Learning centre & capacity strengthening

IDPC civil society advocacy workshop in Accra, Ghana, February 2015.

One of IDPC’s key objectives is to strengthen civil society’s capacity to engage in drug policy making processes through workshops, webinars, tools, resources and direct granting.

This purpose responds to the ever-growing demand for training, technical assistance and support across a range of different audiences, regions and topics related to drug policy, as well as IDPC’s growing role as a principal grant recipient, project coordinator and onward grant provider to a wide range of civil society and community-led partners.

Check out the links below to access some of our key resources!

Resources

Drug decriminalisation

The decriminalisation of drug use and related activities is a strategic priority of the IDPC network. Our Decriminalisation portal includes various resources to support drug policy reform, as well as to build NGO capacity to promote decriminalisation in their local contexts.

IDPC drug policy advocacy training toolkit

The Toolkit can be used by anybody wishing to deliver trainings and workshops on drug policy advocacy to their civil society partners. It covers various areas of drug policy, civil society advocacy and harm reduction advocacy, and is intended as a menu of activities and content from which a facilitator can pick and choose the ones which best suit the context, audience and timeframe. This Toolkit was adapted for West Africa.

Studiomade

Civil society participation in UN meetings

IDPC facilitates civil society UN-level engagement by providing logistical and strategic support, communications, advocacy tools and resources. These include:

NGO In A Box

This initiative, developed by the Consortium of Networks of People who Use Drugs and the Harm Reduction Consortium through support from the Robert Carr Fund for civil society networks provides resources and tools to help NGOs establish robust governance mechanisms.

NGO In A Box website

Strategy meeting of the Harm Reduction Consortium. Photo: IDPC

Onward granting

IDPC onward grants a large proportion of our funding to various NGOs and networks, through a host of partnerships and projects. These include the Support. Don’t Punish campaign, which provides over 100 yearly small grants to local organisations and collectives to deliver high-impact campaigning and advocacy activities. In this way, our work promotes learning and capacity strengthening within our network and movement more broadly.