Operative Dimension

Code

1.3

Year

2024

Component

C1 - National Drugs Observatories

Execution Level

Completed

Activity Types

• Root activity

Implementation

Based upon a South-South cooperation approach, the support that the CELAC countries can offer each other will be favoured, counting on the support and input by experts from the EMCDDA-EU and OID-CICAD in the development of activities.

Associated operational objectives

0.4 - Establish the necessary institutional contacts to avoid duplication with already developed initiatives and ensure synergies with ongoing initiatives, both within the EU and CELAC.
1.2 - Promote the establishment of sustainable information-sharing agreements between NAs, NDOs and other stakeholders in CELAC countries, which can provide key information to assess threats and deal effectively with the new psychoactive drugs.
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

Result/s & output/s:

• Intermediate products:
  • Review methods of the existing EWSs, design of a basic EWS model, conceptual and methodological design of the new EWSs (second year).
  • First draft of guidelines to facilitate the setting-up of National Early Warning Systems (second year).
  • Edition of guidelines to facilitate the setting-up of National Early Warning Systems (third year).
• Final products: Number of countries with a EWS stablished. Number of countries with a EWS stablished in process of establishment. Report on the implementation of the new EWSs, Report on the strengthening of the existing EWSs, Design of Sub-Regional Network of EWSs

Indicators

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

Principles

• Shared responsability
• Human rigths
• Gender perspective
• Public health
• Public security
• RDD-ROD balanced policy
• Good governance
• Sociocultural diversity

Approaches

• Attention to evidence
• Demand-driven
• Institutional support and reinforcement
• Planning and evaluation
• South-South cooperation

Institutions

SICAD - General-Directorate for Intervention on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies Portugal

EU Reference country (WG)

Institution Website

NBDP - National Bureau for Drug Prevention Poland

EU Reference country (WG)

Institution Website

JND - National Drug Board Uruguay

Leader country (WG)

Institution Website

MINJUSTICIA - Ministry of Justice and Law Colombia

Leader country (WG)

Institution Website

VLADA - Secretariat of the Council of the Government for Drug Policy. Office of the Government Czech Republic

Leader country (WG)

Institution Website

NDC - National Drug Council Trinidad and Tobago

Leader country (WG)

Institution Website

Participant Institutions

Participation

Participants

Open access documents

• Background (1)

Restricted documents

Reports