Total population: 2,7 million Total territory: 1,5 million sq.km Density: 1,8 sq.km per person Main survival meaning: animal

agriculture 2/3 of the total population –

Nomadic One third live in Ulaanbaatar,

capital city

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Implementation: Multi-sectoral level Approach: Human rights based

approach Partners: Ministry of Health; Ministry of Education; Ministry of Social Welfare and Labor; Ministry of Construction and City

Planning; National Commission of Human Rights; National Authority for the Children;

There are over 23,443 people with mental illness in Mongolia /according to CBR survey 2008: Place: 6/;

32% of them live in urban area; 68% of them live in rural area; There is a National Center for

Mental Health in Ulaanbaatar city and Mental health department in each Province Hospital;

Around 70 – 80% is discriminated; Stay at home; No jobs; Bad attitude from the general

populations; Feeling alone; They are treated as someone who

are need to be stayed far from the people;

No understanding; Don’t believe them that their

family member can do something;

Get bored; No active; Don’t know how to deal with

their children;

We have two good examples: Hovd province (1400 km in the

west) Suhbaatar province (600 km in

the east)

CBR - 1998 Total population: 85897 Number of PWD: 4310 Number of persons with mental

illness: 210 40% live in the province center

Micro project to integrate persons with mental illness in the community was iitiated in 2003 with the financial support of AIFO;

Project venue: Mental Health department at the Regional Diagnosis and Treatment Center of Hovd aimag

Beneficiaries: 12 patients

Vegetable (potato) growing; “Ger” Canteen at the Aimag

Hospital; Producing felt products like

slippers; Beads products; Knitting; Stitching;

Family members appreciated the action and started to help to the doctor;

Patients’ disease severity is getting improved;

The repetition of the disease is getting far;

The group had owned their land for vegetable cultivation;

CBR - 2008 (EU co-funded project);

Total population: 53785 Number of PWD: 2113 Number of persons with mental

illness: 90 60 % live in the aimag center

A micro project to integrate persons with mental disorders in the community was started in 2008 with the financial support of AIFO and EU project;

Project venue: Mental Health department at the Province Hospital

Beneficiaries: 15 patients

Producing safety waste box for the use of hospital using the old boxes of milk;

Making a bed sheet and pillow using the residual cotton;

The 15 patients are meeting in every Monday, Wednesday and Friday regularly.

The patients help the medical staff to make Safety waste box. Up-to-date the patients had made 50 safety boxes.

The Province hospital buys the boxes. One box costs 450 tugriks (0,25 euro) and earned 22500 tugriks (12 euro).

Very important: they share their life experience and they are feeling much relaxing.