St. George’s Grenada, Tuesday November 1, 2011, MOEPRU – Grenada has been chosen to provide technical assistance to the National Council on Substance Abuse (NCSA), Barbados, on the establishment of the Barbados Drug Information Network BARDIN.
This, coming
out of a recent training workshop conducted by the Inter-American Drug Abuse
Control Commission (OAS/CICAD), for BARDIN Stakeholders, at which Drug Control
Officer Dave Alexander was a co-facilitator.
Alexander was
invited by CICAD to co-facilitate the workshop, based on his experiences in the
establishment of the Grenada Drug Information Network (GRENDIN), in 2002. GRENDIN is being used by CICAD as a model for
establishment of similar Networks in the Caribbean.
Officials from
Government Institutions and NGO's involved in drug control initiatives, such as
the Judiciary, Law Enforcement, Health, Education and Community Development in
Barbados participated in the workshop. Two Officials from Trinidad and Tobago,
and one from St. George’s University, also attended.
Mr. Francis
Mc. Barnette, OAS Representative, Barbados, delivered remarks at the
commencement of the workshop and in his remarks, complimented Grenada as having
the best organized and most efficient drug information network in the Caribbean
as well as its successful participation in the Multilateral Evaluation
mechanism (MEM).
In his
presentation, Alexander shared the ‘Grenada Experience’ regarding the establishment
of the Grenada Drug Information Network (GRENDIN), its successes and challenges. He also provided examples of information
generated from Information Networks.
Alexander
also assisted the four working groups established to formulate plans for the
establishment of BARDIN, which focused on organization of participants by
sector (Law enforcement, Prevention, Treatment, and Research), review of
indicators by sector, development or review of data forms, development of a
data collection and reporting plan and reports, publications and other outputs.
As a follow-up
Alexander will now provide technical assistance toward the establishment of
BARDIN.
SOURCE: Wendy Chasteau, Ministry of Education
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