1. DEMOCRACY, CITIES AND DRUGS II Project French National Platform

2. Toolkit of pilot cities that aims at promoting a public policy relative to addiction issues in the framework of Local Safety and Crime Prevention Councils

3. Project’s frame : Democracy, cities and drugs II Project’s partners : French cities

4. Experts’ Commitee Docteur William Lowenstein, Hélène Martineau, OFDT – French Observatory for Drugs and Addictions

5. Project’s objectives Mobilise the French pilot cities to organise, draft and implement policies against addictive behaviours within their local safety and prevention devices ; Encourage, favour and support French local elected officials to hold a key role in coordinating and federating local stakeholders ; Encourage the drafting of a local policy based on four pillars: prevention, treatment, harm reduction and repression.

6. Any policy regarding drug use and other addictions is based on four indissociable pillars : Prevention Care Harm reduction Repression

7. Definitions Prevention : a range of strategies aiming at preventing the development of behaviours considered as risky and especially the ones of abusive drug consumption ; Care : concernes the access to care and treatment ; Harm reduction : policy that privileges first of all the strategies of treatment and prevention that aim at minimizing sanitary and social risks ; Repression : enforces social interdictions with the help of faster and more credible sanctions, fight against drug trafficking.

8. Functional objectives Encourage the drafting and development of a local policy ; Create a common framework and discourse ; Organise the coordination of actions ; Create a network of local professionals ; Promote a local technical unit for addiction issues.

9. Framework Local Safety and Crime Prevention Councils

10. Target groups Local elected officials and technical staff in charge of prevention and safety issues

11. Methodology Establish a group of ‘pilot cities’ ; Take into account the European working groups of DCDII so as to organise an exchange of practices and knowledge ; Organise an audit in pilot cities.

12. Methodology Creation of a common language about addiction issues; Focus on community’s needs: training, partners network, inhabitants’ associations Focus on the local technical unit and its methodological tools Development of a network of communities concerned about the subject.

13. Requirements for participating in the project Free participation of the cities thanks to the DCDII European programme, cofunded by the European Commission ; Pilot cities should sign a commitment letter towards the FFUS that guarantees the participation of a city representative to each of the actions until the final seminar on May 2011.

14. Timetable  May 2009 : Kick-off meeting ;  July 2009 : Planning Meeting ;  November 18 and 19, 2009 : Training session ;  April 2010 : Study visit ;  From August 2010 until September 2011 : Validation of the French Platform works ;  January 2011 : Validation meeting ;  May 2011 : Final seminar.