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1. EU-SHAREPPRProject
Gijs van ‘t Klooster
EU-SHAREPPR Project Team Leader,
Food and Agricultural Office (FAO) -Ethiopia
HEARD InceptionWorkshop,ILRI,AddisAbaba,
29March2019
Key achievements and strategic impacts
3. HEARDInception Workshop, ILRI, 29March
Project title:
Project code:
Donor:
Pursuing Pastoralist Resilience in Pastoral Areas of
Ethiopia
GCP/ETH/083/EU
European Union
Budget: 9,277,294 Euros
Implementing partners: MoA, VSFSuisse, VSF-Germany,RVC.
Duration:
Start/end date:
40 months, extended by 22months
25 July 2014 (Nov 2015)/ 24 September2019
1. Project profile
4. HEARDInception Workshop, ILRI, 29March
Project outputs/results:
Result 1: - Improved real time understanding of the disease status in the
pastoralist areas of thecountry
Result 2: - Improved quantity and quality of vaccine production at the National
Veterinary Institute (NVI).
Result 3: - Improved capacity to implement disease control programmes
particularly PPRandSGP
Result 4: - Improved national ®ional animal disease control coordination
1. Project profile
5. HEARDInception Workshop, ILRI, 29March
1. Project profile
• The project operates
mainly in the lowland
pastoral areas
• Since 2018: highland-
lowland interface areas
included
6. HEARDInception Workshop, ILRI, 29March
Project management
• EUSHAREPPRProject is implemented mainly by MoA(incl. NAHDICandNVI)
• National Coordination Office (MoA + FAO)
– Set-up Branch CoordinationOffices
– In pastoral areas
– In interface areas
– Other IPs include VSFSuisse and VSFGermany
• FAOreleases budget to implementingpartners
through LoAs
1. Project profile
VSF Suisse
VSF
Germ
9. HEARDInception Workshop, ILRI, 29March
• Piloting started in 2014, 280sites
• Expansion of ADNISby the project isunderway
• ADNISToTgiven to 58 experts from 6 regions
• ADNIScascaded to 686 vets from 6regions
Constraints
• Expansion of ADNIS suspended in 2018 due to server and security
related issues
• Internet-based has become functional in January 2019
• Project supported the development of an option to transmit the ODK report
as an SMS message to the ADNIS server
• Guidelines including incentive scheme is yet to be endorsed by the MoA
Key achievements: Result 1.1.b Improved disease notification - ADNIS
10. HEARDInception Workshop, ILRI, 29March
Key achievements: Improved awareness on PPR and major TADS
PPR posters, roll up stands and leaflets prepared and
displayed/distributed to stakeholders during different
events
Radio messages about PPR symptoms, prevention and
control broadcasted for 3 months in 3 local languages
TV message on PPR broadcasted for 3 months inAfar
and Somali languages
Project impact radio-documentary produced and
broadcasted for 3 weeks
12. HEARDInception Workshop, ILRI, 29March
Participatory / Syndromic Disease
Surveillance (PDS)
PDS training given to 586 experts of 6regions
PDS and outbreak investigations in 96
districts of 6 regions
• using Rapid PPR test kit
• PPR outbreak confirmed in 54 districts
Keyachievements: Improved active disease surveillancesystem
13. HEARDInception Workshop, ILRI, 29March
Participatory Disease Surveillance and Outbreak Investigations by year
Keyachievements: Improved active disease surveillancesystem
15. HEARDInception Workshop, ILRI, 29March
• NVIproduced and supplied 21,140,000 doses PPR
vaccine to the project.
• Quality certified byAU-PANVAC
• Project supplied a lyophilizer for the production of
thermo-stable PPRvaccine
• Annual capacity is about 50million doses
• The procurement of a vaccine dispenser,bottling,
stoppering, capping and labeling machine is
underway
Key achievements: Result 2. Improved quantity and quality of vaccine
17. HEARDInception Workshop, ILRI, 29March
Key achievements: Result 3. Improved capacity to implement disease control progr
• Risk based vaccination against PPRhas
been carried out in a total of 103 woredas
in 6 regions
• 19,816,126 small ruminants were
vaccinated for PPRin the last threeyears
• 2223 veterinary staff from 6 regionstrained
on vaccine handling and management
18. HEARDInception Workshop, ILRI, 29March
Key achievements: Result 3. Improved capacity to implement disease control progr.
Vaccination coverage by year
2016 2017 2018
19. HEARDInception Workshop, ILRI, 29March
Some sero-monitoring andsero-surveillance results
Zone District No
collected
Results Sero-positivity
Positive Negative Doubtful
Four Gulina 200 180 18 2 90.0%
Two Berehale 200 177 16 7 88.5%
Total 400 357 34 9 89.3%
Sero-monitoring, ID-Vet PPR cELISA
East Harerghe Jarso 360 55 304 1 15.27%
Sero-surveillance, ID-Vet PPR cELISA
Jarso, samples collected from young stock 0.5 to 1.5 years, no disease, not vaccinated, no clustering
20. HEARDInception Workshop, ILRI, 29March
Keyachievements: Result 4: Improved animal disease control coordination
Management system established for PPR eradication with regular meetings
Management
• National PPR coordinator
• National PPR eradication strategy
• PPR eradication roadmap and 5 year national action plan
Meetings
• PPR National Steering Committee (4meetings)
• National PPR Coordination Committee (6meetings)
• Regional Coordination Meetings (twice a year)
• National Coordination Meetings (twice a year)
• Epi-Lab meetings (twice a year)
• Implementing Partners meetings (monthly)
• PMU meetings
21. HEARDInception Workshop, ILRI, 29March
Keyachievements: Result 4: Improved animal disease control coordination
Supported government to take part in regional and international meetings:
• Global meeting on ‘Partnering for a PPR free world” and ‘Stakeholders forum’
• Regional PPR Control and Eradication Coordination Committee (CECC),
• PPR Technical Experts Committee (TEC)
• OIE meetings (MoA, NVI and NAHDIC)
• PPR vaccine producers workshop (NVI)and
• Workshop for thermo-tolerant PPR vaccine production(NVI)
22. HEARDInception Workshop, ILRI, 29March
Improved capacity of the veterinary services
• Disease reporting (DOVAR/ADNIS)
• Conduct Participatory Disease Surveillance
• Conduct PPRDiagnoses in thefield
• Conduct vaccination (vehicles, cold chain,
vaccination equipment)
Improved capacity ofNVI
• to produce thermo-tolerant PPRvaccine.
3. Strategicimpacts
23. HEARDInception Workshop, ILRI, 29March
• Ownership of the project: project mentality vs national program
• Weak technical and administrative linkages between federal and
regional livestock services
• Variation in theimplementation capacity of regional bureaus /
BCOs
• Weak inter-regional state coordination to control and eradicate
disease and PPRin particular
• Weak coordination with neighboring countries to control and
eradicate PPR
• Uncontrolledlivestock mobility for different reasons (trade,
seasonal, drought, conflictetc.)
• Security issues in someregions
4. Challenges
24. HEARDInception Workshop, ILRI, 29March
• Focus on the National PPR Control and Eradication Program
• Strengthening theNational PPRCoordination Office
• Sharing lessons learnt from EU-SHAREPPRproject to new
projects and the national program
• Establish a direct chain of command for implementation of
the national programme
• Strengthen inter-regional coordination for efficient
implementation of the national strategy
• Strengthen coordination with neighboring countries oncross
border control of PPRspread
• More stringent control on livestock movementwithin and
across international border
5. Wayforward