Ongoing projects: Drug Prevention and Treatment

GLO/E69 - "Global Assessment Programme on Drug Abuse"

In 1998 the Special Session of the UN General Assembly on Drugs adopted a Political Declaration to eliminate or significantly reduce the demand for illicit drugs by the year 2008.
To respond to this request, UNODC developed the Global Assessment Programme on Drug Abuse (GAP) as a credible international follow-up to the Political Declaration of Member States to reduce the abuse of illicit drugs. The primary objective of GAP is to improve information on the magnitude and trends in global illicit drug consumption. GAP activities are carried out at the global, regional and national levels. The Central Asian region with its emerging drug problems was considered as a priority area for the working GAP and support has been provided since 2001 in building capacity of the national counterparts in drug abuse epidemiology and development of drug abuse information and monitoring systems. To this effect, GAP has been providing support to member states to build the necessary systems necessary for collecting reliable data to inform policy and action.

 

GLO/KO1 - ""Prevention of drug use, HIV/AIDS and crime among young people through family skills training programmes in low- and middle-income countries"

This project will implement evidence-based family skills training programmes to prevent drug use, HIV/AIDS and crime and delinquency among young people by strengthening and improving the capacity of families to take better care of children in 2 different sites in up to 21 different countries in 4 regions during the three phases of project. Local government agencies and/or non-governmental organisations in low- and middle- income countries will be supported by UNODC Field Offices in translating and systematically adapting evidence-based family skills training programmes to fit the local culture and language. They will be evaluated following a rigorous research methodology by local and international research institutes. This way the project will build the capacity of local institutions to develop, implement, monitor and evaluate family skills training programmes.

 

GLO/J71 - "Partnership for Action on Comprehensive Treatment (PACT) - Treating drug dependence and its health consequences / OFID-UNODC Joint Programme to prevent HIV/AIDS through Treatnet Phase II"

This project, building on lessons learned from the predecessor project GLO/H43, addresses the limited technical capacity for the provision of diversified and effective drug treatment and rehabilitation services, including their capacity to support HIV/AIDS prevention and care. It consists of the provision of technical assistance, identification and dissemination of good practices while exploring the possibilities for maintaining and enhancing field level activities. A global Partnership for Action on Comprehensive Treatment (PACT) will be launched in collaboration with WHO, to increase the level of awareness on addiction as a treatable multifactorial disease and effective drug dependence treatment and support its implementation.