Consultation on a new draft Annual Report Questionnaire and priorities for capacity building
28-30 August 2019
Background
In preparation of the second Expert Working Group on improving drug statistics and strengthening the Annual Report Questionnaire, UNODC has launched a global consultation on two draft documents that will serve as the basis for the discussion at the meeting:
a) draft priority activities for capacity building to improve drug statistics
b) draft of the new ARQ
Feedback provided through the consultation will be presented to the national experts attending the meeting.
How to submit feedback
Feedback can be submitted to UNODC using a standard template.
Once completed, please send the template via e-mail to unodc-arq@un.org.
Only feedback received by the 18 August 2019 will be presented at the Expert Working Group.
Drafts of the documents for feedback
The draft of the document presenting a list of priority activities for capacity building can be accessed here.
The draft of the new ARQ consists of annual modules, which will be collected every year, and rotating modules, which will be collected at a lower periodicity. Information on how the modules have been structured can be found here.
Each module can be accessed as follows:
Annual modules
- A01: Prevalence and extent of drug use
- A02: People who inject drugs (PWID)
- A03: People with drug use disorders
- A04: Drug related mortality
- A05: Drug-related Treatment
- A06: Seizures and trafficking
- A07: Clandestine laboratories
- A08: Cultivation and eradication of illicit crops
- A09: Price and purity of drugs
- A10: Drug related criminal justice process
- A11: Legislative and institutional framework
Rotating modules
- R01: Prisons
- R02: Drugrelated acute intoxication
- R03: Core treatment services
- R04: Registered drug users
- R05: Prevention of drug use
- R06: Prevention of infectious diseases
- R07: Sales of drugs using the internet and related technologies
- R08: Links between drug trafficking, corruption and other forms of organized crimes
- R09: Supply reduction activities and international cooperation
- R10: Alternative development
- R11: Alternatives to conviction or punishment
- R12: New psychoactive substances identified
- R13: Illicit Financial flows and money laundering
- R14: National framework
- R15: Innovative methods for data collection
- R16: Access to medications
Additional files
Lists of drugs types to be used for supply and demand related matters:
Documents for reference
The current skeleton of the ARQ has been developed based on the recommendations of the first Expert Working Group which took into consideration the 2016 UNGASS document as well as the 2009 Plan of Action.
In addition, a number of documents were consulted to ensure the classifications used in the ARQ are in line with international standards and tools. These documents are:
- Political declaration on HIV/AIDS by the General Assembly
- European drug prevention quality standards
- Policy brief on HIV prevention, treatment and care in prisons
- International classification of crime for statistical purposes (ICCS)
- UNODC-WHO International standards for the treatment of drug use disorders
- OHCHR Report on the implementation of the joint commitment to effectively addressing and countering the world drug problem with regard to human rights
- UNAIDS terminology guidelines
- UNODC-WHO International standards on drug use prevention
- WHO-UNODC-UNAIDs Technical guide for countries to set targets for universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care for injecting drug users
- WHO-UNODC Substance use disorder treatment facility survey
Other related documents can also be found here: