Planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating prevention activities with the active involvement of youth and the community

This page contains tools to help you plan, implement, monitor and evaluate prevention activities that are effective and that involve youth at each stage of the project.

We have collected tools to help you monitor and evaluate your prevention activities with the active involvement of youth and the community in a new separate page. Ideally, you should think about monitoring and evaluation already while you are planning your prevention activities. In this page, you can find general guidance on planning an effective prevention response to the substance abuse situation of a target group or a community. You can find tools that discuss more in depth the issues of monitoring and evaluation of substance abuse prevention activities here.

If you have any questions about these tools, please do not hesitate to write to us. You can find three different kinds of tools.

These are tools that have been developed by the Global Youth Network project on the basis of both the experience of our Network members and of international research. They are meant to be 'how to' guides, including broad principles for action illustrated by examples. If you are interested in the hard copy of the publication, please write to us.
Please understand that printed copies of these documents will only be available while supplies last and that orders for more than one copy will be prioritized for youth and organisations with limited access to the Internet.
Thank you for your interest in advance!

This section includes some articles about good practices in the field of drug abuse prevention that have been sent out on the youthnet listerv. We feel that their principles and examples are still valid and interesting.

UNODC works in prevention also through our Field Offices, who often produce prevention materials suited to different countries and regions. We have tried to pull them together here, in case there is something relevant for your country and region. Moreover, like you, we are constantly looking around for interesting materials from other organisations and we provide you with a link or a scanned copy. Please note that in this case, UNODC is not responsible for the content of the site.

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A PARTICIPATORY HANDBOOK FOR YOUTH DRUG PREVENTION PROGRAMS

A Guide for Development and Improvement

Understanding Drug Abuse/ Why do young people use drugs?

Arabic (PDF-230KB), Chinese (PDF-1,060KB), English (PDF-156KB), French (PDF-154KB), Russian (PDF-137KB), Spanish (PDF-167KB)

Basic Prevention Principles Arabic (PDF-309KB), Chinese (PDF-1,060KB), English (PDF-151KB), French (PDF-133KB), Russian (PDF-116KB), Spanish (PDF-153KB)

Full version Arabic (PDF-4,618KB), Chinese(PDF-9,657KB), English(PDF-3,005KB), French (PDF-2,782KB), Russian (PDF-3,404KB), Spanish (PDF-3,017KB)

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EQUAL PARTNERS

Often, you will find that you may need to organize a youth event as part of your project. These are important opportunities to genuinely empower youth and allow them to develop a stake in your success. For this reason, we have also developed a guide on organizing for-youth-by-youth events

Arabic (PDF-2,022KB), Chinese (PDF-32,488KB), English (PDF-904KB), French (PDF-1,034KB), Russian (PDF-1,082KB), Spanish (PDF-2,211KB)

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YOUTH CREW HANDBOOK

This handbook is an example from the Drug Abuse Prevention Forum which was held in Banff, Canada, April 14-18 1998. It is a resource handbook to assist the youth crew in performing their responsibilities and tasks, as well as other important information about scheduling, events and conference venues.

A STRONG START!
Good practices in using a local situation assessment to begin a youth substance abuse prevention project

This publication presents the good practices identified - together with UNODC and WHO - by more than 100 community-based organisations in Southern Africa, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe on the basis of their experience of planning a prevention response to substance abuse among the youth of their communities. Available in all languages.

NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND PROGRAMME PLANNING

A Global Youth Network Training Workshop

A complete training kit! The materials have been developed on the basis of the "Participatory Handbook for Youth Drug Prevention Programs" and have been used, inter alia, in South and Southeast Asia, East Africa, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. We hope that you will be able to use them in your own countries.
The training kit is available in English in a 5-day and in 3-day version.

Thanks to the kind assistance of our colleagues in the UNODC Regional Office for Central Asia and in the UNODC Regional Office for West and Central Africa, most of the sessions are now available also in French and Russian!

Monitoring and Evaluating Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Programmes

This is a handbook for practitioners who want to improve the monitoring and evaluation of their programmes for the prevention of substance and drug abuse among youth. You will find the handbook in a page dedicated to tools to help you monitor and evaluate your prevention activities with the active involvement of youth and the community.

This section includes some articles about good practices in the field of drug abuse prevention that have been sent out on the youthnet listerv. Some of you may not be familiar with all of the terms used. Most of the time, you will be able to figure them out by looking at one of the tools in the next section. If you still do not understand, write to us at youthmail@unodc.org, and we will be happy to help you out!

Examples of Good Practices

'Socio-economic situation as risk/protective factor'

Address protective and risk factors (PDF)

Programme emphasising a comprehensive approach: Creating Lasting Family Connections (CLFC)

Seek comprehensiveness (PDF)

Develop programmes according to risk and use levels. Universal prevention (PDF)

Universal prevention programme: Your Life: Your Choice!

Alcohol trends among youth in Europe

Early use of substances (I)

The use of substances among students of a Thai vocational school

Illicit use of temazepam

Heroin finds new life as club drug

Early use of substances (II)

Implementing research-based programmes faithfully (I)

Implementing research-based programmes faithfully (II)

	United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific - ESCAP Young People and Substance Abuse: Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation This is a training guide that was developed by ESCAP to respond to the increase in substance abuse among young people in the Asia and the Pacific region. The objective of the guide is to support the overall development and implementation of programmes to address substance abuse among young people. Introduction and resources (PDF-764KB) Module 1 Understanding Substance Use (PDF-4,636KB) Module 2 Principles and Strategies for Intervention (PDF-2,117KB) Module 3 Treatment and Continuing Care: Principles and Strategies for Intervention (PDF-2,195KB)
	Health Canada Preventing Substance Use Problems Among Young People - A Compendium of Best Practices The compendium presents evidence-based direction to effective programming for a broad range of prevention activities. It provides information on ways to prevent substance use problems among young people; information on effective programs to reduce harm for youth already using substances; and descriptions of 39 exemplary programs for youth. http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ahc-asc/alt_formats/hecs-sesc/pdf/pubs/drugs-drogues/prevent/...
(PDF-708KB)	National Institute on Drug Abuse - NIDA (U.S.A.) PREVENTING DRUG ABUSE AMONG CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS A research-based guide for parents, educators and community-leaders (2nd edition) This guide summarizes academic research on drug abuse prevention in a way accessible to everyone. It covers issues such as risk and protective factors, community planning and implementation, basic prevention prevention principles. It also describes prevention programmes that research has shown to work. You can download the guide here and look for further information on the NIDA website. http://www.nida.nih.gov/nidahome.html
	Department of Health and Ageing, Australian Government THE PREVENTION OF SUBSTANCE USE, RISK AND HARM IN AUSTRALIA A review of the evidence The researchers examined international and national data, literature and programs that provide evidence of good practice in preventing or delaying the onset of drug use and that address the risk and harm known to be associated with drug use. The monograph is so extensive that it was decided to also produce a summary of the monograph's research and findings for use by people who require an overview of the findings on research into prevention. You can download the guide at the website of the Department of Health and Ageing of the Australian Government. http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/content/health-pubhlth-publicat-document-mono_prevention-cnt.htm
	World Health Organisation (WHO) in collaboration with UNODC Workbook for Project Operators This workbook is for project operators involved in the Global Initiative. A Project Operator is an individual designing or organising activities as part of the Global Initiative. They may be youths, parents, youth leaders, teachers, social workers or health workers. Most of the project work should take place in the community, bringing prevention measures home to individuals, families and the community as a whole. Others involved in prevention work can also use the workbook. Facilitator's Guide This Facilitator Guide has been developed in order to make it easier to plan and implement the Workbook training course. The learning process structured in the Workbook for Project Operators should be supported by the input and efforts of the individual and the whole group (when in a group training setting).
	Drogues Savoir Plus A Good Practices Prevention Guide in French produced by Mission interministérielle de lutte contre la drogue et la toxicomanie (MILDT) and Comité francais d'éducation pour la santé (CFES). http://www.drogues.gouv.fr/fr/index.html
(PDF-243 KB)	A Resource Guide for Municipalities Community Based Crime and Violence Prevention in Urban Latin America The purpose of this Resource Book is to provide Latin American Mayors with information on how to design violence and crime reduction programmes. It brings together the best information found on best practice principles, step-by-step approaches, and examples of international municipal crime and violence prevention and reduction strategies.
	By the Way... Where is My Target Group? This document seeks to point out where to approach young people, how to involve them effectively in planning and implementation, and how to keep them motivated and committed along the way. It also provides Practice examples and lessons learned that may serve as a toolkit for trouble shooting. http://www2.gtz.de/dokumente/bib/03-0464.pdf