Community-Based Drug Demand Reduction: Report on Five Demonstration Projects

Social Policy Section
Social Development Division, United Nations ESCAP

Community-based Drug Demand Reduction: Report on Five Demonstration Projects

ST/ESCAP/1552

This report presents the results of a regional project on the development of integrated community-based approaches to drug demand reduction executed by the Social Development Division. The ESCAP secretariat developed the project in response to numerous requests for assistance from members and associate members interested in developing and executing workable approaches to drug demand reduction, following an earlier ESCAP project on the development of programmes for drug abuse prevention. This project was implemented in five countries of the region, China, India, Nepal, the Philippines and Thailand with the generous financial assistance of the Governments of Australia and the Netherlands.

This report reviews the national situation in each of the participating countries, describes the project activities and implementation process in each of those countries, and reviews the effectiveness of project implementation. It is hoped that the report will provide guidance to the planners and implementors fo programmes aimed at reducing drug demand.

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