Project Description

Project Description

Against the above-described background of growing problems related to drug abuse the main goal of CADAP is to encourage a sustainable commitment in the field of drug addiction prevention and treatment as well as data collection on the drug situation within the Central Asian governments of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. To reduce the risks associated with the above-described drug related problems it aims at gradual reform of the system of drug addict prosecution, moving away from punitive approaches inherited from the Soviet era towards using knowledge-based international strategies and standards that support the implementation of internationally recognised  best practices of anti-drug policies.

All project activities, comprised into four components, focus on national and transregional capacity building. According to the heterogenic political and social conditions in the Central Asian countries and the differing state-of-the-art in drug policies all activities are designed in close cooperation with the national beneficiaries to conduct "tailor-made" actions corresponding to concrete national needs.
Capacities in the areas of health care, prevention and drug situation monitoring will be enhanced in coordination with other international programmes. Beyond that, the commitment of the consortium aims at a long-term participation of Central Asian states in international panels. There are three actions that will help to improve drug policies and reduce drug demand:

• Implement comprehensive and sustainable drug situation monitoring systems designed for informing decision makers, experts and the general public
• Foster modern drug treatment methodologies in the community and in prisons
• Develop realistic, culturally appropriate methods of drug prevention, and establish sustainable systems providing accessible, comprehensive and credible information on legal and illegal drugs, their characteristics and the inherent risks they pose. 

The technical project components are:

DAMOS – Drug Epidemiology Data Base Collection and Development
TREAT - Treatment Methodologies
MEDISSA - Media and Dissemination Strategies

These three components will be supported by the overall coordination component OCAN.

The German Federal Ministry of Health has entrusted the coordination of the CADAP project to the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. Dr. Ingo Ilja Michels, the former head of the office of the Federal Government's Commissioner on Narcotic Drugs of the German government, is leading the project from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.