9 Jun 2021 The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH looking for consultants to develop a baseline study on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support for the Lake Chad Basin Region. The BMZ financed GIZ APSA project (support for the AU to prevent and manage violent conflicts and to consolidate peace within the APSA framework supports the activities of the AU in the Lake Chad Basin Region in the intervention area "Gender-sensitive measures for peace consolidation. The Boko Haram insurgency is almost ten years, the protracted armed conflict has displaced around 2.3 million people and caused severe socio-economic damage. The military response alone has proven insufficient, showing the necessity of a new approach encompassing comprehensive, multi-sectoral and coordinated efforts and humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) collaboration across borders to address the root causes of the conflict and prepare the ground for long-term peacebuilding and development. This approach is captured in the Regional Strategy for the Stabilization (RSS), Recovery and Resilience of the Boko Haram-affected Areas of the Lake Chad Basin. A ground-breaking initiative led by the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) and adopted by its Member States in August 2018 and endorsed by the African Union Peace and Security Council in December 2018.