Keep calm and bounce back: Determination, grit, growing from failure, the ability to bounce back from a difficult experience. This is resilience. The quality that enables someone to rise above adversity. In children, it is considered an especially important quality in order to develop into well-functioning adults. But organisations need resilience too. Organisational resilience becomes essential in uncertain economic and political times like those we face right now across the globe. This issue of the Informer is all about rising to the challenges and resilience.
NACOSA hosted the Amaqhawekazi Harm Reduction Summit 2026, from 26-27 August 2026, bringing together representatives of government departments, civil society organisations, community-led organisations, development partners, researchers, advocates, people who use
South Africa’s current drug policy framework is fragmented, with contradictions between legislation that criminalises personal drug use and policy commitments that recognise prevention, treatment, harm reductionand social reintegration as essential
A policy brief examining the legal and policy framework relating to under 18s who use drugs, including injecting drug use.
Policy brief on the community household health and social care assessment conducted by NACOSA and commissioned by the Western Cape Government.
