{"id":"f0814193-ffd1-4e9c-8ba0-54554e9907c4","short_name":"sanpud","human_readable_name":"South African Network of People who Use Drugs","dataset_count":1,"created_date":"2025-12-01T11:39:00+00:00","data_portal_url":"","default_licence_id":"odc-pddl","description":"SANPUD was established in 2018 to represent the voices of people who use drugs locally, regionally and internationally. \nSANPUD sources funding and support globally and ensures that local networks of people who use drugs are resources and represented in all matters that impact on their lives.\nSANPUD supports and promotes the principle of “Nothing for us, without us.”\nSANPUD advocates for a response to the use of drugs that respects the rights of all people and meets the standrds and demands of the South African Constitution.\nSANPUD believes in and promotes the principle of equity, recognising that there must be an active effort to deconstruct the historical impact and the current reality of structural racism and exclusion.\nSANPUD is a member of the International Network of People Who Use Drugs.\nSANPUD is a registered non-profit organisation (NPO-213-268) \nSANPUD is a registered public penefit organistion (9592690185)\n\nVision:\nSANPUD envisions a world where:\n1.\tall people are able and empowered to make well-informed, conscious, autonomous decisions about their bodies, without being criminalised, stigmatised or excluded;\n2.\tA drug policy landscape that does not perpetuate the oppression, marginalisation and economic exclusion of people, including those who use drugs\n3.\tthe response to drug use, lifestyles or identity does not increase harm, restrict people’s access to education, economic opportunity, services and medications or restrict their autonomy. \nAim: \nA South Africa where drug policy aligns with our constitution. A country where people who use drugs are no longer criminalised, and enjoy the same rights guaranteed to all South Africans.\nObjectives: \n1.\tTo support and establish a legitimate, coordinated and collective voice for people who use drugs and ensure their participation in developing policies, legislation, and research. \n2.\tTo facilitate the establishment, capacitation of peer-led regional networks that advocate for the rights and appropriate responses to people who use drugs at community, metropolitan and provincial levels.\n3.\tTo contribute to dismantling the stigmatising and inaccurate narratives that dominate the discourse around drug use and the response to people who use drugs.\n4.\tTo advocate for harm reduction services, interventions and approaches for people who use drugs as the standard response in health and social services and across the criminal justice system for people who inject drugs.\n5.\tTo advocate for the rights of people who use drugs at the national, regional and international levels.\n6.\tTo establish partnerships, collaborations, and projects with business, civil society, and government to benefit people who use drugs.\n7.\tTo hold society and national and regional governments accountable for the preventable harms inflicted on people who use drugs due to current policies, legislative frameworks.\nActivities:\n1.\tWork with the existing networks to develop guidelines, principles and positions to inform the purpose, role and activities of local people who use drugs networks. \n2.\tStrengthen and expand existing relationships with National Government, the Central Drug Authority, academic institutions and national role-players.\n3.\tGain support for effective drug policies, harm reduction and the decriminalisation of people who use drugs.\n4.\tAdvocate for and ensure the involvement of people who use drugs in developing policies, laws, and interventions that impact people who use drugs. This aligns with the principle of “nothing about us, without us” \n5.\tIdentify and secure resources for the local networks and capacitate them to successfully apply for donor funds. \n6.\tDevelop and enter into memoranda of understanding and cooperation with appropriate and supportive organisations at a national level.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       \n7.\tSANPUD will hold organisations providing services for people who use drugs accountable. SANPUD will ensure people are treated with dignity, afforded their privileges and rights, and not misrepresented or excluded.\n8.\tEnsure that appropriate skills are transferred or developed to enable the networks to move towards independent operations, including administration, management, planning and research.\n9.\tDesign and conduct relevant, accurate, and valuable research to inform policy, strategies, and interventions.\n10.\tUse the research and advocacy agenda to focus efforts and provide structure for the processes and activities during the early development of the people who use drugs networks.\n","exclusions_policy_url":"","first_publication_date":"2021-12-06T15:40:00+00:00","hq_country":"ZA","organisation_identifier":"ZA-NPO-213-268","organisation_type":"22","region":"","reporting_source_type":"primary_source","website":"http://www.sanpud.org/"}