Drug policy advocacy in Asia: Challenges, opportunities and prospects

This report was commissioned by the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC), with the support of Australian Aid, for the purpose of developing a better understanding of drug policy advocacy activity in 10 Asian countries: Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. It aims to achieve three goals:

Identify organisations engaged in harm reduction and drug policy advocacy

Identify gaps and challenges in harm reduction and drug policy advocacy that remain to be addressed

Develop recommendations for prioritising new activities in harm reduction and drug policy advocacy.

The report does not provide an exhaustive review of drug policy content, rather it focuses on the process of drug policy making and attempts to understand the relationships between key stakeholders, including both policy makers and policy advocates, engaged in policy processes at local and regional level.

The report combines data collected from published reports with key informant interviews to draw its conclusions.

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