- Achour AIT SIDOUN, psychiatrist, consultant ENABEL (Burundi/Belgium)
- Florence BAINGANA, psychiatrist, Manager WHO Office Africa Brazzaville (Republic of Congo, Uganda)
- Moumouni BONKOUNGOU, mediator / trainer, Rescue, IRC (Chad)
- Hilde BUTTIENS, Public Health expert, Memisa (Belgium)
- Souleymane COULIBALY, psychologist, CHU, Bamako (Mali)
- Xavier DE BETHUNE, doctor in public health (Belgium)
- Amadou Lamarana DIALLO, community worker (Guinea)
- Marie-Justine DIALLO, medical doctor, Fraternité Médicale Guinée (Guinea)
- Julian EATON, public health psychiatrist, LSHTM (UK)
- Hermann HESSOU, social worker, Terres Rouges (Benin)
- Boniface KABA YOU, nurse Psychiatric Dispensary at the village of Trinle-Diapleu (Côte d’Ivoire)
- Maman KABIROU IBRAHIM, community agent, COOPI (Niger)
- Jeanine KAMANA, medical doctor, Louvain Coopération (Burundi)
- Barthélemy KOUKOURA, lecturer, Réseau Africain pour le Bien-être et la Résilience (Togo)
- Jaak LE ROY, psychiatrist, consultant/Global trainer global MHPSS (Belgium)
- Consolata MAYONDO, psychosocial consultant (Burundi)
- Eric MESSENS, psychologist, Terres Rouges (Belgium/Benin)
- Begoña MONTANES, psychologist HI (Belgium)
- Jean Luc NKENGURUTSE, stakeholder in the decentralisation of the Burundi mental health sector (Burundi)
- Adelin N’SITU, psychiatrist, Centre N.P.P, Université de Kinshasa, Programme National Santé Mentale (DR Congo)
- Patrick RAZAFINDRADIMY, project manager prisons, Touching Minds Raising Dignity Programme (Togo)
- Eugène RUTUMBESA, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Rwanda (Rwanda)
- Elvire SOSOHOUNTO, social worker, St Camille Bohicon (Benin)
- Abdoulaye SOW, medical doctor, Fraternité Médicale Guinée (Guinea)
- Sow Gouagna TRAORE, Social Trainer Samusocial Mali and Technical Referent (Mali)
- Willem VAN DE PUT, anthropologist, Institute of Tropical Medicine (Belgium)
- Florence VANDENDORPE, sociologist & psychologist, Ministry of the Walloon-Brussels Federation and consultant (Belgium)
- Alex WON, nurse, Psychiatric Dispensary at the village of Trinle-Diapleu (Côte d’Ivoire)
- Maximilien ZIMMERMANN, specialist mental health and psychosocial support, HI, (Belgium/Switzerland)
Reference persons
- Faustin CHENGE (DR Congo), Alexandre DELAMOU (Guinea), Jean Paul DOSSOU (Benin), Olivier DOUVILLE (France),
- Frédérique DROGOUL (France), Jean Damascène IYAMUREMYE (Rwanda), Steven JANSEN (Rwanda),
- Hippolyte MANIRAKIZA (Burundi), Lansane MANSE (Burundi), Consolata MAYONDO (Burundi),
- Clément MEDA (Burkina Faso), Eric MUKALA MAYOYO (DR Congo), Pierre MONKORO (Mali), James MUGISHA (Uganda),
- Nianguiry KANTE (Mali), Stephen RULISA (Rwanda), Joseph RYARASA NKURUNZIZA (Rwanda), Freddie SSENGOOBA (Uganda),
- eter VENTEVOGEL (The Netherlands/Switzerland)
Organising Committee of the Be-cause health Working Group on Mental Health
Hilde BUTTIENS, Xavier DE BETHUNE, Jaak LEROY, Hippolyte MANIRAKIZA, Eric MESSENS, Begoña MONTANES, Willem VAN DE PUT, Florence VANDENDORPE, Maximilien ZIMMERMANN