NGOs and Mental Health: Initiatives and Progress

Abstract

Mental health care is far from adequate in South Asia leading to a huge gap in the delivery of mental health services. An effective resource which has sought to minimize this gap has been the non-governmental sector—the NGOs. There has been an upswing in the NGO movement in the last 2 decades, especially in the mental health sector. It is not just their numbers that have increased, but also the range of services offered by them.