Activities

COPOLAD closes this training cycle, with editions held in Quito (Ecuador) and Asuncion (Paraguay)

Andean countries with a history in the field of Alternative Development participate, as well as countries new to the matter willing to deepen in this field.

Hosted by Paraguay in Asunción, counts with the participation again of the countries gathered at the first workshop of this series, attending to the sequential character of the adopted methodology.

The main goal of this Workshop is to generate a space for the collective construction of knowledge and best practices exchange, which will contribute to moving forward to a better understanding of the concept of Value Chains for a sustainable development. During the Workshop, the following actions will be taken: the outcomes' exchange regarding the work made since the first Workshop by each country, the analysis of actors, services and the regulatory environment where business is done, the identification of bottlenecks, opportunities and the definition of working lines, and finally to agree the next further steps to be taken to set up the third and last phase of this capacity-building activity. 

This meeting aims to review the available evidence in the area of criminal reforms related to drug offences and facilitate the exchange of information and to identify encouraging experiences in EU and CELAC and the common trends in the drug-related criminal laws for both regions.

The meeting aims to bring together senior drugs policymakers from the CELAC and the EU countries. It is focused on two main topics: The Internet and the synthetic drugs.

Held in Quito, (Ecuador) on 9th and 10th May 2017 and counts with the participation of delegates from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay and Peru. It uses a South-South cooperation model between countries with a broad experience in the field of Alternative Development -AD- (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru) and other countries in the region interested in the topic (Guatemala, Paraguay and Mexico). It allows putting in common the basic concepts of the value chains, in addition to sharing experiences in this area to facilitate the exchange of good practices and mutual learning on value chains for projects originated from AD projects.

Concrete experiences are presented and a space for reflexion among all participating countries is offered, with the participation of technicians working on AD in each country, representatives of the regional or local government, as well as representatives of associations of producers involved in AD projects.