COPOLAD is a cooperation programme funded by the European Commission Directorate General for International Associations (INTPA). This is the body responsible for formulating the EU’s international association and development policy, with the ultimate goal of reducing poverty, ensuring sustainable development and promoting democracy, human rights and the rule of law throughout the world.

Latin American and Caribbean countries and their institutions will be the protagonists of COPOLAD III, as the programme responds to their priorities and strategies to improve their public policies.

The programme is led by FIIAPP, a public foundation in Spanish Cooperation  in consortium with the Italo-Latin American Association (IILA). In addition, the programme has the technical collaboration of two important colaborating partners: the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) and Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

COPOLAD III will also have the collaboration of the institutions of the Member States of the European Union, European cooperation agencies and programmes, specialised international and regional organisations and networks of civil society organisations working in the field of drugs and development.