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Understanding the Gendered Impacts of Drugs, Drug Policy and Drug Policy Enforcement WORKSHOP 11–13 September 2017 l Budapest, Hungary Participants’ Booklet THE WORKSHOP .................................................................... 2 Background .................................................................... 2 Outputs ........................................................................... 4 Participants’ profi le and contributions ................................ 5 SCHEDULE ............................................................................ 6 Workshop structure .......................................................... 6 Program .......................................................................... 6 Dinners ........................................................................... 12 LOGISTICAL INFORMATION ..................................................... 14 Arrival and accommodation ............................................... 14 Workshop venue ............................................................... 14 Meals .............................................................................. 16 Eating out ....................................................................... 16 of Contents Table Smoking .......................................................................... 17 Internet and WiFi ............................................................. 17 Social media ................................................................... 17 Weather in September ...................................................... 17 Personal safety and security .............................................. 18 Medical care .................................................................... 18 Workshop coordinators ...................................................... 19 Q&A on Central European University (CEU) in the news ....... 20 A Note on Hungary ........................................................... 22 Metro and suburban railway lines ....................................... 24 Useful Hungarian Phrases ................................................. 25 BIOGRAPHIES ........................................................................ 26 Lead ............................................................................... 26 Participants ..................................................................... 26 Facilitators ...................................................................... 41 Student assistants ............................................................ 42 SPP Global Policy Academy staff ....................................... 43 ORGANIZERS ......................................................................... 45 Open Society Foundations Global Drug Policy Program ........ 45 CEU School of Public Policy, Global Policy Academy ........... 45 1 BACKGROUND Despite modest progress in mainstreaming gender considerations in areas such as development and security policy, gender is chronically overlooked in drug policy design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. States are rarely held accountable by drug policy institutions or donors for their failure to respect international treaty obligations in relation to women and girls. The paucity of research and data on the diversity of women’s experience of the illegal drug economy and of The Workshop drug policy enforcement compounds the weakness of gender sensitive approaches and impedes the building of a gendered evidence base to advance future policy reform strategies and mitigate current policy impacts. Critical perspectives on drug policy rarely address current failings through a gendered or intersectional lens, and the ‘silo’ nature of the drug policy ‘issue’ has led to the neglect of bridge building opportunities with academic, policy and NGO communities working on gender issues 2 The Workshop (criminal justice, race, political economy). Similarly, the academic community rarely engages with drug policy as a case study of egregious gendered and human rights impacts. Even within the drug policy community, coordination and communication between those working on treatment and those working on criminal justice issues is often lacking. With this in mind, we bring together a diverse group of experts and practitioners for a three-day intensive workshop at Central European University’s School of Public Policy in Budapest between 11 and 13 September 2017. The workshop is a closed, invitation-only event that will aim to: • fertilize critiques of drug policy with conceptual, theoretical and practitioner learning from gender, development and security studies and rights based approaches; • discuss the ‘state of the art’ in terms of research, data and information on the role of women and girls in illegal drug economies; • analyze current research on the impacts of drug policy enforcement on women and girls in areas that include security, criminal justice, health, social services and recovery; and • identify the most salient gaps in research, and strategies to address them. 3 OUTPUTS First, an edited collection on the Gendered Impacts of Drug Policy. This publication will bring together academics, practitioners and activists. Edited collections are unfortunately neglected by many academic colleagues under pressure to produce monographs and peer-reviewed journal articles, while policy and activist colleagues have focused on accessible pamphlets, reports and brochures. We propose to maximize the best of both approaches and produce an accessible paperback with the possibility of extensive market reach and translation. In order to The Workshop accelerate this process and enable us to telescope iteration and writing up, we will be joined by a facilitator from Biggerplate (https://www. biggerplate.com) with whom the workshop organizer, Julia Buxton, recently enjoyed the most productive, time effi cient and intellectually coherent workshop of her professional career. Second, a policy document that will draw together the key fi ndings of the workshop and which will be intended for presentation and contribution to policy discussions at national, regional and international levels. Third, the workshop will produce a syllabus for teaching and advocacy on the gendered impacts of drug policy for use both in academic settings and short course learning environments. It is almost standard to suggest that further outputs will be sustainable 4 The Workshop networks and/or future conference proposals, so we take these as given but with a strong emphasis on discussing how we can make these happen. PARTICIPANTS’ PROFILE AND CONTRIBUTIONS This is a closed, invitation-only workshop. All participants were carefully chosen on the basis of their proven academic or professional contributions to the fi eld of gender and drug policy. With a view of supporting inter- regional and international experience sharing and collaboration, we intended to invite the experts from around the world. We aim to structure a fully collaborative environment, in which parti- cipants can be confi dent in sharing, challenging and elaborating core ideas and concepts. Due to excellent technology resources at CEU, we will bring some colleagues in remotely to maximize our geographic reach. 5 WORKSHOP STRUCTURE Each session will be led by discussants (approximately 15 minutes per discussant) in order to frame assessment through reference to current research and advocacy. We acknowledge that the session delineations set out below are somewhat arbitrary and that there are overlaps across Schedule all of the separate sessions. As such, we expect to move backwards and forwards across themes and issue areas and do not expect or encourage sessions to be seen in isolation. PROGRAM All invited workshop participants have a broad range of (geographical and thematic) skills, knowledge, expertise and engagement so we strongly encourage broad participation in each of the sessions in order to provide real depth and richness to our discussion and analysis of: a) what we know about gender, the illicit drug economy and counter narcotics impacts; b) how the gendered dimensions of risk and vulnerability are evidenced; and c) how we can share research, best practice, lessons learned and advance a policy reform agenda. The scheduling aims to maximize the engagement of all participants. We have divided sessions into morning and afternoon, each starting with a panel discussion followed by an opening out of the conversation after the coffee break. The panel discussions aim at amplifying the space for participants to share their professional experience and insights. Please note that the workshop will be opened to the public on Day 2, as we plan to invite students and the wider CEU community to a lecture entitled “Learning from the Latin American experience: policy and advocacy advancements for incarcerated female drug offenders.” 6 Day 1: Monday, 11 September 9.00–9.30am Housekeeping, participant introductions and overview of workshop aims Julia BUXTON l Graham HUGHES l Lucia SOBEKOVA 9.30–10.45am Schedule Framing the workshop What is a gender perspective and how has a gendered perspective been (or not been) incorporated into drug policy design, monitoring, evaluation, research and advocacy? LEAD DISCUSSANTS Julia BUXTON l Rebecca SCHLEIFER l Coletta YOUNGERS 11.00am–1.30pm Session 1 Understanding the gendered aspects of drug consumption. Women and girls as consumers: prevalence, drug types and administration; drivers of consumption; changes to demography and geography of drug use; gender specifi c drug use