Huvadhoo Aid participated in the “NGO Capacity Development Workshop on Proposal Development” organized and facilitated by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) , on 31st October and 1st November 2010, at UN Building, Male’.
This programme is aims to strengthen capacity of NGOs working in this field, and identifying NGOs who will be as implementing partners to initiate/strengthen comprehensive community based approaches towards drug use prevention, treatment and care services for the drug using communities and their co-dependents.
The workshop was inaugurated by Vice President of Maldives, Dr. Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik. Speaking to inaugurate the workshop Dr Mohamed Waheed said active participation of civil society organisations was vital for the efforts to combat and prevent drug abuse in the Maldives.
Vice President Dr Waheed added that the current drug prevention programme was formulated with the intention of providing more assistance to NGOs to increase their financial and technical capacities to strengthen and widen their participation in preventing drug abuse and rehabilitating addicts back into the society.
The two-day workshop that began yesterday is a part of UNODC technical cooperation project – “Strengthening the national response to combat drug abuse in the Maldives” – which was signed between UNODC and the government on 19 January 2010. The project is funded by the European Union.
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