RESET Alcohol Initiative
RESET Alcohol brings together civil society, researchers and global technical experts to assist national governments to implement best practice alcohol policies from the World Health Organization's SAFER technical package aimed at reducing alcohol harms. The primary focus of the initiative is to increase alcohol taxation to levels that will increase prices and reduce consumption, which is known to be the most effective intervention to reduce alcohol harms. The initiative also seeks targeted opportunities to regulate availability and restrict marketing.
RESET Alcohol provides financial and technical support to research institutions, civil society organizations, and governments in focus countries to:
- Conduct policy-relevant research: Partners generate the evidence needed to convince policymakers of the benefits of increasing alcohol taxation for health and social gains.
- Advocate: Partners develop and implement evidence-based advocacy for higher alcohol taxation and other high-impact policies.
- Communicate: Partners develop and implement evidence-based strategic communication on alcohol harms and policies, including message-tested media materials and strategically placed media campaigns.
- Conduct legal analysis: Partners provide guidance to support stronger and more effective laws to curb alcohol harms.
- Monitor policies and analyze epidemiologic data: Partners analyze and use epidemiological data on alcohol consumption and harms, and monitor local policies to inform advocacy, communication and policy planning.
The RESET Alcohol initiative is a collaboration between partners from Vital Strategies, World Health Organization and Pan-American Health Organization, Movendi International, JHU Economics for Health, and Global Alcohol Policy Alliance with funding from a Open Philanthropy grant to Vital Strategies.