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Joana Canêdo is currently a PhD candidate in Development Studies at Ithe Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon. She is an activist for the rights of people who use drugs, and member of the Executive Committee of EuroNPUD (European Network of People Who Use Drugs) having been part of several regional and international forums. Expert in drug policy, harm reduction and public policies, she has been researching drug policy since 2014 focusing on decriminalization, legalization as well as on the participation of people who use drugs in the design, implementation and monitoring of innovative programs. In recent years she has worked with women and non-binary people who use drugs and do sex work at the Treatments Action Group, GAT Portugal. Previously part of the coordination team of Metzineres in Barcelona, she is now dedicated to promote peer-led initiatives, such as Manas, a collective by women who use drugs and who are survivors of multiple violence based in Lisbon. Interested in participatory action research, Joana has also been a policy officer at the NGDO Agência Piaget for Development (APDES) between 2016 and 2019. She has a degree in Political Science and International Relations Relations (FCSH-NOVA) and has a master's degree in Economics and Public Policy (ISCTE-IUL).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Joana Francisca Canêdo dos Santos Barroso Dias

Citation names

  • Canêdo, Joana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
951D-49BC-434F

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (Portugal) 969497034 (Personal)

Addresses

  • Rua General Justiniano Padrel 7 2 esquerdo, 1170-152, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Political Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2022/09/01 - 2026/11/30
Ongoing
 Development Studies (Doutoramento)
Major in Drug Policy, Harm Reduction, Urban Studies
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
"Making visible the invisible: drug users movements in the cities of Lisbon and Port Louis" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2020/11/25 - 2021/10/31
Concluded
 Desenvolvimento Local Colaborativo (Pós-Graduação)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional do Porto, Portugal
 17
2019
Concluded
 Economia e Políticas Públicas (Mestrado)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
"Custos e benefícios de duas opções políticas para a cannabis: descriminação e legalização (Portugal e Uruguai) " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15
2015/02 - 2015/07
Concluded
 Educación (Graduado)
Major in Teorias da Aprendizagem e Teorias do Ensino; Problemas Contemporâneos Educativos
Universidad ORT Uruguay, Uruguay
2009/09/15 - 2013/08/28
Concluded
 Ciência Política e Relações Internacionais (Licenciatura)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
 17,2
2012/09 - 2012/09
Concluded
 European Studies (Bachelor)
Haagsche Hogeschool, Netherlands
 9 out of 10
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/09/01 - Current MANAS GAT - Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos, Portugal
2020/08/01 - Current Community-led Organization European network of people who use drugs, Portugal
2020/07/01 - 2022/11/30 NGO GAT - Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos, Portugal
2019/07/15 - 2020/06/05 Cooperativa Metzineres - Entornos de Abrigo para Mulheres que Usam Drogas, Spain
2016/07/01 - 2019/05/15 NGO Instituto Piaget Unidade de Investigação em Educação e Intervenção Comunitária, Portugal
Agência Piaget para o Desenvolvimento, Portugal
2015/10/01 - 2016/03/31 Research Office Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/09/18 - Current Making visible the invisible: drug users movements in the city of Lisbon and Port Louis
2022.11855.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2015/10/01 - 2016/03/31 Research Assistant
UID/ECO/00124/2013
Scientific Initiation Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/06 - 2023/06 Intendente Insurgente
BIPZIP
Technical development
Camara Municipal de Lisboa, Portugal
 Camara Municipal de Lisboa
Concluded
2016/09/01 - 2018/09/01 SSE.IVET - Social and Solidarity Economy: Affirming a new paradigm through IVET innovation
2016-1-PT01-KA202-022856
Other
Agência Piaget para o Desenvolvimento, Portugal
 European Commission
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2021/01/04 - Current MANAS: Grupo de apoio mútuo entre mulheres sobreviventes a múltiplas violências
MANAS
Co-fundadora e ativista
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Canêdo, Joana. "Dossiêr "Violência sobre mulheres (LGBTQIAPN+): representações, discriminação e respostas no Brasil e em Portugal"". Paper presented in Conferência Internacional Mulher, Género e Interseccionalidade no Mundo Lusófono, Ponta Delgada, 2022.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Canêdo, Joana. "Harm reduction calls to action from young people who use drugs on the streets of Vancouver and Lisbon". Paper presented in Lx Addictions, 2023.
  2. Canêdo, Joana; Ferreira, Magda. "MANAS, a Peer-Led Project Among Women Using Drugs and Engaging in Sex Work". Paper presented in International Network on Health and Hepatitis in Substance Users, 2023.
  3. Curado, Adriana; Leite, Ângela; Pires, Joana; Caldas, João. "Drug Consumption Rooms and Peer Involvement: Experiences from Lisbon". Paper presented in International Conference on Health and Hepatitis Care in Substance Users (INHSU), 2022.
  4. Canêdo, Joana; Ferreira, Magda ; MELO, ANA LUISA S.; Dias, Claudia; Melo, Teresa; Lewandoski, Larissa; Curado, Adriana. "MANAS. From a mutual support group to artistic and holistic practices - on the road to a new service in the city of Lisbon". Paper presented in Fast Track Cities, 2021.
  5. Rêgo, Ximene; Canêdo, Joana; RODRIGUES, CLÁUDIA; Gren, Jakub; Queiroz, José. "Is crack wack? Advocating for low-threshold harm reduction clients ' rights". Paper presented in Harm Reduction International Conference, 2017.
Journal article
  1. Canêdo, Joana. "Bottom-up contributions to drug policy innovation through peer-led responses to gender-based violence". (2024):
    In press
  2. Ghosh, Abhishek; Jerkovic, Dijana; Ignjatova, Liljana Aleksandar; Bruguera, Carla; Ibrahim, Dalia I.; Okulicz-Kozaryn, Katarzyna; Maphisa, J. Maphisa; et al. "Drug policies sensitivity towards women, pregnancy, and motherhood: a content analysis of national policy and programs from nine countries and their adherence to international guidelines". Addiction Science & Clinical Practice 18 1 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13722-023-00410-0.
    10.1186/s13722-023-00410-0
  3. Canêdo, Joana; Sedgemore, Kali-olt; Ebbert, Kelly; Anderson, Haleigh; Dykeman, Rainbow; Kincaid, Katey; Dias, Claudia; et al. Corresponding author: Fast, Danya. "Harm reduction calls to action from young people who use drugs on the streets of Vancouver and Lisbon". Harm Reduction Journal 19 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-022-00607-7.
    Open access • Published • 10.1186/s12954-022-00607-7
  4. Pavarin, Raimondo Maria; Rego, Ximene; Nostrani, Elia; De Caro, Elia; Biolcati, Roberta; Canêdo, Joana; Sanchini, Samantha. "Differences between subjects with socially integrated drug use: a study in Italy and Portugal". Journal of Substance Use 25 4 (2020): 449-455. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14659891.2020.1736660.
    10.1080/14659891.2020.1736660
Magazine article
  1. Canêdo, Joana; Sedgemore, Kali-olt; Fast, Danya. "We Need Harm Reduction Built for and Led by Youth Who Use Drugs", Filter Magazine, 2023, https://filtermag.org/harm-reduction-youth/.
Manual
  1. Symeonides, Alexandra; Canêdo, Joana; Loria, Luana; Ferreira, Magda. Intendente Insurgente: Manual de Formação para Livreiras e Bibliotecárias Insurgentes. Lisboa, Portugal: Livraria das Insurgentes e GAT Portugal/ Manas. 2023.
    Published
Newspaper article
  1. Canêdo, Joana. "Apoie. Não Puna: uma campanha para reflectir sobre a política de droga", Público, 2017, https://www.publico.pt/2017/06/25/p3/cronica/apoie-nao-puna-uma-campanha-para-reflectir-sobre-a-politica-de-droga-1828157.
Preface / Postscript
  1. Canedo, Joana. "Balada da Rita". Preface to Puta Feminista, 7-19. Lisboa, Portugal: Orfeu Negro. 2023.
    Published
Working paper
  1. Canêdo, Joana; Mora, Sofia; Nardi, Jason; Combes, Josette; Vetan, Mihaela; Bonifazi, Chiara; Vlckova, Gabriela; et al. Corresponding author: Combes, Josette. 2017. "Mapping opportunities and constraints for affirming the Social Solidarity Economy in Initial Vocational Education and Training curricula". https://apdes.pt/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Mapeamento-de-oportunidades-e-constrangimentos-%C3%A0-afirma%C3%A7%C3%A3o-da-ESS-nos-curr%C3%ADculos-de-FPI-Completo-EN.pdf.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition
  1. International Overdose Awareness Day. 2019.
Theatre play
  1. 2023. She loved as f*ck!.
Video recording
  1. Canêdo, Joana; MOURA, marcos; Parodi, Ligia; Pires, Joana; Diniz, Inês; Joana Canedo (Producer); Fernando Penderlico (Director). 2022. Inside drug user's invisibilities. Inter GLAM.
  2. Canêdo, Joana; Lewandovski, Larissa; Ferreira, Magda ; Tavares, Sónia; Duarte, Vanda; Barros, Edna; Duarte, Joana; Joana Canedo (Producer); Larissa Lewandovski (Director). 2020. Six Women, One Seed. Rights Reporter Foundation (Drug Reporter, Hungary); International Network of People Who Use Drugs.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/01/24 Artistic practices fighting back social exclusion: MANAS case study. Reflections on performance, video and photography as a way to achieve self-steem and emancipatory politics Anounimous artists
Gallery Quadrasoltas (Porto, Portugal)
2023/12/14 Mulheres sobreviventes a múltiplas violências: o apoio mútuo como fio condutor Rostos da Violênicia - Mapeamento, Prevenção e Cidadania Ativa
Instituto Piaget de Viseu (Portugal)
2023/10/03 In defense of decriminalization Drug Decriminalization
International Drug Policy Consortium
2023/09/30 MANAS: Contributos bottom-up para a inovação da política de drogas através de respostas à violência de género lideradas por pares SIAP (Seminário em Inovação em Atenção Primária)
(Porto, Portugal)
2023/04/13 MANAS: um projecto de apoio mútuo entre mulheres consumidoras de drogas e trabalhadoras do sexo XXXIII Encontro das Taipas: (Con)Tradição
Taipas e SICAD (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/11/24 Harm reduction calls to action from young people who use drugs on the streets of Vancouver and Lisbon Lx Addictions
Lisboa
2022/09/21 CND intersessional meeting on human rights: the rights of people who use drugs A HUMAN RIGHTS BASED APPROACH TO DRUG POLICY: THE ROLE OF THE COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS
Global Commission on Drug Policy (GCDP) (Viena, Austria)
2022/06/03 MANAS, women surviving multiple violence fighting back the war on drugs In Women's Conference
InWomen’s International Group (Minnesota, United States)
2022/05/30 Gender and interculturalism Health, Gender and Interculturalism
Portuguese Network of Intercultural Cities (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/05/12 Contribuições para as políticas de drug checking em debate final e diálogo político, no âmbito do projeto Europeu SCANNER Drug Checking Cities: Where humanism and science intersect
Kosmicare (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/11/04 Peer-led harm reduction: peer to peer Naloxone distribution 5th European Harm Reduction Conference
Correlation Network (Praga, Czech Republic)
2021/11 Drug Policy Index: the portuguese decriminalization model Launch of the drug policy index
International Drug Policy Consortium
2020/03/03 International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Policy: addressing gaps on intersectionality Young People Who Use Drugs - Bridging the gaps between Human Rights and Young Key Populations
Commission of Narcotics and Drugs (Viena, Austria)
2019/04/29 "Drugs are not born in trees or sent to parties with the force of a Jedi": on Law Enforcement and Youth, addressing decriminalization gaps Harm Reduction International Conference
HRI (Porto, Portugal)
2018/10/24 15 years of the portuguese drug policy reform: opportunities and challenges to decrim Policy Dialogue Meeting
Diogenis _ Greek Network of NGO (Nicósia , Cyprus)
2018/01/19 Conferência sobre a legalização da canábis na Assembleia da República Cannabis Legalization
The Left Bloc (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/03/06 Youth and Law Enforcement Agencies: A portuguese perspective. Young People Who Use Drugs - Bridging the gaps between Human Rights and Young Key Populations
Youth Rise, YODA at United Nations (Viena, Austria)
2017 The Portuguese Decriminalization Model and its impacts. Services for the Treatment and Harm Reduction in Times of Economic Crisis: Developments and Challenges
European Commission; Open Society Foundations, Diogenis – Drug Policy Dialogue (Nicósia, Cyprus)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2021/06/26 - Current Support Don't Punish - Campanha de Ação Global contra políticas punitivas (2021/06/26)
Round table
2021/01/06 - Current Manas safer space - mutual support group among women surviving to multiple violence. Weekly meetings running since January 2021 Harm reduction sessions, mutual aid, non-formal education activities Organizing and producing all the activities of the group Support in social and health issues of participants (2021/01/06)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
2020/05/05 - Current Support Don't Punish Campign Corddination (2020/05/05)
Other (Co-organisor)
2019/08/31 - Current International Overdose Awareness Day - joint action in Barcelona, in the memory of those that have died from OD. Production of the event and organizing with the community of people who use drugs. Concerts, exhibition and radio program. (2019/08/31)
Exhibition (Co-organisor)
2023/12/13 - 2023/12/13 Organização da conferência "Nós, mulheres que usamos drogas, existimos!", que teve no lugar no ICS-UL. Concretização dos painéis comunitários e de discussão política. (2023/12/13 - 2023/12/13)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

GAT - Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos, Portugal
2021/06/26 - 2021/06/26 Campanha em espaço público "Support Don't Punish - Global Day of Action for and by people who use drugs" (2021/06/26)
Round table (Co-organisor)
 GAT - Grupo de Ativistas em Tratamentos, Portugal
2015/10/15 - 2016/03/31 Organization of research events (seminars, workshops, etc.) for Economics, Management, EDEEM and Tropikman PhD departments. (2015/10/01 - 2016/03/31)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/10/17 - 2023/10/21 INHSU Community Day: Reflections on different models of care for Drug Consumption Rooms International Conference on Health and Hepatitis Care in Substance Users (INHSU)
2023/06/29 - 2023/06/29 Feminist Talks at CES (University of Coimbra). Interview by Irina Castro.
Conference
 Conversa Feminista com Joana Canêdo
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2022/06/27 - 2022/07/08 Estudante convidada no âmbito da European Drugs Summer School. Co-organização do evento em parceria com a Escola de Políticas Públicas do ISCTE-IUL. Organização de study visits. European Drugs Summer School 2022
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Sociologia e Políticas Públicas, Portugal
2021/11 - 2021/11 Trauma Informed Care, Gendered approach to young women experiencing homelessness,
Workshop
 Gendered approach to young women experiencing homelessness
FEANTSA, Hungary
2018/11/21 - 2018/11/23 Harm Reduction European Conference, Romania, Bucharest 2018 - discussing results on the implementation of the EUROsider study for prevention of HIV/ Hep C through safer injection The 4th European Harm Reduction Conference
Correlation Network, Netherlands
2018/06/17 - 2018/06/24 Advocacy _ The Good Lobby Advocacy School
The Good Lobby, Belgium
2017/09/04 - 2017/09/08 European Summer School of Solidarity Economy
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2019/05/19 - Current GAT Portugal Assembleias Gerais, Voluntariado

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2024/01/15 - Current Valorações e reflexões no âmbito de evento institucional sobre os contextos de recreação noturna em Coimbra, desde uma perspetiva de redução de riscos e minimização de danos. Associação Existências, Portugal
2023/01/17 - 2023/01/17 IDPC Session of Substance (Vol. 1) - Successes in drug policy advocacy: How-to & learning International Drug Policy Consortium, United Kingdom

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/10/27 - 2023/10/27 Mulheres e drogas: apoio mútuo, participação e redução de danos Mulheres e Drogas Serviço de Intervenção nos Comportamentos Aditivos e nas Dependências IP, Portugal
2021/11/21 - 2021/11/27 Gendered Approach to youth Homelessness FEANTSA, Hungary

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2024/02 LENOCÍNIO SIMPLES: EXPLORAÇÃO OU AUTODETERMINAÇÃO? Gerador
2024/01/18 À Conversa sobre Livros com Joana Canedo Leituras Queer
2023/02/06 Participação em entrevista sobre barreiras de acesso à PREP por parte de trabalhadoras do sexo e mulheres que usam drogas Gerador
2022/03/31 Entrevista sobre análise de substâncias psicoativas, em parceria com a Kosmicare. Diário de Notícias - Magazine

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2023/01/13 - 2023/01/13 Interview in Radio Movimento PT Online- Passagens Manas & Intendente Insurgente
2021/06/26 - 2021/06/26 Inside drug users' (in)visibilities Human rights of people who use drugs

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2023/09/15 - Current MANAS: práticas artísticas e redução de danos entre mulheres sobreviventes a violências Mariana Sampaio

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2018/05 - 2018/06 SEEN Erasmus + Project: Exchange among harm reduction professionals Agência Piaget para o Desenvolvimento, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2022 #Morethan Video Contest
2013 ISCTE-IUL

Other distinction

2022 Travel award