Overview
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has been resident as a Project Office in Bulgaria since 1999. It started with a regional Joint UNDCP - Phare Programme for Strengthening Drug Law Enforcement Capacities in Southeastern Europe.
UNODC RPOSEE Officers undertake the delivery and facilitation of day-to-day project activities at a national and regional level, acting as an interface with the local beneficiary coordinators and ensuring local compliance with the agreed integrated Work Plans. This field-based approach ensures avoiding duplication with other national and region initiatives and assists to highlight gaps where projects could be identified for future development and funding.
The Office's key regional focus is the interdiction of Afghan opiates, in transit to the lucrative western markets. Recently an expanding project portfolio has been developed in a range of UNODC mandated areas including demand reduction, school based drug abuse prevention and HIV/AIDS.
From January 2005 its presence has been formally expanded to that of Regional Programme Office for South Eastern Europe (RPOSEE) maintaining a small nucleus of staff in Sofia and a network of subordinated National Project Offices in Ankara, Belgrade, Tirana, Bucharest, Bratislava and Chisinau.
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9 December - International Anti-corruption Day
Inter-Regional Conference on "Anti-Corruption Policies and Practices in South Eastern Europe" took place at Boyana Conference Center, Sofia, from 9:30 to 15:30h. The conference is dedicated to the International day against corruption, which for the last 5 years has been commemorated on 9th December in accordance with a Resolution of the United Nations' General Assembly.
The international forum is under the Patronage of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria. The UNODC RPOSEE is organizing the conference. Partners and co-organizers are the Regional Cooperation Council, the Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative, and the Bulgarian Center for the Study of Democracy.
Members of parliament, representatives of the government and NGOs, diplomatic bodies and representatives of international organizations took part in the conference. They outlined the regional picture of the problems and the way to resist to corruption. National practices and policies, effectively running institutional mechanisms, good practices and successful initiatives for fighting corruption were presented. Particular attention was focused on discussions on the regional cooperation. |
