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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… Read More »Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) Engagement and why it is important for People who Use Drugs – a technical brief.

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

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.

Universal Periodic Review: How People who Use Drugs can Engage and Impact State Reviews

2nd September, 2022 The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a United Nations human rights mechanism that monitors, analyses, and highlights human rights violations. In this mechanism, Member States undergo a review of their human rights record conducted by other States and civil society in four-to-five-year cycles. Each UPR review cycle results in the States under review receiving and accepting recommendations… Read More »Universal Periodic Review: How People who Use Drugs can Engage and Impact State Reviews

Media and Social Media Advocacy Tip Sheet

2 August, 2022 Media and social media are powerful tools for strengthening advocacy efforts among drug user-led organisations. Effective media advocacy can sway public opinion and influence decision makers, while social media can help with communications, building communities and inspiring action. However, due to an often hostile environment for people who use drugs, conducting media and social media advocacy can… Read More »Media and Social Media Advocacy Tip Sheet

Digital High-Level Advocacy Tip Sheet

2 August, 2022 Conducting advocacy in online environments is more important than ever. While this shift has brought certain advantages, it can also bring problems and limitations, especially for drug user organisations operating within spaces which are hostile to our community. With this in mind, INPUD has developed this tip sheet on conducting digital high-level advocacy as people who use… Read More »Digital High-Level Advocacy Tip Sheet

Women who Use Drugs in Kyrgyzstan: Experience of Writing and Working on a CEDAW Shadow Report

6th June, 2022 Русский Over the last several years the Kyrgyzstan organisation Asteria, led by women who use drugs, has been engaging in the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), with the support of INPUD. Asteria partnered with a coalition of NGOs to develop and submit a shadow report documenting and visibilising rights violations against women from… Read More »Women who Use Drugs in Kyrgyzstan: Experience of Writing and Working on a CEDAW Shadow Report

Global Fund Complaints Mechanism: How can people who use drugs use it effectively?

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 people who use drugs with the concept of the GF Complaints Mechanism and Office of… Read More »Global Fund Complaints Mechanism: How can people who use drugs use it effectively?

Global Fund Complaints Mechanism: How can people who use drugs use it effectively?

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29 April, 20222:30pm London Time As a part of the Global Fund’s CRG Strategic Initiative, INPUD is organizing a Peer Technical Support Hub on the topic of the GF Complaints Mechanism and how it works for the communities. Register for the webinar here: bit.ly/3xe7YwF The objective of the call is to familiarise networks and communities of people who use drugs… Read More »Global Fund Complaints Mechanism: How can people who use drugs use it effectively?