MEETING OF CARIBBEAN OBSERVATORIES ON DRUGS

From Research to Policy to Practice

St. George’s, Grenada
September 10-14, 2007 

CICAD Executive Secretary James Mack informs Grenadian Prime Minister Keith Mitchell about the meeting's progress. Mitchell had been unable to attend the opening session due to illness.
 

The Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), an agency of the Organization of American States, along with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat convened a meeting of national drug observatories and a demand reduction training workshop during September 10 – 14 in St. George’s Grenada. The meeting of observatories is the second biennial meeting to take place and the first to include a training component for demand reduction practitioners.

The meeting was themed ‘From Research to Policy to Practice’ and this embodied the following broad objectives:

1. To present and discuss the findings of recent drug epidemiology surveys  and other studies;
2. To sensitize service providers on the use of research-based evidence for the development of policies and programs in the area of drug control and demand reduction; and
3. To strengthen the capacity of drug demand reduction practitioners to develop and deliver programs to special populations.

CICAD Presentations

• Review of Drug Research in the Caribbean
• Comparative Study of Drug Use among Secondary School
• Introduction to National Household Survey Methodology
• Introduction to MEM Process
• Review of the Third Round of the MEM
• Inter-American Supply Control Data System (CICDAT)
• Elements and Functions of a National Observatory on Drugs
• Institutional Strengthening Aspects of National Drug Observatories
• Online Capacity Building Program Caribbean
• OID Program to Strengthen Drug Research
• CICAD's Drug Treatment Strategy

Country Presentations

• Antigua & Barbuda Secondary School Survey
• Dominica Secondary School Survey
• Haiti Secondary School Survey
• Jamaica Secondary School Survey
• St. Lucia Secondary School Survey
• Barbados National Household Survey Report
• Suriname Focus Assessment Study of Prisoners
• Grenada Public Sector Employee Survey
• Barbados National Primary School Survey
• The Grenada Drug Information Network

Other Presentations

• The Policy Process - John Carnevale
• Information Networks and their Evolution  - Jim Hall
• Tobacco & Marijuana Use in Florida & USA - Jim Hall
• The Strategic Prevention Framework
• Inter-Agency Drug Control Training Center  (CIFAD) of France - Stephane Thomas
• European Union Support and Strategy for the Caribbean
• Explaining the Caribbean Integration Support Programme - Anna Rogalska-Hedlund

Working Groups

On the fourth and fifth day, participants broke into three groups to discuss and develop proposals for evidence-based drug policies.

• Working Group 1
• Working Group 2
• Working Group 3

 Final Report of Observatories Meeting (PDF)

List of Participants

Photo Gallery