OIE Capacity building activities

OIE CAPACITY BUILDING ACTIVITIES Regional Information Seminar for Recently Appointed OIE Delegates 18 – 20 February 2014, Brussels, Belgium

Dr Mara Gonzalez OIE Regional Activities Department 1

« Treatment » Capacity Building, Specific Activities, Projects and Programs

Veterinary Legislation

« Diagnosis »

« Prescription »

PVS Evaluation

PVS Gap Analysis including Veterinary Services’ Strategic Priorities

Public / Private Partnerships

Veterinary Education

Laboratories The OIE collaborates with governments, donors and other stakeholders

PVS Pathway Follow-Up Missions

OIE capacity building activities “The treatment ”

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Capacity building programme for OIE Focal Points and New Delegates

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Activities of Reference Laboratories and Collaborating Centres

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Twining projects

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OIE capacity building activities “The treatment ”

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Capacity building programme for OIE Focal Points and New Delegates

To assist the OIE Delegate to exercise their rights and to comply with responsibilities

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Activities of Reference Laboratories and Collaborating Centres

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Twining projects 4

Actions currently carried out by the OIE for OIE Focal Points Capacity Building Programme and New Delegates 105 seminars/workshops organised up to 2013

Seminars/ workshops

Africa

Americas

Asia & Pacific

Europe

Middle East

Global WAHIS

Joint AfricaMiddle East

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Joint AmericaMiddle East 1

21 seminars/workshops to be realised in 2014

Seminars/ workshops

Africa

Americas

Asia & Pacific

Europe

Middle East

Global WAHIS

Joint AfricaMiddle East

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Forthcoming events in the region OIE regional seminar for New Delegates • OIE regional seminar for New Delegates Belgium, 18-20 February 2014

OIE regional seminars for national Focal Points • OIE regional seminar for National Focal Points on Wildlife  Russia, 28-30 April 2014 • OIE regional seminar for National Focal Points on Communication  Estonia, 1-3 July 2014 • OIE regional seminar for National Focal Points on animal disease notification (WAHIS)  Moldavia (tbc), 13-17 October 2014

• OIE regional seminar for National Focal Points on Veterinary Products  FYROM, 17-19 November 2014 6

OIE capacity building activities “The treatment ”

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Capacity building programme for OIE Focal Points and New Delegates

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Activities of Reference Laboratories (RL) and

Collaborating Centres (CC)  RL: world reference Centres of expertise on designated pathogens or diseases  CC: world reference Centres of excellence on cross-cutting issues

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Twining projects 7

OIE Reference Laboratories Centres of expertise in animal diseases

• Develop, conduct and validate diagnostic tests • Store and distribute reference reagents • Organise inter-laboratory proficiency testing • Coordinate technical and scientific studies • Provide technical and scientific training 8

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OIE Collaborating Centres Centres of excellence on cross-cutting issues

• Help to develop procedures for updating and promoting international standards and guidelines on animal health and welfare • Coordinate scientific studies • Organise training workshops

• Organise and host technical meetings in collaboration with the OIE 10

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OIE capacity building activities “The treatment ”

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Capacity building programme for OIE Focal

Points and New Delegates

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Activities of Reference Laboratories and Collaborating Centres

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OIE Twining projects Laboratory twining Veterinary Education Establishment Veterinary Statutory Body

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Laboratory Twining • facilitate capacity building and networking • build expertise for the most important animal diseases and zoonoses in priority regions • provide a more balanced north-south distribution of advanced expertise, allowing more countries to access high quality diagnostic testing and technical knowledge 13

Laboratory Twining • formulate science-based animal health control strategies and support the standard setting process of the OIE.

• links an existing OIE Reference Laboratory with a selected candidate laboratory. • Knowledge and skills are exchanged

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Veterinary Statutory Body Twining • VSBs ensure the control of veterinarians and veterinary para-professionnals • The strengthening of the VSBs is strategically important for improving the implementation of OIE international standards • Capacity building activity for developing and in transition countries • Consists of a transfer of knowledge, training and expertise from a ‘Parent VSB’ to a ‘Candidate VSB’ 15

Veterinary Statutory Body Twining • Flexible and adaptable approach, to take into account the diversity of situations: • a country with no VSB and no legislation for the establishment of such VSB • ‘advanced’ VSB but need to develop a new function (such as involvement in veterinary education)

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Veterinary Statutory Body Twining Objectives - To improve compliance with OIE standards on the quality of VS - To improve: - Licensing / registration of veterinarians and veterinary para-professionals - Deontology in the veterinary profession - Quality of veterinary education - It is expected that the ‘candidate’ VSB can become a ‘parent’ VSB and/or ‘regional referent’.

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Veterinary Education Twining • The OIE and the international community recognise the crucial role of veterinarians throughout national animal health systems/Veterinary Services. • Furthermore, they recognise the need to ensure an optimal level of fundamental skills to overcome problems related to the surveillance and control of OIE-listed diseases. • Twinning’ has been adopted by the OIE as a method for improving institutional capacity and expertise in developing and in-transition countries.

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Veterinary Education Twining • Based on: o OIE Guidelines on Veterinary Education Core Curriculum o OIE recommendations on the Competencies of graduating veterinarians (‘Day 1 graduates’) o the lessons learned from the OIE Veterinary Laboratory Twinning Programme.

• Involves the creation and supporting a link that facilitates the exchange of knowledge, ideas and experience between two Veterinary Education Establishments. • Aims to create more centres of excellence for veterinary education in geographic areas that are currently underrepresented, to achieve a better balance in the global distribution of well-educated veterinarians. 19

Veterinary Education Twining • Each twinning project is a partnership between one or more recognised and preferably accredited Veterinary Education Establishments and a Candidate Veterinary Education Establishment. The first will provide technical assistance, guidance and training. • The Candidate Establishment may wish at a later stage to eventually achieve accreditation under an existing, well-established accreditation body. • Objectives for each twinning project are jointly agreed by the OIE and the Directors/Deans of the participants (i.e. the Parent and Candidate Establishments) and endorsed by the National Delegates to the OIE of the countries concerned. 20

Veterinary Education Twining • Twinning aims to upgrade veterinary education, especially in relation to the needs of national Veterinary Services, to meet satisfactorily the international standards established by the OIE. • Twinning is part of the wider OIE initiative to improve the capacity of Veterinary Services in developing countries; it therefore has synergy with the OIE PVS Pathway and the complementary OIE Laboratory Twinning Programme.

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Thank you for your attention!

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