What is known about the lives of women in drug production areas? What experience and skills do they have and how can they be used to improve the lives of smallholder families? The new publication "Raising Voices: Empowering female farmers in drug crop cultivation areas" summarises the experiences and stories of affected small farmers and aims to encourage political decision-makers and implementing organisations to include them in their development-oriented drug programmes.
The document describes successful medical-therapeutic treatment concepts and offers professionals a guideline for taking care of people who use methamphetamine.
Conference room paper submitted by the Federal Republic of Germany on the importance of harm reduction for people who use stimulant drugs (E/CN.7/2018/CRP.5)
Harm Reduction in drug policy works: The measures save lives and contribute to public health. This has been shown in practice and studies The Myanmar Government wants to learn from the experience in implementing the public health-oriented approach and has send a delegation to Germany. The high-ranking representatives from Myanmar were given a comprehensive insight into the work of various drug institutions during their study trip to Bavaria.
What is Sustainable Alternative Development (AD) and how does it transform the life of people in drug crop cultivating communities? The Mae Fah Luang Foundation with support of the Global Partnership on Drug Policies and Development explains how the AD approach can diversify livelihood opportunities to help impoverished and marginalised communities to thrive. AD puts people and their needs at the centre and offers a holistic solution to address the root causes of illicit drug crop cultivation while fostering sustainable development in balance with the environment.