 years), young people (15-24 years), long-term unemployed and those with current or past mental disorders.

• Funded by the European Union

• Project partners

Modular Mental Health Toolbox (MentBox) is a three-year project that seeks to close the existing gap between the best available practices in mental health and the ability of EU Member States to implement them in vulnerable populations. The project's goal is to provide health ministries and other stakeholders with a set of evidence based tools they can use to address mental health challenges in their countries or in special communities. Both depression as the most important mental illness and subclinical mental distress will be addressed. Care will be taken to provide health ministries with a country specific digital manual, the Modular Mental Health Toolbox (MH-Toolbox), in order to facilitate the rapid use and implementation.

• Co-funded by the European Union 

• Project partners

Promoting Positive and Mental Health in Changing Work Environments (PROSPERH) seeks to provide resilience and coping skills for workers facing difficulties related to mental and physical health conditions, while also preventing severe mental health conditions, suicide risk, and self-harm. The five-year project involves 18 partners from 16 countries.

• Funded by the European Union 

• Project partners