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Brasília, 31 March 2022 - The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), started this week the Pilot Project to Monitor the Illicit Drug Market in Brazil. To present the project, an inter-institutional meeting was held on 28-29 March, at the Ministry of Justice and Public Safety (MJSP), in Brasília.
The initiative was carried out in the scope of the Centre of Excellence for Illicit Drug Supply Reduction (CdE), which is the result of an innovative partnership among the National Secretariat for Drugs Policies and Asset Management (SENAD/MJSP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The proposal of the CdE is to contribute with qualified information on the supply of drugs in the country through the sharing of scientific evidence on illicit markets.
On the occasion, the thematic bulletin "Illicit Drug Price Monitoring: Lessons learned in Colombia and possible challenges in Brazil", prepared in partnership with SIMCI, was launched. The aim of the bulletin is to introduce the issue from a technical perspective, through documented international experiences and, mainly, having as a reference the lessons learned in Colombia.
The opening session was attended by representatives of the SENAD/MJSP, UNDP and UNODC, which also included representatives of the Integrated Illicit Crops Monitoring System (SIMCI), a UNODC project in Colombia. Representatives from the states of Mato Grosso, Paraná, Pernambuco and São Paulo, where the pilot project will be implemented, also participated in the activities.
"This research aims, from data collection and analysis, local knowledge, together with the experience of over twenty years of the UNODC Office in Colombia, to provide subsidies for the expansion of the monitoring of the illicit drug market, based on the price indicator of these substances," said the UNODC representative, Elena Abbati.
About CdE
The CdE is the result of a partnership among the National Secretariat for Drug Policy and Asset Management of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security (SENAD/MJSP), UNODC and UNDP in Brazil, to contribute with qualified information on the supply of drugs in the country through the sharing of scientific evidence related to illicit markets.
About SIMCI
SIMCI is a UNODC technological project that, in addition to monitoring the cultivation of illicit drugs for two decades, promotes studies in related areas, having developed a methodology to estimate the price of illicit drugs in different regions of Colombia. Since 1999, through the use of satellites and field verification, the project has calculated the extent of the areas of illicit coca cultivation and the potential for cocaine hydrochloride production in the country, building historical series that support annual reports on the subject.
In addition, SIMCI promotes thematic studies on the cultivation of marijuana and poppies, on the chemical substances used in the production of drugs, and on the illicit extraction of minerals. The project's research model, with a geographic focus, is based on the construction of primary information, fieldwork and the design of indicators to obtain data.
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