Charter of the Movement for Global Mental Health
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The Movement for GMH is a global network of individuals and institutions who are committed to further the goal of scaling up of evidence-based services for people living with mental disorders and protecting their human rights. This is the primary focus of the Movement.
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The Movement has developed directly from the Lancet Series on Global Mental Health (2007). The objective is to facilitate the implementation of the Lancet call for action.
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The Movement does not have any office, secretariat, chairperson, bank account or budget.
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The Movement is a coalition whose individual and institutional members invest their own resources to carry out activities that will advance the goals of the Movement. They can also raise additional resources for this purpose.
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The Movement is managed by an advisory group whose members and contact information are listed elsewhere on this website. These individual comprise authors of the original Lancet series on GMH; that author group was enlarged to make it more diverse, focusing especially on increasing participation of users, women and persons based on low and middle income countries.
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| 6. | Members of the advisory group are all volunteers. Their role is to: | |
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Support and advocate for the Movement. | |
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Maintain the website, appointing editors who are responsible for specific sections
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Propose new members of the advisory group, with a focus on maintaining and increasing diversity
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Provide, from time to time, summaries and analyses of the Movement’s activities, including plans for future actions, which will be posted on the website for members of the Movement to comment upon and use (e.g. for the advocacy campaign)
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Plan and conduct the Global Mental Health summits | |
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If you have any suggestions about this Charter, please email them to any member of the advisory group.
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