National Drug Control System

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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

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NDS The Beginning

• Initial funding Swiss, 1996 (US340,000)
• 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

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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

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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

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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

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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 (2002 - 2003)
• NDS 5.1 developed, ready for testing (March, 2003)

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NDS The Question

• SUSTAINABILITY

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UNODCs Commitment

• System manager on stable long-term funding
• Expand NDS team as needed
• lt2001 One staff
• 2001 Two staff
• Today Three staff
• End 2003 Four staff

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UNODCs 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

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UNODCs Commitment

• Continue enhancing NDS (NDS 6.0)
• 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

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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 Governments
  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

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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

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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
• Developing Countries Free
• Developed Countries Annual upgrade fee
• (US20,000 per year)

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Proposed Sustainable Funding Strategy

• USER CONTRIBUTION, ALTERNATIVE 2
• Licence Fee, Deployment, Support, Enhancement
• Developing Countries Free
• Developed Countries Annual service fee
• (US30,000 per year)
• Hardware
• Developing Countries One system Free
• Developed Countries At own cost

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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

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Thank You