Grants and Contributions:

ALERT UNODC Mexico — Access to Labs, Enforcement, Response and Trace

7466516 P014875003 P014875001

$4,154,027.76

Mar 7, 2025 - Jan 31, 2029

This project aims to strengthen the capacity of Mexican authorities to control and monitor illicit substances, to detect and dismantle clandestine laboratories, and to better analyze, manage, and dispose of synthetic drugs and chemical precursors. Through such efforts, this project will help counter the production and flow of illicit substances, with a particular focus on synthetic drugs, to and through Mexico with the ultimate objective of enhancing regional safety and security. To be implemented by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), this project will leverage relevant subject matter expertise to deliver training, equipment, and technical support to enhance Mexico’s capacity to counter the production and trafficking of synthetic drugs and increase relevant information sharing across the wider region. Project activities will include: (1) Delivery of on-site training on safe handling, disposal, and analysis of synthetic drugs and precursor chemicals; (2) Facilitate and convene discussions with key authorities involved in dismantling synthetic drug laboratories and handling chemical precursors; and (3) Development of a curricula meant for sharing lessons learned and best practices based on current collaborative work and gender responsive mechanisms.

Global Affairs Canada

Ultimate outcome:

• Increased health and security of populations affected by the production and trafficking of illicit synthetic drugs and their precursors in Mexico.

Intermediate outcomes:

• Enhanced quality of criminal evidence from the dismantling of clandestine laboratories by authorities in charge in Mexico to support prosecution of synthetic drugs cases.
• Enhanced technical skills and expertise in the handling, monitoring, disposal, analysis of synthetic drugs and precursor chemicals using a gender-based approach by operational staff and authorities in Mexico.
• Increased collaboration and communication by Mexican, Canadian, and US authorities on safe handling of synthetic drugs and precursor chemicals with a gender-responsive approach.

Immediate outcomes:

• Increased knowledge on the risks and impacts associated with the management of synthetic drugs and chemical precursors for Mexican authorities with a gender responsive approach.
• Increased knowledge for Mexican authorities to develop and implement technical and legal instruments.
• Increased knowledge of operational staff, with a focus on women, to address the safe handling, disposal, analysis of synthetic drugs and precursor chemicals.
• Enhanced access to technical tools for operational staff in Mexico.
• Improved knowledge among key Mexican, Canadian and US authorities to work on collaborative agreements and instruments with a gender responsive approach.
• Increased ability of Mexican authorities to identify and communicate synthetic drugs and precursor chemicals threats to Canada and the US.

Vienna, AT

064-2024-2025-Q4-00007

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Oct 10, 2025

UNODC - United Nations Office On Drugs And Crime

Contrib Anti-Crime Capacity Building Pro

The objective of the Anti-Crime Capacity Building Program (ACCBP) is to enhance the capacity of key beneficiary States and government entities to prevent and respond to threats posed by international criminal activity by providing transfer payment assistance in a manner consistent with international anti-crime and human rights obligations, norms and standards. In doing so, the ACCBP contributes to improving Canada’s national security, and the security of Canadians abroad, by addressing global transnational security threats, with a focus on the Americas. The Program also builds on previous crime program commitments that support regional and multilateral initiatives that focus on global crime issues.

The ACCBP will use both grants and contributions as the transfer payment mechanisms to meet its program objectives. The type of transfer payment will be determined by project and on a case-by-case basis, taking into consideration the Government of Canada’s international security mandate and objectives; the capacity of the implementing partners involved; and the assessment of the associated risks of the project. Such payments will be managed within the effective financial and program controls designed and implemented by Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada for its transfer payment programs.