31st Edition:
Role of Civil
Society around Drug Policy in West Africa
We want to
use the thirty-first edition of the Africa in Focus show to reprise the issue
of drug policy in West Africa, which we commenced in Episode 25 of AIF when we
spoke to Araba Arhin, a former official of the WACD.
The WACD, West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) and the
International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) – in partnership with the Open
Society Initiative for West Africa, Kofi Annan Foundation and USAID – is
organising a “Civil Society Workshop on
Drug Policy in West Africa”.
This two-day workshop will build on previous meetings in West
Africa to further develop the capacity of civil society representatives in the
region on the issues of drug policy, drug prevention and treatment, harm
reduction, security and governance and effective advocacy.
The workshop is the first of two proposed workshops (the
second taking place in September or October 2015) – and forms part of a
regional project to outreach and disseminate the recommendations from the WACD
report, as well as being part of the collaborative efforts to create a West
African CSO Drug Policy Network.
To this end,
we will be speaking to two high-level participants who can help us
better-understand the concepts; challenges; opportunities around civil society
participation in drug policy in West Africa. In many respects, this two-day
meeting is blazing the trail on this kind of discussion, and we are certain to
build on it over time.
Also in the
show, we will speak to Marjorie Abdin of the CAADP National Team to give us an
insight into some of the challenges bedeviling that team as it seeks to promote
the AU’s CAADP programme on agriculture. What are the challenges, and
opportunities that need to be confronted?
Join us if
you can at 1pm on 10 February, 2015.
Guests in the studio:
Ø
Jamie Bridge, Senior Policy & Operations Manager, International
Drug Policy Consortium, UK
Ø
Adeolu Ogunrombi, Commissioner, West African Commission on Drugs
Ø
Kobby Blay, EbolaWatch
@14h30
On the line:
·
Marjorie Abdin , Federation
of Associations of Ghanaian Exporters/CAADP National Team @13h20
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