National partners prepare to pilot the drug prevention instrument in Tajikistan

Twenty six national partners from Ministry of Education and Sciences, National centre for Monitoring and Prevention of Drug Use, Narcology service, Republican Healthy life style centre, Drug Control Agency, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Tajik National University, Tajik State Medical University, local hukumats, and NGOs participated in the National workshop on the development of the prevention tools.

CADAP 6 represents continuity of the EU policy and long-term engagement with Central Asian partners to help further strengthen their national policies in drug policy and drug demand reduction.  The programme is funded by the European Union and implemented by a Consortium from the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Poland and Germany led by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.

This workshop is aimed at the preparation for the preventive programme’s pilot implementation focused on adolescents who have initiated experiencing with use of psychoactive substances but still are not substance dependent. As an outcome of the workshop, the working group members agreed on the mechanism of the preventive programme’s pilot implementation (scenarios of education sessions, monitoring and evaluation of the prevention campaign, development of two flyers about the programme – for specialists and for clients, questionnaire, recruiting young people at risks for the programme, organization and logistics).

CADAP 6 with a budget of EUR 4.9 million is implemented in the framework of strategic cooperation between the EU and Central Asia based on the EU-Central Asia Drug Action Plan 2014-2020. During the period of 2001 to 2013 the EU has allocated EUR 20.7 million for the implementation of CADAP.

For more information, please contact: Ms. Mavjigul Azizulloeva, CADAP 6 National Coordinator, by phone (+992) 98 584 32 70, or e-mail: mavjigul.azizulloeva@giz.de