The Women’ s Organisations Committee on Alcohol and Drug Issues -WOCAD, is a Swedish network of women’s organisations that fights alcohol and other drug addictions following a gender perspective. Their target groups consist of girls and women of all ages.
WOCAD is engaged in different activities such as producing and developing educational contents to strengthen young women’s self esteem -thus preventing them from engaging in addictive behaviours-, and follows the advances regarding care opportunities for girls / women with substance abuse problems, among others.
WOCAD has several collaborators within the EU and around the world, such as the European Women’s Lobby -EWL, the International Council on Alcohol and Addictions -ICAA, The Nordic Alcohol and Drug Co-operation -NordAN, the European Action on Drugs -EAD, or the World Federation Against Drugs -WFAD.
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This platform is part of the Axis 1 "Strengthening the capacities of equality actors" of the Priority Solidarity Fund "Women for the future in the Mediterranean" funded by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and led by the European Institute of the Mediterranean, in the framework of the project “Developing Women's Empowerment” labelled by the Union for the Mediterranean.
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