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1 ANNUAL REPORTC overing activities during 2017 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThe 2017 ANNUAL REPORT has been developed by the Advocacy Section and the Strategic Planning and Interagency Affairs Unit situated with-in the Division for Policy Analysis and Public Affairs. It was prepared under the supervision of Jean-Luc Lemahieu, Director of the Division for Policy Analysis and Public Affairs, and the guidance of Gillian Murray, Deputy Director of the Division for Policy Analysis and Pub-lic Affairs and Chief of the Public Affairs and Policy Support Branch. The authors wish to thank colleagues from the Division for Opera-tions and its Field Offices, the Division for Treaty Affairs, the Division for Management and the Division for Policy Analysis and Public Af-fairs for their invaluable inputs and preparation of this ANNUAL REPORT benefitted from the financial contribution of the Government of Sweden.

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3 4 .. 6 .. 10 .. 14 .. 38 .. 52 .. 74 .. 86 .. 98 .. 106 .. 116 .. 124 Foreword by the Executive Director Strategic narrative ..Highlights ..Drugs, health and trafficking ..Transnational organized crime .. Justice ..Corruption ..Terrorism ..Policy support and public affairs .. Research and trend analysis .. Independent evaluation ..Partnerships and funding ..List of abbreviations .. 1344 unodc Executive Director Yury Fedotov at the 60th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs. Photo: UNIS 2017 we marked the twentieth anniversary of the United Nations Office on Drugs and two decades, unodc has been helping to make the world safer from drugs, organized crime, corrup-tion and terrorism. We have seen, and continue to see, threats emerging and evolving at an astonishing rate, from the proliferation of new psychoactive substances to cybercrime.

4 At the same time, the international community has increasingly recognized that to build sustainable peace, security and development, we must do more to counter human trafficking, migrant smuggling and corruption, as well as trafficking in drugs, wildlife, illicit firearms and cultural crimes threaten human life and safety, contrib-ute to environmental destruction and inequalities, and undermine the rule of has been clearly recognized by the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development 2017, the Security Council adopted resolutions urging Member States to prevent human trafficking in conflict situations, stop the looting and sale of cultural heritage to finance terrorism and keep weap-ons out of the hands of year, we signed the largest project in unodc s history to support Colombia in building peace through rural development and reducing illicit coca cultivation.

5 This ANNUAL REPORT provides an overview of the comprehensive support unodc provides to Member States to promote justice and the rule of law, address the challenges of drugs, crime, corruption and terror-ism, and work towards the SDGs. As these pages show, unodc is enabling international cooperation and building capacities through our headquarters in Vienna and our network of field offices, mainstreaming gender and human rights across our REPORT also makes clear the many constraints we face, not least a lack of reliable core funding, as we seek to fulfil our mandates, embrace reform and respond to change. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my unodc colleagues, particularly in the field, for their dedication and professionalism.

6 I am also grateful to our partners, donor and Member States, including our host country of Austria. The problems remain formi-dable but working together, I have no doubt that we are up to the challenge. Executive Director Yury FedotovFOREWORDUNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov addresses the high-level meeting of the General Assembly to appraise progress achieved in the implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons. Photo: UN Photo / Cia international civil servants, we are very often faced with the task of ex-plaining what terms like technical cooperation , normative assistance , capacity building , inter-institutional cooperation , and so on, really mean when it comes to concrete actions on the ground. This edition of the ANNUAL REPORT tries to address these questions by showcasing the human impact of work carried out by unodc in the areas of preventing and responding to crime, corruption, terrorism and promoting you will see going through the REPORT , we are expanding our part-nerships with Member States and other stakeholders in operationalizing the recommendations of the UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs, focussing on bolstering the health-related aspects while at the same time ensuring that the impact of the drug business on economies is tackled in a comprehensive manner.

7 7 The coming year will see unodc further stepping up its efforts in this area in the run-up to the 10-year review of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on Interna-tional Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem. Increasing the ability of the UN system along with States and oth-er stakeholders, to offer effective responses to the world drug problem will certainly be a priority for the Office. The work of our Office in Colombia on alternative de-velopment is an example of close cooperation with the Member State and other partners. It is an integral part of the implementation of the recent Peace Agreement be-tween the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia People s Army (FARC EP).

8 We are hopeful that the shift reflected in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, as well as the Secretary General s reform of UN country teams, will enable us to better help governments to link sustain-able development with inclusive organized crime and its impact have continued to attract the attention of Member States at the UN in New York, with more than a third of Security Council resolutions between 2000 and 2017 referencing or discussing organized crime in relation to conflict. Our long-standing work countering human trafficking, ensuring the safety and security of sea and air supply chains, as well as tackling the illicit trade in firearms, remains as topical as ever. The emergence of new types of crime requires us to be ever more innovative and flexible.

9 Our work combating cybercrime and illicit financial flows is important to assist with the financing for development. Strategic narrative8 Heads of State of Pacific islands at a side event of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption. Photo: corruption is at the core of unodc s mandate and has been recognized by Member States as an impediment to human development and access to public goods. It has, therefore, been prominently recognised as a cross-cutting feature of efforts to fulfil the 2030 Agenda. Looking ahead, we foresee a stronger emphasis on helping States address the link between corruption and countering terrorism, money laundering, drug trafficking, human trafficking, wildlife and environmental crime, and the human rights was also a year of consolidation and organi-zational learning for unodc .

10 In order to strengthen our performance in the areas of programme planning, monitoring, and reporting, we tasked a team of peer reviewers from other UN agencies to objectively as-sess our current results-based management approach as the basis for unodc s programmatic interventions. The results of the peer review will enable us to further improve our project delivery the first time, unodc has developed a gender equality strategy. The Strategy which covers the period from 2018-2021 aims to ensure that gender equality and the empowerment of women are integral parts of all aspects of the work of unodc in making the world safer from drugs, crime and terrorism. unodc sees the establishment of the rule of law and the promotion of justice, peace, security, and human rights as forming the unifying framework for effective and long-term wellbeing across the world.