Global Partnership on Alternative Development

 

This global project is based on the experience that isolated alternative development projects are usually insufficient to bring about sustained change, and that engagement in illicit cultivation needs to be understood and acted upon in terms of how it relates to broader national and regional political, economic, social and development problems. The project strategy was developed on the understanding that the objectives of human development, sustainable reduction in illicit cultivation, drug control objectives and the lessons learned by alternative development interventions need to be integrated into development policies, strategies and programmes. A major component of the project strategy consists of strengthening the capacities of the national authorities of key national and international development actors in participating countries to mainstream alternative development approaches, objectives and analyses into broader national and regional development plans and programmes. South-South cooperation between Andean and South-East Asian stakeholders is facilitated within the framework of the project.