Dear friends and colleagues, 

The Commission on Narcotic Drugs is starting very soon! In fact, tomorrow, Monday, 14 March 2022. 

Once again, all sessions, as well as the side events, are to be held online due to the pandemic. The good thing about that means that, you can still follow the plenaries and the side events! That’s why we thought that you might appreciate having all the links in one place.

GENERAL LINKS TO FOLLOW CND

• Link to 65th session with general information on organizational arrangements: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/commissions/CND/session/65_Session_2022/65CND_Main...

أصبحت تصميمات تجارب الفعالية والتنفيذ الهجينة منتشرة بشكل متزايد في أبحاث التنفيذ. مع دخول التصاميم الهجينة عقدها الثاني من الاستخدام الواسع النطاق ، يطلق قسم علوم التنفيذ في Frontiers in Health موضوعا بحثيا لتغذية خطاب المجال حول ماضي وحاضر ومستقبل التصاميم الهجينة في ترجمة المعرفة. نرحب بالتقديمات لكل من البحث الأصلي و / أو الموجز والمراجعة والأساليب ومقالات المنظور. تتناول الدعوة التقييمات النقدية للتصميمات الهجينة ، والاستخدام المبتكر للتصميمات الهجينة في التجارب الحالية ، والتقدم في التصاميم الهجينة في التجارب المستقبلية ولكنها غير مقيدة عندما يتعلق الأمر بوجهات نظر إضافية في أوراق...

The World Health Organization’s Less Alcohol Unit, Department of Health Promotion, the Alcohol Research Group, and the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research are pleased to announce a new scientific research and writing mentorship initiative. 

The initiative aims to support early-stage researchers from low- and middle-income countries in their work to analyse, report and publish a study related to strengthening alcohol policies tackling the determinants driving the acceptability, availability and affordability of alcohol consumption. The initiative aims to accelerate the finalisation...

COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) was classified a pandemic on March 11, 2020, with early reports of the disease occurring in the Middle East and North African (MENA) area. On January 2021, the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (WHO-EMRO) reported 5,566,708 confirmed cases with 131,886 fatalities to date. Since 2016, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) area has seen a modest but steady growth in the harm reduction response.

Little is known about the region's health response and the situation of drug users (PWUD) during the outbreak. During COVID-19, the MENA Harm...

The VNGOC together with the UNODC Civil Society Unit will be holding two webinars to present and discuss the World Drug Report 2021, which will be launched on 25th June.
 
VNGOC are looking for civil society speakers wishing to present at these webinars, on how they use the data compiled in the World Drug Report each year and how these data impact their work. 

• The first webinar will be held on 13th July 2021 and will focus on Asia, Oceania and Europe.
• The second webinar will be held on 15th July 2021 and will focus on Africa and the Americas. 

Each webinar will comprise welcome remarks...

UNODC’s Strategic Vision for Africa 2030 outlines our mission to provide more safety to Africa’s people, government and institutions from drugs, crime, corruption, terrorism and illicit financial flows.

The UNODC Vision 2030 seeks to strengthen crime prevention, enhance justice, address organized crime, ensure a balanced response to drugs, improve the rule of law and bolster resilience.

ICUDDR  has announced they will be hosting an implementation course entitled “Developing University-based Drug Demand Reduction Academic Programs” for our members in Africa.  The purpose of the course is to equip academic staff with relevant knowledge, skills, attitudes and competencies to develop sustainable DDR academic programs that meet local needs and align with university and regulatory bodies goals and objectives.

This course is still in development, and facilitation will begin Wednesday, May 19, 2021.  Sessions are 90 minutes long and will be held every Wednesday for 27 weeks.  The...