1. National Drug Control System
Towards a Sustainable NDS
Phillip D. Kruss
Chief, Information Technology Services
United Nations Office at Vienna
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

2. NDS – The Beginning Initial funding – Swiss, 1996 (US$340,000)
NDS 1, 2, 3, 3.3e
Tested but not accepted as focus of system was reporting to INCB only
Lesson learned – system must be useful to both Governments and INCB

3. NDS – The Early Years UN Development Account Funds Injection, 1999
Project manager
NDS 4.0
National, international & reporting capabilities
Focused on needs of developing countries
Tested and accepted!
First version successfully deployed and fully operational

4. 4th Users Group Meeting (2001)
First very positive meeting (due to NDS 4.0)
Very active meeting
Many new enhancements requested (by both developing and developed countries)
Introduced many new users (one reason for meeting was advertising NDS)
Fifty countries attending, all developing countries participation funded by UNODC

5. 5th Users Group Meeting (2003)
Smaller, more focused meeting
No longer need to advertise (too many requests as it is!)
New UNODC focus on bringing a limited number of countries quickly to operational status
The key issues
Sustainability
Enhancement
Your issues

6. NDS - Now The user community continues to grow
The software continues to improve
Version for developed and developing countries (NDS 5.0) finalised & tested (2002)
Initial deployments NDS 5.0 ( )
NDS 5.1 developed, ready for testing (March, 2003)

7. NDS – The Question
SUSTAINABILITY

8. UNODC’s Commitment System manager on stable long-term funding
Expand NDS team as needed
<2001 One staff
2001 Two staff
Today Three staff
End 2003 Four staff

9. UNODC’s Commitment Efficient & effective ongoing support
Continue support to current users
Priority criteria now in place to ensure support focused on pro-active countries where need is greatest
Support only those countries with
Need for NDS
Capability to maintain NDS

10. UNODC’s Commitment Continue enhancing NDS (NDS 6.0) Primary focus:
Developing and developed countries needs remain in one system
Enhancement as per YOUR requests
Primary focus:
Bring current users to full operational status
New deployments according to need and sustainability criteria

11. Proposed Sustainable Funding Strategy
Staff
All staff on UNODC Regular Budget (long-term) posts
Requires resolution from Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) and therefore your Government’s support at CND
Software, hardware, deployment, support, enhancement
Thus far all provided free of charge (except mission costs for developed countries)
Two funding proposals outlined in the following

12. Proposed Sustainable Funding Strategy
USER CONTRIBUTION, ALTERNATIVE 1
Software license fee
Developing Countries – Free
Developed Countries – Free
Hardware
Developing Countries – One system Free
Developed Countries – At own cost

13. Proposed Sustainable Funding Strategy
USER CONTRIBUTION, ALTERNATIVE 1
Deployment
Developing Countries – Free
Developed Countries – Travel and Per Diem
Support
Developing Countries – Free (remote & onsite)
Developed Countries – Remote free,
onsite travel & per diem
Enhancement
Developed Countries – Annual upgrade fee
(US$20,000 per year)

14. Proposed Sustainable Funding Strategy
USER CONTRIBUTION, ALTERNATIVE 2
Licence Fee, Deployment, Support, Enhancement
Developing Countries – Free
Developed Countries – Annual service fee
(US$30,000 per year)
Hardware
Developing Countries – One system Free
Developed Countries – At own cost

15. NDS – The Future UNODC is committed to NDS
To continue to be useful, NDS must be continually enhanced
Enhancement has been funded to date out of UN funds intended for support to developing countries
Proposed annual service fee

16. Thank You