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1st Meeting of the Working Group (WG) Early Warning System
- Start date
- 12/09/17
- End Date
- 13/09/17
- Place
- Bogotá, Colombia
The aim of the meeting is to further knowledge about the EWS already working and also the current situation of the countries who express their interest at implementing an EWS, as well as to take the methodological and conceptual decisions needed to move forward regarding this goal.
Operative Dimension
- Code
- 1.3.1
- Year
- 2017
- Component
- C1 - National Drugs Observatories
- Execution Level
- Completed
- Activity Types
- Implementation
The first meeting of the Activity 1.3 (Work group on Early Warning Systems) took place the 12th and 13th of September 2017, at Bogota, Colombia.
Activity 1.3 (Promotion and facilitation of the creation of Early Warning Systems at national levels in the CELAC countries) is focused on technical assistance needed to allow the establishment of agreements for the exchange of information among the National Agencies, the National Observatories and other key institutions. The final objective is to stablish Early Warning Systems in these countries.
The work group formed by the next Spanish speaking countries: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia (leader country) Ecuador, Uruguay (leader country); Portugal (European reference country). The English speaking group was formed by Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Jamaica, Poland (European reference country) and Check Republic (European reference country). Also participated COPOLADs’ task force and the Inter-American Observatory on Drugs (OID/CICAD/OAS)
- Associated operational objectives
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1.3 - Test, develop or update evaluation and monitoring tools, processes and tasks, necessary to deepen the knowledge of the drugs situation in CELAC countries with well-established NDOs.
- Results
- Presented and discusses the main results of the surveys on the characteristics and scope of the existing SATs (Spanish-speaking group and Anglo-speaking group)
- Discussed the main conditions and obstacles in the implementation of a SAT
- Defined the basic (conceptual and methodological) design scheme of a SAT
- Defined the work plan in the future
- Defined the guidelines to design the subregional SAT network
- Defined the work agenda and present the e-room
- Indicators
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Promoted the establishment in CELAC countries of national EWS, though the onset of sustainable information-sharing agreements between NAs, NDOs and other stakeholders, which can provide key information to assess and deal effectively with the new threats of psychoactive drugs.
The percentage of CELAC participating countries having a national EWS, has increased, at least a 50% (from baseline situation).
Theoretical Dimension
Institutions
SICAD - General-Directorate for Intervention on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies
Portugal
Institution Website
EU Reference country (WG)
VLADA - Secretariat of the Council of the Government for Drug Policy. Office of the Government
Czech Republic
Institution Website
Leader country (WG)
Participant Institutions
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Participation
Participation for regions
Participation of countries for region
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E-rooms
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Related activities
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1.3 - South-South Cooperation: promotion and facilitation of the establishment of national Early Warning Systems (EWS) in CELAC countries
Activity Information
- Description
- Operative Dimension
- Theoretical Dimension
- Institutions
- Participant Institutions
- Participation
- Participants
Activity Content
- E-rooms
- Restricted documents
- Photo gallery
- Related activities