# Presentation: 490231

## International Network of Treatment and Rehabilitation Resource Centres –NIDA International Forum

**Juana Tomás Rosselló**
**Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Unit **
**June 2006**

## Treatnet

**Vision:**** **
- All persons whose lives are impaired by drug use receive a wide range of services

**Mission:**** **
- To reach out to service providers to improve the quality, accessibility and affordability of drug dependence treatment and rehabilitation services

## Overarching Goal

- Quality/Effective
- Accessible
- Diversified
- Affordable
**	****Drug Dependence **
**Treatment & Rehabilitation **
**Services**

**Notes:**
Add evidence for treatment effect for reducing demand, HIV transmission and others

## Project objective

*An **operational network** of *
*drug treatment and rehabilitation **resource centres** in all regions** *

## Strategy

- Reach common standards: capacity building
- Define good practices: working groups
- Demonstrate good practices
- Disseminate good practices
- Reach out + Expand the network
- Ongoing progress review + feed-back

## Why a Network?

- Multidirectional flow of information/knowledge
- Move tacit to explicit knowledge
- Develop new knowledge
- Access ad-hoc expert knowledge
- Distributed across cultures
- Capacity to reach out to others
- “Brokering”/import practices from one to other
- 					Multicultural Network/
- 					Community of Practice

## Organization- 2 Phases

_**Phase I**_
- Ongoing initiative
- 2005-2007
- Develop network
- Synthesise good practices
- Build capacity

_**Phase II**_
- Develop proposal in Phase I
- 2007-2010
- Scale-up/upgrade services
- Demonstrate and evaluate good practices
- Disseminate good practices

## Phase I - Resources

- Two years (starting August 2005)
- 20 Drug Treatment Resource Centres/Grants
- Capacity Building Consortium
- UNODC Field Office Task Force
- National commitment for sustainability
- UNODC regional & national treatment projects
- Links to WHO, UNAIDS, ILO, regional & national treatment institutions & networks

## Phase I - Outcomes

- Operational network - 20 Resource Centres
- Training package
- Increased technical capacity in RC
- Improved services for people with drug problems
- Good practice documents on 4 topics
- Wider network: Associated treatment providers, other networks, intl. agencies
- Proposal for Phase II

## Priority Topics

- Community-based treatment
- Role of drug dependence treatment in HIV/AIDS prevention and care
- Sustainable livelihoods for rehabilitation/reintegration
- Treatment in prison

## Key Players and their Roles 

- _Treatment Resource Centres_
- Focal point/coordinator
- Contribute to good practice documents&training package
- Participate in working group meetings
- Participate in capacity building events
- Enhance services in accordance to capacity building plan
- Plan local  projects for phase two
- Organise local arrangements for meetings (volunteers)
- Host site visits & provide ongoing technical assistance (volunteers)

## Key Players and their Roles (cont.) 

- _Capacity Building Consortium_
- (in consultation with all partners)
- Conduct a training needs assessment
- Develop a training package and test  it
- Develop & implement capacity building plan
- Conduct TOT & support training at RCs
- Coordinate exchange visits

## Key Players and their Roles (cont.)

- _Treatment and Rehabilitation Staff at GCS/PTRU_
- Overall project substantive guidance & coordination
- Identification of different partners
- Agreements w/ RC and on network modus operandi
- Coordination of the meetings and the network
- Overview of capacity building – training package, capacity building plans & delivery
- Overview of working groups & clearance of good practice reports
- Monitoring and evaluation·

## Key Players and their Roles (cont.)

- _UNODC Field Office Task Force  _
- Advice on detailed project planning
- Identification of priority topics
- Identification of & coordination with resource centres
- Advice on training needs assessment and training package
- Support/participation in network meetings
- Advice on feasibility study and planning for phase II
- Mobilization of national authorities for in-kind contribution, strengthening resource centres & commitment to sustainability

## Key Players and their Roles (cont.)

- _Partners_
*UN Agencies –  *WHO, UNAIDS, ILO
*Regional Organizations - *EU/EMCDDA,  PG, AU, OAS/CICAD, Colombo Plan,
*National Treatment Organizations and Networks*
*Independent Experts*

- Provide expert advise
- Participate in relevant meetings
- Coordinate on relevant initiatives

## Links to other Networks

- Links to NIATx: 2 common members, participation in NIATx learning event
- Links to  CSAT-ATTCs and NIDA-CTN through capacity building contractor
- Links to UNODC-supported Central American Network
- Further links to be explored:  Networking of Networks

## Lessons Learned

- Nodes
- Commitment
- Position in respective networks
- Willingness to share and develop knowledge
- Ties
- Response to a widely perceived need
- Network usefulness to individuals
- Common goal and specific tasks
- Social interaction essential. Face-to face meetings !
- Open to outside/loose connections to other networks

## www.unodc.org/treatnet

**Capacity Building Consortium**
**UNODC**

**International Network of Drug Dependence Treatment and Rehabilitation Resource Centres**

**www.unodc.org/treatnet**