This month, Richard Braam, an independent researcher, completed the evaluation report on our work, accomplished in 2020. It has not only given us even more ideas for our future plans but also a great reminder of our efforts from a most challenging year. Below are a few of the affirming, confrontational and thought-provoking quotes from the Report.

“As a homeless service network, we are very much looking forward to continuing the collaboration as we think that there is a big need for capacity training on HR and drug use related topics among our members, which are (mainly) homeless services.”

“It has been a difficult year, very hard. The situation caused by COVID has caught us unprepared, therefore the effort has been double. From our institution, we appreciate all the support received from CN, the effort in the construction of bridges of COVID and harm reductions knowledge. The fact of being able to share has not only given us new points of view, but has also been able to reinforce our work.”

“Coming from a small country and introducing a new concept such as harm reduction applied to all drugs is a bit challenging, but your reports and outreach helps a lot to further strengthen my arguments :)”.

“What I have seen of your statements, I always agree with the message and find them well formulated. However, Europe can feel very abstract/distant in our daily work.”

Read the Report here