Expertos en Tailandia debaten un enfoque de desarrollo alternativo con miras a la UNGASS sobre drogas en 2016

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Expertos en Tailandia debaten un enfoque de desarrollo alternativo con miras a la UNGASS sobre drogas en 2016

30 noviembre 2015

El segundo taller de ICAD tuvo lugar en Tailandia y los participantes pudieron visitar varios lugares donde se despliegan proyectos de desarrollo alternativo al cultivo de adormidera en Myanmar y Tailandia. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

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In preparation for next year's Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS 2016), more than 150 policy makers, experts, practitioners, members of international organizations and civil society from 27 countries gathered this week to exchange ideas and lessons learned, and to consider alternative development in the context of the global development agenda. The second International Workshop and Conference on Alternative Development (ICAD2) was hosted by the Government of Thailand, in collaboration with the Government of Germany and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

Last week, participants visited alternative development project sites in Myanmar and Thailand, where rural communities previously grew opium poppy to meet their basic needs. Both Governments made a long-term commitment to support these areas with alternative development interventions to gain viable, legal income alternatives and help them to improve their livelihoods. Community representatives from several generations of alternative development beneficiaries in Thailand shared their personal stories of the change they experienced over the years. The older generation recalled times of conflict and lawlessness, lack of opportunities, dependency on opium poppy cultivation, heavy drug use and engagement in other illicit activities. The younger generation described how decisions by their grandparents and parents contributed to the improved socio-economic situation they enjoy today.

Alternative development is a critical component of a comprehensive drug control strategy. It is a combination of development intervention and law enforcement that sustainably reduces illicit crop cultivation. When farmers engage in illicit crop cultivation or drug trafficking, they typically do so because of poverty and the necessity to meet basic needs. It is the absence of legal and sustainable income opportunities that forces them to engage in cultivation of illegal drugs.

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