Coact Technical Support is a not-for-profit company registered in the UK and with community consultants based around the world.
We support efforts to deliver harm reduction, drug treatment and community mobilisation with people who use drugs drawing on our lived experience and professional backgrounds.
Mat Southwell
Management & Technical Director
Alexei Lakhov
Technical Consultant
Tatyana Sleiman
Technical Consultant
Gayané Arustamyan
Technical Consultant
Igor Kuzmenko
Technical Consultant
Alla Bessonova
Technical Consultant
Dr. Ifekandu Edekandu Chiedu
Technical Consultant
Beccy Rawnsley
Operations Manager
Who We Are
About coact
Coact draws on lived and professional experience to foster meaningful partnerships between service providers, policymakers, researchers and people who use drugs.
Coact Consultants draw on our lived and living experience of drugs and our professional backgrounds to help strengthen harm reduction and drug treatment programmes and develop co-productions with people who use drugs.
Coact Consultants have contributed to the development of high-level guidelines and technical resources. Our technical advice and resources champion globally recommended good practices backed up by the research evidence.
Coact is a technical not representative agency. Many of our consultants have worked as high level advocates and representatives for people who use drugs engaging the United Nations, European Union, and other multilateral bodies. This equips us to technically support those playing advocacy or representative roles.
Working Languages
Coact Consultants speak Arabic, English, French and Russian and are experienced working with translators and translation tools.
Coact – "to work together, especially to achieve something or to have an effect" (Cambridge Dictionary)
We work with organisations, researchers, service providers and communities on projects across harm reduction, drug treatment and community mobilisation
