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Enhancing the quality of drugs abuse prevention projects in Croatia: linking the prevention evidence, practice and policy making

With the aim of getting insight into conducted prevention activities and enhancing their quality, in 2011 the Office for Combating Drug Abuse of the Government of the Republic of Croatia (OCDA) created the Database of Drug Abuse Prevention Projects. As a parallel activities, and with the support of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction and Technical Assistance and Information Exchange instrument of the European Commission, in 2011 and 2012, OCDA conducted regional workshops on drug abuse prevention projects and on minimum quality standards. Further efforts were focused on linking quality criteria with funding, and in 2013, the OCDA decided to finance only projects that fulfil minimum quality criteria. Since only few projects fulfilled these criteria, OCDA and the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences University of Zagreb conducted the project on enhancing the quality of the financed projects, in which the Croatian translation of the European Drug Prevention Quality Standards - Quick guide was used. As a result of these efforts, in 2014, the OCDA, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Social Policy and Youth for the first time organized a common call for tender, in which one of the priorities was the addiction prevention projects that fulfill EDDRA Level I criteria. In spite of the improvement that has been made in the last few years, the prevention projects in Croatia still need to be improved, so that dissemination of effective projects could be achieved.

quality ; drugs abuse ; prevention projects

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