Summary
This is one of four toolkit,s developed as part of a follow-up project to the European drug prevention quality standards.
The European Drug Prevention Quality Standards Toolkit 1 is aimed at decision-makers (including policy-makers, policy-managers, policy-officers, commissioners and funders) working in the field of drug prevention or health promotion at national, regional, county or local administrative levels.
Toolkit 1 is of particular value if you wish to:
- Consider key issues for supporting quality in drug prevention from the decision-maker’s perspective
- Assess whether initiatives proposed for funding or other forms of support are likely to be of high quality
- Review already funded initiatives or programmes with a view to assuring their quality
The Toolkit is structured in four sections:
- An Overview
- Policy Guide – Part 1: Challenges in selecting high quality prevention initiatives
- Policy Guide – Part 2: Key issues for promoting high quality in drug prevention
- An Assessment Quality Criteria Checklist
Some of the key messages within the Policy Guide include:
- Ineffective programmes and approaches should not be funded, even if they are considered popular
- It is better to finance a smaller number of high quality programmes with a realistic budget rather than a large number of vaguely elaborated programmes which may have a low budget but also no or unwanted effects
- It is important to have transparent selection and funding mechanisms that encourage quality, including needs assessment and evaluation
The Assessment Quality Criteria Checklist is an aid to help decision-makers review and select drug prevention activities in a systematic way. It can be used in everyday practice to help assess project proposals in the funding decision-making process, as well as during the follow-up of the implementation of already supported activities. Toolkit users are encouraged to adapt this tool to meet local requirements.
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Additional information
Below you can find links to the main resources which form part of the European drug prevention quality standards (EDPQS).
- EU/Europe
- English