The "Democracy, Cities and Drugs" projects is the alliance of a network of 300 European cities with organisations issued from European networks of the civil society.

Cities & Drugs project II (2008-2011) has as objective to support EU cities to develop local, partnership- based drug policies. The ultimate goal is to develop a coordinated, participative, targeted, and thus resource-effective approach towards drug-related problems.

Project: www.democitydrug.org

Guidelines (by Anne Coppel): : http://www.democitydrug.org/index.php?page=guidelines-3

This alliance aims to promote local and integrated responses to the drug phenomenon. Based on the comparison between the experiments undertaken by a pilot network of cities and NGOs, the project intends to support the creation of local partnerships and to set up a sustainable network of exchange of know-how.

Based on the lessons learned from the 1st Democracy, Cities & Drugs project (2005-2007), the DC&D II project 2008-2011 has as objective to support EU cities to develop local, partnership- based drug policies, involving relevant stakeholders (local authorities, health services criminal justice services, communities, including visible minority ones, and drug service users). The ultimate goal is to develop a coordinated, participative, targeted, and thus resource-effective approach towards drug-related problems.