Objective 1. - Support and guide public health policies that reduce the harmful use of alcohol and drugs.
Objective 2. - Define a set of relevant options and interventions covering the general population, vulnerable groups, individuals and specific problems, including a set of proposed measures for their implementation.
Objective 3. - To define the roles of the various stakeholders and mobilise them for appropriate and concerted action to reduce the harmful use of alcohol and drugs.
Objective 4. - To broaden and deepen the basic knowledge and ensure an effective and relevant dissemination of this information.
PRESIDENTIAL INITIATIVE
Informing to act, mobilizing to prevent is the slogan with which the Presidency of the Republic commemorates three years of intensive work with the World Health Organization (WHO), government partners and civil society in the fight against the abuse of alcoholic beverages in Cape Verde.
General Objective
The campaign to significantly reduce alcohol consumption in Cape Verdean society has achieved significant social mobilization, including the country's main universities, schools through the Ministry of Education, local councils, churches, political parties and more than 50 associations and civil society organisations spread throughout the country.
Specific Objectives
- To mobilize and bring together agents of intervention in this area for articulated and strategic actions to prevent the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholism within the framework of the campaign.
- Draw attention to the problem of alcohol abuse and alcoholism in Cape Verde and influence the taking of actions for its prevention and debellation.
- Develop communication and reflection structures on the problem.