Ecuador
We support Ecuador in the implementation of its 2023–2025 National Plan for the Comprehensive Prevention and Control of the Socioeconomic Drug Phenomenon.
We collaborate with the country in strengthening the National Drug Observatory and improving prevention and telephone assistance for people with problematic drug use, as well as in the control of drug chemical precursors.
Likewise, the gender approach has been applied to initiatives on Comprehensive and Sustainable Alternative Development (AD-DAIS).
How do we support the country?
Strengthening of the National Drug Observatory
Drug demand reduction
Progress has been made in discussing an interinstitutional cooperation agreement for the establishment of the national network of researchers on the drug phenomenon and mental health.
Incorporation of the gender approach into a rapid drug-use survey among university students.
- Development of the care Guide for Line 171 (option 6): Telephone counselling for people experiencing mental health crises due to problematic drug use and consumption.
- Training has been provided to counselling staff on telephone advice, crisis management and psychological first aid related to problematic substance use.
Control of chemical precursors
Comprehensive and Sustainable Alternative Development (AD)
Support to the Ministry of Interior (MI) in developing and approving 1 base manual for the management and final disposal of chemical precursors. The manual has helped the MI’s Substance Administration Directorate improve its performance in the institutional policy of “reducing to zero” precursor warehouses.
Training of security force personnel in the use of the manual.
Contribution to defining the development of institutional software to analyse, monitor and control transactions involving substances subject to regulation.
- Technical support for the design of the urban DAIS pilot project ‘Sin presión hay diversión’, aimed at preventing and reducing drug demand among adolescents and young people, with the participation of civil society.
- Inclusion of the gender approach in the Sin presión hay diversión pilot project.
How do we support the country?
Strengthening the National Drug Observatory
Progress has been made in discussing an interinstitutional cooperation agreement for the establishment of the national network of researchers on the drug phenomenon and mental health.
Incorporation of the gender approach into a rapid drug-use survey among university students.
Drug demand reduction
- Development of the care Guide for Line 171 (option 6): Telephone counselling for people experiencing mental health crises due to problematic drug use and consumption.
- Training has been provided to counselling staff on telephone advice, crisis management and psychological first aid related to problematic substance use.
Control of chemical precursors
Support to the Ministry of Interior (MI) in developing and approving 1 base manual for the management and final disposal of chemical precursors. The manual has helped the MI’s Substance Administration Directorate improve its performance in the institutional policy of “reducing to zero” precursor warehouses.
Training of security force personnel in the use of the manual.
Contribution to defining the development of institutional software to analyse, monitor and control transactions involving substances subject to regulation.
Comprehensive and Sustainable Alternative Development (AD)
- Technical support for the design of the urban DAIS pilot project ‘Sin presión hay diversión’, aimed at preventing and reducing drug demand among adolescents and young people, with the participation of civil society.
- Inclusion of the gender approach in the Sin presión hay diversión pilot project.