The French Harm Reduction Association will hold its 4th Harm Reduction Conference in Paris on Octobre 25-26. This year, the political change in France will of course have an impact on the conference programme. It's time to propose a new policy in France...
In the framework of the ACCESS project, I am responsible of organising a workshop on harm reduction and continuity of care for drug users in prison.
In the framework of the EU Civil Society Forum on Drugs contribution to the next EU Drug Strategy, I wrote a recommendation for safer nightlife in Europe on behalf the French Harm Reduction Association.
This recommendation is actually a annex to the Forum's recommendation on EU drug policy presented in April 2012 to the European Council.
We will see by the end of 2012 if this recommendation will have an impact on the next EU Drug Strategy...
> Read the recommendation on safer nightlife HERE
> Read the Forum's recommendation on EU drug policy HERE
The European Harm Reduction Network (EuroHRN) has been recently formed by ten organisations with a shared interest in advocating for and sharing knowledge on drug-related harm reduction.
The 1st European Harm Reduction Meeting, co-organised by the EuroHRN, the AFR and the city of Marseille, was organized in Marseille on October 6th-7th, 2011. Through plenary sessions and capacity building workshops, the meeting gathered the network's members and concerned stakeholders with the aim of:
As consultant, I helped the AFR to take part in the project and to organise the meeting (programme building, partnership coordination).
> read the report of conference...
More information on http://www.eurohrn.eu/
The partners of the Democracy, Cities & Drugs II project organised the New challenges, New solutions conference in Vienna on February 23rd – 25th 2011. This conference approached the DCD II topics that the working groups dealt with during the project, as well as the new challenges and solutions the local partnerships will have to tackle with.
This event made possible the participation of European Mayors, local elected officials, representatives of International and European Institutions as well as practitioners, researchers and experts active in the field of drug policies.
The result of this conference has been the Democracy, Cities & Drugs resolution.
As consultant, I was in charge of coordinating the conference Scientific Committee elaborating the programme.
The Prague Declaration is a statement of representatives of municipal governments, decision makers responsible for local and municipal drug policies, workers in the field of drug prevention, regulation, treatment, and harm reduction, and researchers in the field of drugs. It was prepared in Prague for the conference Urban Drug Policies in the Globalised World (September 30th – October 2nd, 2010) and it is open to be signed by anyone interested in urban, municipal and local drug policy.
I took part in the Prague conference and supported the dissemination of the Prague Declaration at the Democracy, Cities & Drugs conference in Vienna.
On May 6th, 2010 in the framework of the AFR training programme, I led a training session on European partnerships tagerting the French harm reduction NGOs.
This 1-day training intended to enable the participants to identify partnership opportunities in terms of practice sharing and advocacy at the EU level, and in particular:
7 participants from 6 French NGOs took part in the session: Aremedia, Spiritek, Avenir Santé, Bus 3132, PAEJ La Chapelle, Espace Charonne.
This training session was organised in the framework of the European Action on Drugs.
The European Action on Drugs (EAD)
is a European Commission's initiative designed
to provide European civil society with a platform to increase awareness and
commitment as regards drugs and the risks related to drug abuse, and to promote
dialogue and exchanges of best practice. The European Commission is
proposing that anyone who carries formal responsibility of some kind should make a commitment on a specific action that he/she will
undertake.
