US embassy cable - 05OTTAWA1673

UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 05 OTTAWA 001673 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE 
 
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Sequita Robinson; 
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E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KPAO, OEXC, SCUL, CA, IV Program 
SUBJECT: FY 2006 IVLP MRP on Substance Abuse, Education, 
Treatment and Prevention (November 10-December 1, 2005), 
Canadian Candidate Zarina Mulla (Alternate, pending 
availability funds) 
 
REFERENCE:  OTTAWA 1504 
 
1.   Post is pleased to nominate Zarina Mulla, Social 
Planner, City of Vancouver Drug Policy Program for the 
subject MRP or an individual program on Drug Abuse 
Prevention, Education and Treatment, pending availability of 
FY2006 funding.  EVDB-formatted nomination follows. 
 
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: The following data is in a fixed format which enables 
: automated processing in Washington and should not be 
: edited except by means of the Post-EVDB software. 
EXPORT-SOURCE: POST-EVDB 
VERSION: 3.0.7 
POST-EMAIL: slw@pd.state.gov 
TRANSMITTING-POST: PAS Ottawa 
TRANSMITTING-POST-ID: 6540 
EXPORT-TYPE: BIO DATA 
START NOMINATION: 
ECA-OFFICE: E/VM 
PROG-AGENCY-NAME: 
POST-PROJ-ID: 364 
ECA-PROJ-NO: 
PROJ-NAME: Mulla, Zarina - MRP Drug Abuse Prevention, 
Treatment and Education 
START MEMO PROJ-DESC: 
 
END MEMO PROJ-DESC: 
PROJ-TYPE: Multi-Regional 
PROG-TYPE: IV Group Projects 
FY: 2006 
DEPART-POST: 11/10/2005 
SESSION-DATE: 11/10/2005 
RETURN-POST: 12/1/2005 
NO-OF-PART: 1 
RANK-ORDER: 35 
START MEMO POST-OBJ: 
Zarina Mulla is social planner for the City of Vancouver's 
Drug Policy Program. In this capacity, she is responsible 
for developing drug prevention programs that educate 
Vancouver's public on the dangers of drug abuse. Zarina has 
a strong interest in visiting U.S. municipal drug prevention 
programs to learn more about effective ways of providing 
community-based drug abuse education. We believe she is an 
excellent candidate for the IVL Multi-Regional Project on 
Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment and Education scheduled for 
November 10 - December 1, 2005. 
In 2001, the City of Vancouver's Drug Policy Program 
implemented the Four Pillars Drug Strategy, its nationally 
acclaimed policy and plan for reducing drug-related harm in 
Vancouver. The plan called for efforts to address drug abuse 
through four areas: harm reduction, enforcement, treatment 
and prevention. To date, most attention from politicians and 
policymakers has been given to the first pillar of harm 
reduction. Harm reduction receives public support from all 
directions to promote efforts to reduce the harm drug 
abusers inflict on themselves through controversial programs 
such as the Supervised Injection Site. Enforcement efforts 
make news daily, though primarily on arrests rather than 
convictions. Treatment receives some additional attention 
through a focus on needle exchange programs, methadone 
clinics, and the medically prescribed heroine trials 
currently underway known as the NAOMI Project. 
The pillar of drug prevention, however, receives very little 
public attention despite its goal of educating the public on 
the dangers of drugs. Zarina Mulla leads her office to 
create programs that aim to foster dialogue at community 
centers and schools on drug abuse education. She organizes 
dozens of creative programs, but Vancouver officials and the 
local media fail to promote them actively. Zarina is open to 
new, innovative approaches to community drug prevention 
programs that will catch the public's attention. We believe 
that participation in the IVL program will give her the 
opportunity to study such innovative approaches currently in 
use in the U.S. The knowledge she would gain through the 
program could then be applied to her efforts to provide 
Vancouver's population with effective drug prevention 
programming. 
Zarina came to Vancouver's Drug Policy Program in 2003, 
bringing extensive experience working with young ex-drug 
abusers during a stint overseas in Thailand. She works 
directly under Donald MacPherson, the Drug Policy 
Coordinator for Vancouver and chief architect of the Four 
Pillars Drug Strategy. Zarina is committed to a career in 
drug policy planning and will continue to play an important 
role in designing Vancouver's drug prevention programming 
and policy for years to come. For these reasons, we believe 
she is an ideal IVL Program candidate. 
END MEMO POST-OBJ: 
START MEMO POST-RCMD: 
We believe Ms. Mulla is an excellent candidate for the IVL 
Multi-Regional Project on Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment 
and Education scheduled for November 10 - December 1, 2005. 
It sounds as if this program will cover all areas she would 
like to learn more about. 
END MEMO POST-RCMD: 
ECA-OFFICE-ID: 1027 
PROG-AGENCY-ID: 
PROJ-TYPE-ID: MRP 
PROG-TYPE-ID: 31 
NOMINATING-POST-ID: 88501 
FUNDING-CNTRY-ID: 322158 
STATUS: N 
ORIGINATOR: P 
SUBJ-DISC: Drug Issues 
START BIO: 
PREFIX: Ms. 
F-NAME: Zarina 
M-NAME: 
L-NAME: Mulla 
SUFFIX: 
POSITION-CODE: 134 
PRINCIPAL?: No 
GENDER: F 
DOB: 05/19/1959 
MAR-STAT: S 
BIRTH-CITY: Navsari 
BIRTH-CNTRY: India 
CITIZ-CNTRY: India 
RES-CNTRY: Canada 
START MEMO POSITION: 
Social Planner, Drug Policy Program - City of Vancouver 
END MEMO POSITION: 
START MEMO OTHER-POSITIONS: 
 
END MEMO OTHER-POSITIONS: 
START MEMO PREV-POSITIONS: 
Project Advisor to Ruam Mit, a Thai Non-profit providing 
vocational and skills training to marginalised street 
children who were mostly ex-drug users or at high risk - 
German Development Service, Chiang Mai, Thailand (1999- 
2003); 
Researcher and Writer, Spirit In Education Movement, 
Thailand As Canadian Development Cooperant CUSO (Canadian 
University Services Overseas) (1997-1999); 
Communications Coordinator, Social Planning and Research 
Council of BC (SPARC), Vancouver, Canada (1997); 
Consultant on Vietnam Linkage Project, The Centre for Human 
Settlements, UBC, Vancouver, Canada (in Vietnam, 1993 Nov - 
1994 August). 
END MEMO PREV-POSITIONS: 
START MEMO US-TRAVEL: 
Seattle, partnership with University of Washington and 
University of British Columbia planning departments to plan 
for a project in Fairbanks, Alaska (1993); 
Fairbanks, AK as part of a student consultant team to plan 
for sustainable land use concepts for downtown 
revitalization. (May 1993). Partly funded by both 
Universities. 
END MEMO US-TRAVEL: 
START MEMO OTHER-TRAVEL: 
Lived and worked/studied in France, Germany, Vietnam, and 
Thailand 
END MEMO OTHER-TRAVEL: 
START MEMO EDUCATION: 
Master of Arts (Planning) in Community and Regional 
Planning, School of Community and Regional Planning, The 
University of British Columbia (1995) 
Master of Arts in Teaching French as a Foreign Language, 
Universit PaulValry, Montpellier, France  (1989) 
) 
Master of Arts in German Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru 
University, New Delhi, India (1983) 
Bachelor of Arts, Bombay University, India (1979). 
END MEMO EDUCATION: 
START MEMO MEMBERSHIPS: 
 
END MEMO MEMBERSHIPS: 
START MEMO PUBLICATIONS: 
Mulla, Zarina and Peter Boothroyd, "Development-oriented 
NGOs of Vietnam," 
Centre for Human Settlements, The University of British 
Columbia, August 1994. 
Mulla Zarina, "Ihre Augen leuchten vor Spielfreude", DED 
Brief, 1-2 2001(an article on AIDS in Thailand) 
END MEMO PUBLICATIONS: 
START MEMO SPEC-CONSID: 
Vegetarian (ovo-lacto) 
END MEMO SPEC-CONSID: 
FIRST-LANG: English 
ENGL-READ: 5 
ENGL-SPEAK: 5 
ENGL-COMP: 5 
START OTHER-LANGS: 
OTHER-LANG: Gujarati 
OTHER-LANG-ID: GW 
READ: 5 
SPEAK: 5 
COMP: 5 
END OTHER-LANGS: 
START OTHER-LANGS: 
OTHER-LANG: Other 
OTHER-LANG-ID: YZ 
READ: 5 
SPEAK: 5 
COMP: 5 
END OTHER-LANGS: 
START OTHER-LANGS: 
OTHER-LANG: Marathi 
OTHER-LANG-ID: MR 
READ: 5 
SPEAK: 5 
COMP: 5 
END OTHER-LANGS: 
START OTHER-LANGS: 
OTHER-LANG: French 
OTHER-LANG-ID: FR 
READ: 5 
SPEAK: 5 
COMP: 5 
END OTHER-LANGS: 
START OTHER-LANGS: 
OTHER-LANG: German 
OTHER-LANG-ID: GM 
READ: 5 
SPEAK: 5 
COMP: 5 
END OTHER-LANGS: 
START OTHER-LANGS: 
OTHER-LANG: Thai 
OTHER-LANG-ID: TH 
READ: 3 
SPEAK: 5 
COMP: 5 
END OTHER-LANGS: 
START OTHER-LANGS: 
OTHER-LANG: Spanish 
OTHER-LANG-ID: QB 
READ: 3 
SPEAK: 3 
COMP: 3 
END OTHER-LANGS: 
START MEMO NOM-POST-OBJ: 
 
END MEMO NOM-POST-OBJ: 
START MEMO NOM-POST-RCMD: 
 
END MEMO NOM-POST-RCMD: 
START MEMO VIS-OBJ: 
 
END MEMO VIS-OBJ: 
START MEMO VIS-REC: 
 
END MEMO VIS-REC: 
NOMINATING-OFFICER: Luis Arreaga, CG; Ian Hillman, PAO; 
Sanjay Ramesh, 
START MEMO NOMINATING-JUSTIFICATION: 
Zarina Mulla is social planner for the City of Vancouver's 
Drug Policy Program. In this capacity, she is responsible 
for developing drug prevention programs that educate 
Vancouver's public on the dangers of drug abuse. Zarina has 
a strong interest in visiting U.S. municipal drug prevention 
programs to learn more about effective ways of providing 
community-based drug abuse education. We believe she is an 
excellent candidate for the IVLP Multi-Regional Project on 
Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment and Education scheduled for 
November 10 - December 1, 2005. 
In 2001, the City of Vancouver's Drug Policy Program 
implemented the Four Pillars Drug Strategy, its nationally 
acclaimed policy and plan for reducing drug-related harm in 
Vancouver. The plan called for efforts to address drug abuse 
through four areas: harm reduction, enforcement, treatment 
and prevention. To date, most attention from politicians and 
policymakers has been given to the first pillar of harm 
reduction. Harm reduction receives public support from all 
directions to promote efforts to reduce the harm drug 
abusers inflict on themselves through controversial programs 
such as the Supervised Injection Site. Enforcement efforts 
make news daily, though primarily on arrests rather than 
convictions. Treatment receives some additional attention 
through a focus on needle exchange programs, methadone 
clinics, and the medically prescribed heroine trials 
currently underway known as the NAOMI Project. 
The pillar of drug prevention, however, receives very little 
public attention despite its goal of educating the public on 
the dangers of drugs. 
Zarina Mulla leads her office to create programs that aim to 
foster dialogue at community centers and schools on drug 
abuse education. She organizes dozens of creative programs, 
but Vancouver officials and the local media fail to promote 
them actively. Zarina is open to new, innovative approaches 
to community drug prevention programs that will catch the 
public's attention. We believe that participation in the IVL 
program will give her the opportunity to study such 
innovative approaches currently in use in the U.S. The 
knowledge she would gain through the program could then be 
applied to her efforts to provide Vancouver's population 
with effective drug prevention programming. 
Zarina came to Vancouver's Drug Policy Program in 2003, 
bringing extensive experience working with young ex-drug 
abusers during a stint overseas in Thailand. She works 
directly under Donald MacPherson, the Drug Policy 
Coordinator for Vancouver and chief architect of the Four 
Pillars Drug Strategy. Zarina is committed to a career in 
drug policy planning and will continue to play an important 
role in designing Vancouver's drug prevention programming 
and policy for years to come. For these reasons, we believe 
she is an ideal IVL Program candidate. 
This nomination supports the Mission's goal of fighting the 
criminal activity and public health problems that accompany 
drug abuse. 
 
 
 
END MEMO NOMINATING-JUSTIFICATION: 
NOM-OFF: ConGen Vancouver 
SPEAKER?: No 
NOTIFY-EMB: No 
MEDIA?: No 
HOME-STAY: No 
HOME-HOSP?: Yes 
E-I-TYPE: ELEO 
NOMINEE-ID: 537 
PERSON-ID: 415 
BIRTH-CNTRY-ID: IN 
CITIZ-CNTRY-ID: IN 
RES-CNTRY-ID: CA 
FIRST-LANG-ID: EN 
E-I-TYPE-ID: E 
NOM-POST-ID: 88501 
NOM-FUNDING-CNTRY-ID: 322158 
NOM-STATUS: N 
DS2019-ACTION: 1 
DS2019-SUBJECT: 51.1501 
SPONS-FUNDS: 0 
SPONS-AGENCY1: 
USGOVT-AGENCY1: 
US-AGENCY-AMT1: 0 
USGOVT-AGENCY2: 
US-AGENCY-AMT2: 0 
INTL-ORG1: 
INTL-ORG-AMOUNT1: 0 
INTL-ORG2: 
INTL-ORG-AMOUNT2: 0 
VIS-GOVT-AMT: 0 
COMMISSION: 0 
OTHER-AMOUNT: 0 
VIS-AMOUNT: 0 
VIS-CAT: 5 
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DICKSON, CHARGE