Dear friends,
ENCOD organises a research on the opportunities and capacities of drug user associations to actively participate in the design of policies that directly concern them.
This research will focus on two levels of policy making: the regional (Basque Country) and the European. The regional experience will be related to the drafting of a new regional action plan on drugs that is currently in process in the Basque Country.The European experience will deal with the evaluation of the former EU Action Plan (2005-2008) and the planning of the new Action Plan (2009-2012).
The project in the Basque Country will be coordinated by two ENCOD members: Ganjazz and La Regadera. National coordination in Spain is in the hands of Virginia Montañes and Joep Oomen will co-ordinate the European project.
Concerning the European project: one part of the research will consist of a questionnaire (
http://www.encod.org/info/QUESTIONNAIRE.html) for organisations. To all organisations of drug users: thanks for your collaboration in replying to this questionnaire.
A second part will be a series of interviews to drug user activists who will participate in the International Drug User Day (
http://www.encod.org/info/31-OCTOBER-1-NOVEMBER.html) event hosted by the Danish Drug Users Union in Copenhagen (31 October to 2 November).
The final part will be the organisation of a workshop with 21 representatives of drug users associations that will be held from 21 to 23 November in Vitoria, Spain (
http://www.encod.org/info/DRUGS-AND-DIPLOMACY.html). After that meeting, we will publish a report with suggestions and recommendations.
For the workshop in Vitoria, we will invite the representatives of 12 organisations from the Basque Country, 3 from Spain and 6 from the rest of Europe. Of these six, 3 will represent (mainly) cannabis user organisations and 3 (mainly) other drug user organisations.
If you have any questions at this moment please feel free to ask.
Best wishes,
Joep
www.encod.org
21-10-2008, 22:06
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