Guyana
We support Guyana in the implementation of its Master Plan of the 2016–2020 National Drug Strategy.
This assistance has focused on the fight against drug trafficking and organised crime and, in particular, on strengthening capacities for the exchange of financial and asset information linked to money laundering offences.
How do we support the country?
Comprehensive and Sustainable Alternative Development (AD)
Technical support to the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) in designing a AD-DAIS pilot project with an agro-sustainable approach to reduce illicit cannabis crops.
Drug demand reduction
- 1 social innovation laboratory aimed at prevention and harm reduction to improve the response to drug use and prevention in minors under the care of the State.
- 2 study visits to learn about models of care for problematic drug use in community treatment facilities in Uruguay and Colombia. The visits have served to design a pilot project in Valparaíso aimed at creating a community work department in the territory that can be articulated with existing prevention and treatment programmes.
Fight against drug trafficking and organised crime
Through the Implementing Agency for Crime and Security (CARICOM IMPACS), Guyana strengthened its capacities in asset prevention in the fight against drug trafficking, and in synthetic drugs and new psychoactive substances (NPS).
Through the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF), the country trained analysts and technical staff of the National Police and the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) on new money laundering risks arising from the use of virtual assets.
How do we support the country?
Comprehensive and Sustainable Alternative Development (AD)
Technical support to the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) in designing a AD-DAIS pilot project with an agro-sustainable approach to reduce illicit cannabis crops.
Fight against drug trafficking and organised crime
Through the Implementing Agency for Crime and Security (CARICOM IMPACS), Guyana strengthened its capacities in asset prevention in the fight against drug trafficking, and in synthetic drugs and new psychoactive substances (NPS).
Through the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF), the country trained analysts and technical staff of the National Police and the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) on new money laundering risks arising from the use of virtual assets.
Fight against drug trafficking and organised crime
- 1 study to improve the registration of final beneficiaries of money laundering, which are being hidden through legal or financial structures to give the appearance of legitimacy to these assets.
- Updating the Financial Investigations Guide, including the systematisation of good practices for information exchange, since in many cases the financial networks of drug trafficking are not limited to one country.