Links and relevant documentation: Alternative Development

• Websites
• Governmental and Official Websites
• Documents
• NGO Documents
• Governmental and Official Documents
• Research Documents

Websites

Governmental and Official Websites

• International Conference on The Role of Alternative Development in Drug Control and Development Cooperation 7-12 January 2002 in Feldafing / Munich, Germany, convened by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) -through the Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)- and the UNDCP.
  A special conference website was set up with lots of interesting documents on the current status of alternative development.
  The Feldafing Declaration
  The NGO
  Perspective: Critical Assessment of Alternative Development, but Hopes for an Honest Debate interview with Martin Jelsma (TNI) at the International Conference on The Role of Alternative Development in Drug Control and Development Cooperation in Feldafing, January 2002. [PDF document]
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ): Drugs and Development Programme (ADE)
  The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) is a service enterprise for development cooperation with world-wide operations. Owned by the Federal Republic of Germany, the organisation operates as a private-sector enterprise with a development-policy mandate: to make sustainable improvements to the living conditions of people in partner countries, and to conserve the natural resource base on which life depends. GTZ is involved in alternative development projects to counter drug cultivation worldwide.
  Language: English and German.
• Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD): Alternative Development
  Special section on alternative development of the Comisión Interamericana para el Control del Abuso de Drogas (CICAD) of the Organisation of American States (OAS).
  Language: English.
• UNDCP: Alternative Development in the Andean Area - The UNDCP Experience
  The document is based on experience accumulated by the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) during alternative development activities in the Andean area since 1985. It relies on findings in the field and the subsequent processing of information provided by technical personnel who took part in the activities and projects, by government officials and by the beneficiaries interviewed. Full report [PDF document]
• UNDCP: Alternative Development Cooperation in East Asia
  A website developed by UNDCP for exchange of experiences in alternative development.
  Language: English

Documents

NGO Documents

• Open Letter to the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs ENCOD, March 11, 2002.
  Versión en español
• The Fight for Development by Joep Oomen, ENCOD, Drugs and Development No. 23, September 2000.
  En español: La Lucha por el desarrollo

Governmental and Official Documents

• UNODC Publications on Alternative Development
• Development-oriented Drug Control Policy, Strategy, Experience, Intersectoral Solutions, Eschborn, GTZ/BMZ 2004. [PDF Document]
• Alternative Development in drug control. The 'alternative development' concept – potentials, successes and limits, Christoph Berg, GTZ/ADE, 2002.
• Working together in the fight
  against drugs in Southeast Asia, (article out of: "Entwicklung und ländlicher Raum (02/2002)); Sanong Chinnanon, 2002. [PDF Document]
• 18 years of the Thai-German Highland Development Program - has it been a success story?, (article out of: "Entwicklung und ländlicher Raum (02/2002)); Hagen Dirksen, 2002. [PDF Document]
• Follow-up to the Action Plan on International Cooperation on the Eradication of Illicit Drug Crops and on Alternative Development, E/CN.7/2002/6, December 2001. [PDF Document]
  En español: Seguimiento del Plan de Acción sobre cooperación internacional para la erradicación de los cultivos ilícitos para la producción de drogas y desarrollo alternativo, E/CN.7/2002/6, diciembre 2001. [PDF Document]
• Drugs and Development in Latin America, Eschborn, GTZ/ADE, 2001. [PDF Document]
  En español: Drogas y Desarrollo en Latino America, Eschborn, GTZ/ADE, 2001. [PDF Document]
• Gender and Alternative Development? Experiences gained with participatory project work in the coca-cultivating areas of Peru, Eschborn, GTZ/ADE, 2001. [PDF Document]
  En español: Genero y Desarrollo Alternativo - Experiencias del trabajo participativo de proyectos en zonas cocaleras del Perú, Eschborn, GTZ/ADE, 2001. [PDF Document]
• Drugs and Development.
  Policies, strategies and experience in drug control within the framework of development cooperation, Eschborn, GTZ/ADE, 1998. [PDF Document]
  En español: Drogas y Desarollo. Política, estrategias y experiencias del control de la droga en la cooperación al desarollo, Eschborn, GTZ/ADE, 1998. [PDF Document]
• Action Plan on International Cooperation on the Eradication of Illicit Drug Crops and on Alternative Development, A/RES/S-20/4, UNGASS, New York, June 1998.
  En español: Plan de Acción sobre Cooperación Internacional en Erradicación de Cultivos Ilícitos y Desarrollo Alternativo, UNGASS, Nueva York, junio 1998.

CND Prep Documents

• International Cooperation on Eradication of Illicit Drug Crops and Promotion of Alternative Development Programmes and Projects Commision on Narcotic Drugs, Working Draft, Vienna, 5 December 1997.
• Eradication of Illicit Narcotic Crops and
  Promotion of Alternative Development Programmes Commision on Narcotic Drugs, Working Draft, Vienna, 5 December 1997.
• Eradication of Illicit Narcotic Crops and
  Promotion of Alternative Development Programmes A Global Plan for the Elimination of Illicit Narcotic Crops, Commision on Narcotic Drugs, Proposal by the UNDCP, Vienna, 5 December 1997.
• Eradication of Illicit Narcotic Crops and Promotion of Alternative Development Programmes Commision on Narcotic Drugs, Proposal by the European Union, Vienna, 5 December 1997.
• Proposal by Colombia Vienna, 5 December 1997.

Research Documents

• “Alternative Development” as an Important Strategy within Development Oriented Drug Control by Christoph Berg (Team Leader, Drugs and Development Fund GTZ, Germany), April 2003.
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  Economic Superiority of Illicit Drug Production: Myth and Reality by David Mansfield, paper for the International Conference on The Role of Alternative Development in Drug Control and Development Cooperation, Munich, January 2002.
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  The UNGASS Action Plan on Alternative Development by Doris Buddenberg, paper for the International Conference on The Role of Alternative Development in Drug Control and Development Cooperation, Munich, January 2002.
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  The Profitability of illicit Crops and Alternative Development in Latin America by Francisco Thoumi, paper for the International Conference on The Role of Alternative Development in Drug Control and Development Cooperation, Munich, January 2002.
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  The Political Framework for Alternative Development by Alexander Seger, paper for the International Conference on The Role of Alternative Development in Drug Control and Development Cooperation, Munich, January 2002.
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  Community Empowerment in Alternative Development: Mutually Exclusive Concepts? by Rita Gebert, paper for the International Conference on The Role of Alternative Development in Drug Control and Development Cooperation, Munich, January 2002.
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  Community Empowerment through Highland People Networks in Northern Thailand by Kanok Rerkasem, paper for the International Conference on The Role of Alternative Development in Drug Control and Development Cooperation, Munich, January 2002.
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  The Potential of Alternative Development in Conflict Management by Wolfgang S. Heinz, paper for the International Conference on The Role of Alternative Development in Drug Control and Development Cooperation, Munich, January 2002.
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  Alternative development: the modern thrust of supply-side policy by David Mansfield, Bulletin on Narcotics, Volume LI, Nos. 1 and 2, 1999.