Illicit Drug use in the Asia Pacific Region - Burnet Institute

Situational analysis of illicit drug issues and responses in the Asia–Pacific region
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Project title Donor Implementing agency Duration Project focus Start/end year Budget $US Geographical areas
‘BLESS: Building AusAID Governance and
Dec 2003 – $701,387 Solomon Islands
Livelihoods,
Empowerment and
Strategic Sustainability’
— Young people
community cohesion Dec 2006
Two liaison officers
in Port Vila
AFP Vanuatu
Illicit drug
forensic assistance
to Vanuatu Police
Force (upon request)
AFP Vanuatu
Vanuatu Police Force AusAID Law enforcement Feb 2002 – $4,600,587 Vanuatu
Capacity Building
Project
Feb 2004
Establishment of AFP Improve intelligence sharing
Fiji, Samoa, Tonga,
the Transnational
and investigation capacity
Vanuatu
Crime Units
in region
2 .14 .8 International involvement
Project title Donor Implementing agency Duration Project focus Start/end year Budget $US Geographical areas
UNICEF programs: an
Expanded Program
of Immunisation;
Prevention of Motherto-Child
Transmission of
HIV; and Pacific Youth
Health and Development
STI/HIV and
Development Program
Masculinity, Mental
Health and Violence
(MMHV)
Student Teaching
initiative
NZAID UNICEF 3 years Life skills 2005–2007 $730,000 14 Pacific Island
countries
NZAID UNDP Suva working
with UN regional
programs in Fiji
and Samoa
NZAID Foundation of the
Peoples of the South
Pacific (FSPI)
NZAID Wan Smolbag,
Vanuatu
Over three
financial
years
Ending
2006–2007
Ends in
2005–2006
$439,518
$861,756 Kiribati, Vanuatu,
Fiji and Papua New
Guinea, through FSPI
affiliate NGOs
$607,729 Solomon Islands and Fiji
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Country summaries: the Pacific