11 May, 2022 INPUD’s bi-monthly members updates are intended to keep our members and supporters informed about INPUD’s recent activities, as well as updates from national/regional networks and relevant news in drug policy. The updates below cover the period from March through April 2022.
25 May, 2022 Join INPUD on 25th May , 13:00 CEST – 14:30 CEST for a webinar on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a key human rights mechanism where the human rights record of States are reviewed in five year cycles by other States as… Read More »Engaging and Impacting the Universal Periodic Review: Guidance for People who Use Drugs
In December 2021 the World Health Assembly (WHA) held a Special Session, the second-ever since WHO’s founding, and agreed to develop a ‘WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic preparedness’ – the so-called ‘Pandemic Treaty’. The decision establishes an intergovernmental negotiating body (INB)… Read More »Understanding the ‘Pandemic Treaty’ and it’s relevance for people who use drugs
29 April, 2022 As a part of the Global Fund’s CRG Strategic Initiative, INPUD organized a Peer Technical Support Hub in April 2022 on the topic of the Global Fund Complaints Mechanism and how it works for communities. The webinar familiarises networks and communities of… Read More »Global Fund Complaints Mechanism: How can people who use drugs use it effectively?
28 April, 2022 An estimated thirteen thousand people use crack cocaine in the wider Paris region. Recently the police, who have been harassing the community over the last three decades, even built a wall to block people who use crack from the rest of society.… Read More »Video: The Wall of Shame – Why Crack Consumptions Rooms are Needed in Paris
12 April, 2022 Pусский | Español | Français Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs) play a crucial role within the Global Fund model and have a potential to be transformative in ending AIDS, TB, and malaria. However, too often Global Fund programmes implemented at the national level and overseen by CCMs… Read More »Global Fund Country Coordinating Mechanism Evolution (CCM)
12 April, 2022 Pусский | Español | Français The Global Fund’s Community, Rights, and Gender Strategic Initiative (CRG SI) offers short-term peer-to-peer technical assistance to communities and civil society, including key population-led organisations and networks, to ensure that barriers related to community engagement, human rights, and gender equity are… Read More »Global Fund’s Community, Rights, and Gender (CRG)- Strategic Initiative: Short-Term Technical Assistance
1 April 2022 Surviving and Thriving: Lessons in Successful Advocacy from Drug-User Led Networks showcases what local and regional drug user-led networks can do when they have adequate resources through accessible and sustainable donor funding. The networks featured in these case studies took on projects… Read More »Surviving and Thriving: Lessons in Successful Advocacy from Drug User-Led Networks
13 April, 2021 ‘We Are the Evidence’: Community-Led Responses on Decriminalisation, Harm Reduction and COVID-19 is a discussion on why and how people who use drugs should be at the centre of advancing policy towards decriminalisation of drugs. INPUD, along with HIV Legal Network, UNAIDS… Read More »‘We are the Evidence’ – Community-led Responses on Decriminalisation, COVID-19 and Harm Reduction
22 September, 2021 This forum was held to familiarise networks and communities of people who use drugs with the concept of Global Fund Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) evolution, what value it brings to the community and how peers can get more engaged in Global Fund… Read More »INPUD Peer Technical Support Forum: Global Fund County Coordinating Mechanism (Video)