• The poorest communities living in the most dangerous areas are being left behind. Many survive by engaging in illicit crop production, despite the violence and coercion it brings, because their marginalisation and exclusion from public services and markets leave them almost no other choice.
• Failure to tackle illicit economies as part of development rather than simply a law enforcement issue leads to missed opportunities for peacebuilding.
• Reliance on the SDG metrics alone (targets and indicators) based on the nation-state as the unit of analysis makes the SDGs blind to the cross-border impacts of illicit economies and ignores the agency of people at sub-national level making unorthodox choices to survive.

Support for development initiatives in conflict-affected territories where illicit economies have become the means for survival are strengthened.

There is more awareness about the stigmatization of illicit crop producers. They deserve development support and are the communities that are most vulnerable and left behind.

The SDGs are tracked and monitored beyond the state-centric model

Illicit livelihoods are addressed in peace processes.

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