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Harm Reduction Best and Worst Practices

July 2023 In 2016, INPUD commissioned a project that used in-depth, qualitative interviews with twenty peer drug user activists and harm reduction specialists from a range of different countries to develop a comprehensive set of seventeen key harm reduction interventions based on ‘best and worst practices’ in these areas. The result was a “Harm Reduction Best Practices Tool Kit”, intended… Read More »Harm Reduction Best and Worst Practices

TECHNICAL BRIEF: A Guide for women who use drugs on engaging with the (CEDAW)

CEDAW is a major international human rights treaty that provides the legal framework to ensure the rights of those who are most vulnerable, including women who use drugs. This technical brief has easy-to-understand information on CEDAW with practical guides that empower women who use drugs to assert their rights. Despite international recognition of the fundamental human rights of all, millions… Read More »TECHNICAL BRIEF: A Guide for women who use drugs on engaging with the (CEDAW)

Our Rights, Every Body’s Rights – Resources

These are the resources that were produced for the Our Rights, Every Body’s Rights training The purpose of Our Rights, Every Body’s Rights manual is to be a resource for conducting trainings for strengthening the capacity of people who use drugs to effectively advocate for progress on the 10-10-10 social enabler targets recently adopted in the Global AIDS Strategy and… Read More »Our Rights, Every Body’s Rights – Resources

Global Fund Complaints Mechanism

The Global Fund Complaints Mechanism is a tool that people who use drugs can utilise when reporting issues of corruption, fraud, human rights violations, mismanagement, and misuse of Global Fund funding to ensure that they are investigated and resolved. The Global Fund is the largest donor for harm reduction in low-and middle-income countries, therefore ensuring effective implementation of high-quality harm… Read More »Global Fund Complaints Mechanism

Why using the Legal Environment Scan is important for people who use drugs.

The Legal Environment Scan is a drug user-led monitoring toolkit designed for community organisations and their partners to support people who use drugs in assessing their legal and policy environment, developing appropriate recommendations for law and policy reform to remove barriers to access to essential HIV services and relevant health services, and raising awareness of those reforms. A legal environment… Read More »Why using the Legal Environment Scan is important for people who use drugs.

Global Funds Complaints Mechanism

How can people who use drugs use it effectively? The Global Funds Complaints Mechanism is a tool that people who use drugs can utilise when reporting issues of corruption, fraud, human rights violations, mismanagement, and misuse of Global Fund funding to ensure that they are investigated and resolved. The Global Fund is the largest donor for harm reduction in low-and… Read More »Global Funds Complaints Mechanism

Global Fund Grant Cycle 7 Technical Guide

We have produced Global Fund Grant Cycle 7 guide to support the engagement of people who use drugs within the Global Fund processes for Grant Cycle 7 2023 -2025 (formerly known as NFM4). The Global Fund Strategy 2023-2028 places community leadership at its front and centre, promotes investments in community-led responses including community-led monitoring, andhighlights the need to increase funding… Read More »Global Fund Grant Cycle 7 Technical Guide

Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Voices of People Who Use Drugs.

We are proud to announce the launch of our community-led research report, the Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Voices of People Who Use Drugs. This report gives a global perspective on the experiences of people who use drugs during the Covid-19 and evidence-based recommendations to inform the drafting of the Pandemic Treaty, an initiative of the WHO. Pandemic Preparedness and Response:… Read More »Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Voices of People Who Use Drugs.

Letter of endorsement from community-led organisations to welcome Scotland’s launch of a new vision for drug policy and practice.

The undersigned are community-led organisations promoting the health and defending the rights of people who use drugs in Scotland, in Europe and at the global level. We welcome and endorse the statement developed by Scottish Drugs Forum and specialists from the drugs sector. Organisations that signed the letter

INPUD is hiring Gender Focal Point for INWUD

21 June 2023 With the support from Love Alliance, INPUD is seeking to support a Gender Focal Point to increase the capacity of women who use drugs and the International Network of Women who Use Drugs (INWUD). The Gender Focal Point will initiate and mobilise online engagement with the community of women who use drugs, coordinate online events and engage… Read More »INPUD is hiring Gender Focal Point for INWUD