Speakers
Description
Authors: Ali Yassine (Associate Drug Control and Crime Prevention Officer), Wadih Maalouf (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) Wadih Maalouf (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime)
Background: The UNODC CHAMPS initiative, is availed in response to UN Member States political commitment through a resolution prioritizing prevention response at early ages of development and most recently (2025) a resolution calling intensifying multisectoral systems of prevention targeting children and adolescents.
CHAMPS aims to demonstrate the value of changing the culture of prevention, aligning it with science and adopting a systemic approach to drug prevention. As of 2025, CHAMPS is launched in 10 model countries. These countries would select specific geographical areas (municipalities, states or city districts) where such pilot systems will be established.
Methods: Within the first year course of implementation, the focus will be on mapping out and assessment of services, policies and legislations through the UNODC Review of Prevention Services (RePS) tool per the Prevention Standards. This would prepare for five years of monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of such established system modality. The protocol of monitoring and evaluation will be set at baseline in collaboration between UNODC and a national inter-agency steering committee.
Results: The protocol will monitor the systems impact on developmental aspects of children, at each stage of child development and across diverse contexts and settings (family, school, community). It aims to document the amplification of the protection effect of such multi-sectoral system on multiple domains affecting child development (including drug use, violence, mental health, education and more). It will also monitor and document the evolution of the quality and coverage of prevention policies (at the environmental, family-, school- community- level).
Discussion: This abstract would present on the systems as planned in the diverse pilot zones as well as the established protocols for monitoring and evaluation. The aim of the process is to advance and mainstream this systemic approach nationally (for upscale) and globally (for other countries to follow suit).
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