Transcript [English] - Eurasian Harm Reduction Network

Improving health and protecting human rights
for individuals, communities, and society
EURASIAN HARM
REDUCTION NETWORK
(EHRN)
FEBRUARY, 2014
Presenter:
Sergey Votyagov
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[email protected]
EHRN Mission
• EHRN Mission is to promote humane, evidence-based
harm reduction approaches to drug use, with the aim of
improving health and protecting human rights at the
individual, community, and societal levels.
EHRN Status
• In 2005 EHRN was granted a Special Consultative NGO
Status by the Economic and Social Council of the United
Nations (ECOSOC).
• This Status provides access to ECOSOC and its many
subsidiary bodies, the various human rights mechanisms
of the United Nations, ad-hoc processes, as well as
special events organised by the President of the General
Assembly.
EHRN Geographic Focus
EHRN geographic focus includes Central and Eastern Europe and
Central Asia (CEECA), which consists of 6 sub-regions:
• Baltics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)
• Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia)
• Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan)
• Central Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia,
Slovenia)
• European Countries of the Commonwealth of Independent
States (Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine)
• South-Eastern Europe (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia)
EHRN Strategic Objectives
• EHRN is a regional network of harm reduction programs and their allies from
across 29 countries in the region of CEECA. Together, we work to advocate for
the universal human rights of people who use drugs and to protect their lives and
health.
• Founded in 1997, EHRN now unites over 500 institutional and individual
members, tapping into a wealth of regional best practices, as well as expertise
and resources in harm reduction, drug policy reform, HIV/AIDS, TB, HCV, and
overdose prevention.
• All EHRN members contribute to advocacy efforts, technical assistance and
information-sharing aimed at achieving EHRN’s three main objectives:
• Reforming governmental and legal policies related to drug use and
harm reduction
• Building capacity for quality harm reduction services that meet the
needs of people who use drugs
• Increasing funding for harm reduction, especially from domestic
sources
EHRN Key Roles
• As a regional network, EHRN plays a key role as a liaison between
local, national and international organisations.
• EHRN ensures that regional needs receive appropriate
representation in international and regional forums, and helps
build capacity for advocacy, drug user community mobilization and
service provision at the regional and national levels.
• EHRN draws on international good practice models and on its
knowledge about local realities to produce technical support tailored to
regional experiences and needs.
• EHRN builds consensus among national organisations and drug user
community groups, helping them to amplify their voices, exchange
skills and join forces in advocacy campaigns.
EHRN Strategy
• In 2010 EHRN adopted the five-year Strategic Plan for 2010–2014.
• In 2011 it was reviewed in the course of EHRN’s effort to develop 11
regional proposals to the Global Fund.
• In 2014 EHRN will develop Strategic Plan for 2015 - 2019, which will
span two phases:
• Prior to the Global Fund project inception and the implementation
of the Global Fund project during 2014-2016
• Graduating from the Global Fund grant and sustaining EHRN’s
operations and programs after the end of the Global Fund grant
during 2016-2019.
EHRN Priorities
• Reforming governmental and legal policies related to drug use and
harm reduction
• Building capacity for quality harm reduction services that meet the
needs of people who use drugs
• Increasing funding for harm reduction, especially from domestic
sources.
EHRN Structure
• Steering Committee governs the Network and facilitates the fulfilment
of its mission.
• Founders’ Committee oversees the fiscal integrity and managerial
capacity of the Network’s executive body, i.e., EHRN Secretariat.
• Regional Technical Advisory Group (RTAG) acts as a consultative
technical body that advises the Steering Committee on Global Fund
matters.
• Secretariat runs the technical and administrative activities of the
Network.
EHRN Members
• EHRN is a membership based network.
• EHRN members - both individuals and organizations - come from the
public and non-governmental sectors.
• EHRN members include drug treatment and policy agencies, experts
and researchers, harm reduction service providers and networks, HIV
service providers, drug user and people living with HIV community
groups and activists, human rights organizations and various
supporters and experts from inside and outside the region.
• EHRN now unites over 500 institutional and individual members.
EHRN Key Partners
• UN Agencies: UNAIDS, UNODC, UNDP, WHO.
• International Civil Society Organizations: Harm Reduction
International (HRI), International Drug Policy Consortium,
International AIDS Alliance etc.
• Regional Networks: Eurasian Network of People Who Use Drugs
(ENPUD), ITPCru, etc.
• Private foundations: Open Society Foundations, Levi Strauss
Foundation, Robert Carr civil society Networks Fund, etc.
THANK YOU!
Eurasian Harm Reduction Network
Svitrigailos St. 11B
Vilnius LT-03228, Lithuania
[email protected]
www.harm-reduction.org