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Press and Promotion of the MEM

 

Workshops and Promotional Activities

Press Releases and Newspaper Articles

MEM Information Sheet (in PDF form)

 
WORKSHOPS AND PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES:
 
During the thirty-seventh regular session of CICAD, held in April 2005 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, it was agreed to increase activities to promote the MEM.

The principle objectives of the promotional activities (workshops or promotional events) consist of:

  • For the MEM results and its objectives to reach all persons involved in anti-drug policies on a national and hemispheric level. 

  • Establish the MEM as a diagnostic tool for the design and implementation of anti-drug policies and programs in each country and within an international context.

  • Communicate the transparency and multilateral nature of the MEM which is a unique characteristic and an important strength of the national and hemispheric reports.

  • Highlight the uniqueness of the MEM and differentiate it from other reports or evaluation processes, showing the benefits which institutions and States may gain from the Mechanism.

  • Strengthen the participation of the member states within the MEM process.

Index of Activities:

 

Año Países
2007
  • Panama

  • Haiti

 

2006
  • Costa Rica

  • Guatemala

  • Suriname

  • Paraguay

  • Venezuela

  • Colombia

  • El Salvador

  • Jamaica

  • Model OAS General Assembly

 

2005

 

 

2007

 

Click here to see all the MEM Workshops and Promotional Activities carried out during 2007

 

2006

 

Click here to see all the MEM Workshops and Promotional Activities carried out during 2006

2005

Promotional and MEM Awareness Visit to Dominica.

On September 12, 2005 a MEM Promotional Visit to raise awareness among various government agencies was made to Dominica.  The visit also  highlighted the importance and the benefits of the MEM.

Roseau, Dominica (Visits to the Ministry of Health and workshop at the West Indies University)

 

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A MEM Promotional Visit to Belize was made on August 29-30, 2006.  The visit consisted of meetings with authorities from various government agencies involved with the MEM process.  The meetings highlighted the roles of the governmental agencies during the evaluation period, how the MEM functions, and the benefits to the country provided by the MEM.

 

Training and MEM Promotional Workshop for national institutions that compile information for the MEM Questionnaire of Indicators.

Georgetown, Guyana

September 2005

 

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Promotional Workshop on the MEM and Inter-American Observatory on Drugs (OID).

August 2005

Visit made by the CICAD Executive Secretary, James Mack.  This visit was organized by the Consejo Nacional de Control de Sustancias Estupefacientes y Psicotrópicas (CONSEP) of Ecuador and consisted of meetings with different national authorities implementing drug control strategies.

Quito, Ecuador

August 2005

 

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Press Conference:  Presentation of National and Hemispheric Evaluation Reports from the Third Evaluation Round, 2003-2004 of the MEM.  The reports were presented to OAS member state representatives. 

Florida, United States of America

June 2005

http://www.oas.org/xxxvga/englishl/default.asp

 

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Meeting of Caribbean National Drug Observatories

Bridgetown, Barbados

June 14-16, 2005

A three-day meeting, coordinated by CICAD's Inter-American Observatory on Drugs (OID) was held in Barbados to highlight the critical role that research and information plays within national drug observatories, to promote the establishment and development of national drug observatories in the region, and to demonstrate the link between observatories and the MEM process, among other issues. Angela Crowdy, Coordinator of the MEM Unit, presented a brief overview of the MEM and addressed the recommendations assigned by the MEM to the Caribbean in the Third Evaluation Round.
 

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Press Releases and Newspaper Articles:
Click on the article title to read the following press releases or newspaper article.  These documents are in PDF format and some of these articles are only available in French or Spanish.

 

2007

2006

 

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

 

2000

  • Opening remarks of the Secretary General of the Organization of American States during the First Special Session of CICAD.
    Washington, DC, December 2000

 

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