Civil Society-led Monitoring of Harm Reduction in Europe

Monitoring and evaluating policy implementation by civil society organisations are crucial for ensuring government accountability. Such independent evaluations not only enhance current services and programmes for people who use drugs but also enrich knowledge and support advocacy and policy-making through insights from local service providers. This is a key goal of the C-EHRN monitoring efforts.

Since the Monitoring’s inception in 2018, C-EHRN has published annual reports, relying on its network of Focal Points (FPs) for data collection. This data is gathered directly from harm reduction service providers and indirectly from service clients at the grassroots level. The focus has been on city-level data since 2020.