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- 68th UN CND Side EventWho’s Afraid of Human Rights? quips the discussion topic for the INPUD-led Side Event at the 68th United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs on Wednesday 12 March 2025 at 1630 hours. Other relevant questions are: Who Values voice, choice, inclusion and engagement as a pathway to better health and quality of life? And: Who believes health, rights, and dignity for all people is a more useful starting point for… Read More »68th UN CND Side Event
- Standing Together on U.S. Cuts To our community of people who use drugs, The recent decision by the U.S. administration to terminate USAID programmes threatens devastating consequences for people who use drugs and other marginalised communities worldwide. It will only be through our stalwart resilience and the beating pulse of community that we will move forward despite the bleak outlook. Because we refuse to be cast back into a time before… Read More »Standing Together on U.S. Cuts
- Rita from WRADA steps up: Read the intervention hereIntervention presented on behalf of People who Use Drugs in Kenya by WRADA ‘s Rita Gatonye in February 2025 in Geneva at the UN Human Rights Spaces. People who use drugs in Kenya experience a range of issues that limit their access to health services and enjoyment of human rights as guaranteed by international human rights standards and the Constitution of Kenya of 2010. Criminalisation of drug… Read More »Rita from WRADA steps up: Read the intervention here
- Human Rights & Harm Reduction Heroes speak up for Kenyans who use drugs: The Amazing Three take the lead in Geneva this weekINPUD, AfricaNPUD and WRADA were represented by some of our amazing community leaders in Geneva this week to speak up for people who use drugs. Aditia Taslim, Ahmed Said and Rita Gatonye (respectively) cut the charismatic swathe our community is known for as “The Amazing Three”, as they presented our issues at a scheduled session of Member States and in several meetings with delegates at… Read More »Human Rights & Harm Reduction Heroes speak up for Kenyans who use drugs: The Amazing Three take the lead in Geneva this week
- Global Fund Grant-Making for People Who Use DrugsThis report unpacking the Global Fund (GF) grant-making process is essential reading for all drug user-led communities. Learn about the various stages and how our networks can participate to ensure that our community’s critical needs and priorities are addressed and included in each final grant agreement. There is a great deal of work to be fully involved in grant-making, from attending the relevant meetings and… Read More »Global Fund Grant-Making for People Who Use Drugs
- Global Fund Grant Revision ProcessTechnical 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 ensuring grants are of maximum… Read More »Global Fund Grant Revision Process
- Partnership Guide for Drug User-Led Networks: The Good, Bad and UglyThis 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 found, not only do partnerships… Read More »Partnership Guide for Drug User-Led Networks: The Good, Bad and Ugly
- How to Enjoy a Conference – a Harm Reduction GuideThe 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 to share with all participants attending… Read More »How to Enjoy a Conference – a Harm Reduction Guide
- International Drug Users Day 2024Written 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 central to the life of… Read More »International Drug Users Day 2024
- Global Consultation Forum on the Impact of Drug Policies on the Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights of People who Use DrugsJuly 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 knowledge and understanding of the… Read More »Global Consultation Forum on the Impact of Drug Policies on the Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights of People who Use Drugs
- Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) Engagement and why it is important for People who Use Drugs – a technical brief.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 its processes in a way… Read More »Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) Engagement and why it is important for People who Use Drugs – a technical brief.
- Anton Basenko at AIDS2024: Rise and Decriminalise!The INPUD Board Chair powerfully represented drug users at AIDS2024 Closing 27 July, rousing the audience to get loud for drug law reform.
- Stop prohibition to stop HIV AIDS says Clark, John26 July 2024 The Hon Helen Clark former PM of New Zealand & Chair of the Global Commission on Drug Policy and musician Sir Elton John joined forces this week to write an opinion piece to coincide with the AIDS2024 Conference. For the 25th anniversary of this important IAS event, they combined the considerable weight of their shared reputations to call for an end to… Read More »Stop prohibition to stop HIV AIDS says Clark, John
- Hanging by a Thread: Towards a Pandemic AgreementApril 2024 This strong document is INPUD’s most recent submission to the WHO-constituted Intergovernmental Negotiating Body, responsible for producing a Pandemic Agreement by May 2024. It presents the key issues for communities of people who use drugs for pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. INPUD’s critical response to the recent Revised Draft of the Agreement calls for “hard, actionable long-term commitment and political leadership to do… Read More »Hanging by a Thread: Towards a Pandemic Agreement
- Communities at the Centre: A report back on the Global Fund Grant Cycle 7 (Windows 1 and 2)28th September 2023 The Global Fund Strategy 2023-2028 places community leadership at its front and centre. Under Grant Cycle 7 (GC7), the Global Fund introduced changes to promote community leadership and engagement, harm reduction and human rights, and to support the scale-up and sustainability of community-led services. In 2022-23, the Global Fund’s Community Engagement Strategic Initiative (CE-SI) funded the Global Key Population-Led Networks, GATE, MPact,… Read More »Communities at the Centre: A report back on the Global Fund Grant Cycle 7 (Windows 1 and 2)
- Harm Reduction Best and Worst PracticesJuly 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 for harm reduction service providers… Read More »Harm Reduction Best and Worst Practices
- Our Rights, Every Body’s Rights – ResourcesThese 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 2021 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS,… Read More »Our Rights, Every Body’s Rights – Resources
- 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 scan (LES) is a community-led… Read More »Why using the Legal Environment Scan is important for people who use drugs.
- Global Funds Complaints MechanismHow 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 middle-income countries,therefore, ensuring effective implementation… Read More »Global Funds Complaints Mechanism
- Global Fund Grant Cycle 7 Technical GuideWe 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 for community-led organisations, particularly those… Read More »Global Fund Grant Cycle 7 Technical Guide