Transcript Current Operational Arrangements - United Nations Office on Drugs

National Drug Control System
Operational Arrangements
NDS Version 5.1 – 10 March 2003
Maher Abu Ghali
Global Systems Manager
Information Technology Services
United Nations Office at Vienna
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Mandates
 1994 – INCB resolution
 Facilitate electronic reporting of statistics NDS 1,2,3 &
3.3e
 1999 – GA resolution
 Development Account – NDS 4.0 national and
international drug control modules
 2001 – 2002 – CND resolutions
 CN.7/2001/L13, CN.7/2002/L18 – NDS 5.0 enhanced
modules
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Objectives
 Assist national administrations in automating drug control
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Import/Export Authorizations
Pre-export notifications (precursor chemicals)
Licensing
Domestic distribution monitoring
 Assist national administrations in compliance with the
requirements of the drug control conventions
 Tracking estimates and assessments
 Tracking licensed quotas to establishments
 Preparation and submission of statistical return data to INCB
 Facilitate electronic communication on national, regional
and international levels
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NDS Tasks
 Develop a system that meets the objectives
 Gather, verify and implement changing
requirements from competent authorities and
update the system accordingly.
 Deploy the system and provide training in its use
 Support competent authorities using the system
and provide service releases
 Maintain the standards that the system is based
on such as EDI, HS and CAS
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NDS Team
 1994 – 1998 – No staff members working
full time on the system
 1999 – 2001 – 1.5 Staff members full time
working on the system
 2001 – 2002 – 2 Staff members
 2003 – 3 staff members
 We have a high degree of reliance on
contractual services
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Achievements
 NDS is accepted as a standard system for automating
drug control
 Endorsed by individual evaluation reports done by several competent
authorities
 Endorsed by regional organizations like OAS
 Endorsed by CND
 Endorsed by independent 3rd party evaluation
 Fully meets all user requirements and mandates
assigned up to date
 The system has been installed in 38 countries in more than 70 locations
 NDS adapts to the needs of countries that have few hundred
transactions per year up to countries that have millions of transactions
per year.
 The system fully meets the requirements of domestic and international
dug control.
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Challenges
 Huge task (a global system) in contrast
with little resources
 Consistency of funding level
 Changing requirements
 Lack or inadequacy of national IT support
at some competent authorities
 High turn over of personnel at some
competent authorities
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Lessons Learned
 Allocate more human resources to the
task – NDS team size is increasing
 Transfer IT know how to competent
authorities
 Discuss funding arrangements with donors
and recipients
 Establishing a schema to prioritize
response to requests received from
competent authorities
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The Plan Forward
 Concentrate on increasing the number of
countries in production with limited number
of new installations
 Continue maintaining the system
according to user requirements
 Propose advanced technologies to
streamline the processes
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Questions?