Technical advice released to amplify the voices of drug users in Global Fund’s mid-cycle grant revision On the heels of INPUD’s June 2024 well-attended webinar of the same name, Amplifying the voices of the community in the Global Fund grant revision process advises drug user-led networks on the practice of renegotiating (or reprogramming) country-based, signed-off grants mid-cycle. Designed as a pathway to… Read More »Global Fund Grant Revision Process
This Guide has been written to provide drug user-led networks with invaluable advice for building the sorts of partnerships that will advance our movement and make us stronger. It draws from the experience of our regional networks for making an effective audit of partnerships we have already forged and assessing new partnerships as they develop. As other key populations have… Read More »Partnership Guide for Drug User-Led Networks: The Good, Bad and Ugly
The AWID International Forum is both a global community event and a space of radical personal transformation. A one-of-a-kind convening, the Forum brings together feminist, women’s rights, gender justice, LBTQI+ and allied movements, in all our diversity and humanity, to connect, heal and thrive. PURPOSE OF HARM REDUCTION GUIDE The purpose of the guide is to create a brief and practical harm reduction resource… Read More »How to Enjoy a Conference – a Harm Reduction Guide
INPUD is seeking a committed and inspirational leader to join the London Secretariat as our next Executive Director. We are seeking a person who leads by example and is able to create and contribute to an organisational environment of openness, accountability, transparency and trust. As a membership-based organisation, the INPUD Executive Director will consult and involve others, leading from the… Read More »Executive Director – Job Description and Person Specification
INPUD seeks a committed team member to join the INPUD Secretariat to coordinate our work under the Global Fund Community Engagement Strategic Initiative (CE-SI): Long-term Capacity Strengthening of HIV Key Population Networks and Organizations (2024-2026) project. The primary objective of the project is to strengthen the capacity of national networks of people who use drugs in Nigeria, Tanzania and Kyrgyzstan… Read More »Global Fund Programme Manager
On International Drug Users Day, we call for recognition and celebration of our diverse community. On this day, we are all about drug user pride! Every year on November 1st, International Drug Users Day, people who use drugs all over the world celebrate our history and affirm our rights. INPUD was formally launched on International Drug Users Day in 2008… Read More »International Drug Users Day: How to Engage in #IDUD24
Written by Leah McLeod 1 November 2024 will mark our 16th International Drug Users Day, #IDUD24. And how far we have come in addressing our massive agenda, things like preventing & treating blood borne viruses; tackling stigma & discrimination; reducing fatalities from overdose; expanding harm reduction; and demanding drug law reform. And yet, despite this fistful of harm being so… Read More »International Drug Users Day 2024
July 2024 Congratulations to all involved in INPUD’s Global Consultation Forum on the Impact of Drug Policies on the Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights of People who Use Drugs: researchers, the 27 participants representing our global network, scribes, authors of the report. Earlier in the year, this small, representative group of people who use drugs harnessed their lived experience, regional… Read More »Global Consultation Forum on the Impact of Drug Policies on the Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights of People who Use Drugs
January 2024 The Global Fund Strategy 2023-2028 places more emphasis on community engagement and puts people and communities at the centre, and this principle should be embedded in one of its key instruments – a Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) and to be applied throughout Grant Cycle 7. One of the key principles of the CCM is to engage key populations in… Read More »Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) Engagement and why it is important for People who Use Drugs – a technical brief.
The INPUD Board Chair powerfully represented drug users at AIDS2024 Closing 27 July, rousing the audience to get loud for drug law reform.