The Democracy, Cities and
Drugs projects (DC&D) are the alliance of a network of 300 European cities with
organisations issued from 7 European networks of the civil society. This
alliance aims to promote local and integrated responses to the drug phenomenon.
Based on the comparison between the experiments undertaken by a pilot network of
cities and ONG, the project intends to support the creation of local
partnerships and to set up a sustainable network of exchange of know-how.
Based on the lessons learned from
the 1st Democracy, Cities & Drugs project (2005-2007), the DC&D II
project 2008-2011 has as objective to support EU cities into develop local,
partnership based drug policies, involving the relevant stakeholders (local
authorities, health services criminal justice services, communities, including
visible minority ones, and drug service users) so that a coordinated,
participative, targeted, and thus resource effective approach can be developed
towards drug-related problems.
The DC&D II project is based on a European network
of cities sharing their practices among 5 thematic platforms as well as 4
national platforms of cities (FR, IT, PT, RO).
I was the initiator of the networks' alliance and the manager of the 1st project (2005-2008). I am now involved as consultant in the second one (2008-2011) in order to develop external cooperation between DC&D and other European networks and institutions.
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