How to improve organisational staff support? Suggestions from humanitarian workers in South Sudan

Hannah Strohmeier¹, Willem F Scholte², Alastair Ager^3
1 MSc, MA, Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Institute for Global Health and Development, Queen University, Edinburgh, UK; Antares Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
² Antares Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; MD, PhD, Equator Foundation, Diemen, The Netherlands; Amsterdam UMC, Department of Psychiatry, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
³ Institute for Global Health and Development, Queen University, Edinburgh, UK; Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA

Correspondence Address:
Hannah Strohmeier
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, EH21 6UU, UK

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None

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DOI: 10.4103/INTV.INTV_22_18

• Organisations need to ensure staff have adequate access to psychosocial support services
• National and international staff have different priorities regarding staff support and organisations need to reflect these in their provision of services
• A unified understanding of staff support is required to manage expectations of staff and hold organisations accountable.