National Drug Control System Operational Arrangements Maher Abu Ghali Global Systems Manager Information Technology Services United Nations Office at Vienna United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime NDS Version 5.1 – 10 March 2003

United Nations Office on Drugs and CrimeMandates  1994 – INCB resolution  Facilitate electronic reporting of statistics NDS 1,2,3 & 3.3e  1999 – GA resolution  Development Account – NDS 4.0 national and international drug control modules  2001 – 2002 – CND resolutions  CN.7/2001/L13, CN.7/2002/L18 – NDS 5.0 enhanced modules

United Nations Office on Drugs and CrimeObjectives  Assist national administrations in automating drug control  Import/Export Authorizations  Pre-export notifications (precursor chemicals)  Licensing  Domestic distribution monitoring  Assist national administrations in compliance with the requirements of the drug control conventions  Tracking estimates and assessments  Tracking licensed quotas to establishments  Preparation and submission of statistical return data to INCB  Facilitate electronic communication on national, regional and international levels

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime NDS Tasks  Develop a system that meets the objectives  Gather, verify and implement changing requirements from competent authorities and update the system accordingly.  Deploy the system and provide training in its use  Support competent authorities using the system and provide service releases  Maintain the standards that the system is based on such as EDI, HS and CAS

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime NDS Team  1994 – 1998 – No staff members working full time on the system  1999 – 2001 – 1.5 Staff members full time working on the system  2001 – 2002 – 2 Staff members  2003 – 3 staff members  We have a high degree of reliance on contractual services

United Nations Office on Drugs and CrimeAchievements  NDS is accepted as a standard system for automating drug control  Endorsed by individual evaluation reports done by several competent authorities  Endorsed by regional organizations like OAS  Endorsed by CND  Endorsed by independent 3 rd party evaluation  Fully meets all user requirements and mandates assigned up to date  The system has been installed in 38 countries in more than 70 locations  NDS adapts to the needs of countries that have few hundred transactions per year up to countries that have millions of transactions per year.  The system fully meets the requirements of domestic and international dug control.

United Nations Office on Drugs and CrimeChallenges  Huge task (a global system) in contrast with little resources  Consistency of funding level  Changing requirements  Lack or inadequacy of national IT support at some competent authorities  High turn over of personnel at some competent authorities

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Lessons Learned  Allocate more human resources to the task – NDS team size is increasing  Transfer IT know how to competent authorities  Discuss funding arrangements with donors and recipients  Establishing a schema to prioritize response to requests received from competent authorities

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime The Plan Forward  Concentrate on increasing the number of countries in production with limited number of new installations  Continue maintaining the system according to user requirements  Propose advanced technologies to streamline the processes

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