The document summarizes factors that influence decision-making for foot-and-mouth disease control in Kenya. Key informant interviews revealed inconsistent prioritization of animal disease control, separate lines of strategic guidance and accountability/budgeting, and private veterinarians involved in disease reporting and vaccination outside of official guidance and accountability. There are opportunities to provide more relevant disease data to farmers and veterinarians and ensure information flows in both directions. Strengthening FMD control could include reinforcing programmatic strengths through a participatory national strategy, integrated public-private partnerships, and accountability mechanisms that promote two-way communication.

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Polly Compston
Royal Veterinary College / UK
Factors influencing decision-
making for foot-and-mouth
disease control in Kenya

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Flow of information Who provides, and receives, information about disease outbreaks?
Who provides leadership and lays out objectives?
Who is held responsible, and who holds them responsible?
Who provides a budget for disease control?
• Understanding how decisions about disease control are made is important in
order to build recommendations to strengthen disease control
• The following factors will affect decision-making:
Who is involved in the movement and delivery of vaccines?
Strategic guidance
Accountability
Financial flows
Vaccination

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Inconsistent prioritisation of
animal disease control
Lines of strategic guidance
reported as separate from
accountability and budgeting
Private veterinarians involved in
disease-reporting and vaccination
Private sector separate from
official lines of guidance and
accountability
Opportunities to provide relevant
disease data to farmers and
primary veterinarians
Information about disease moved
one-way, away from farmers
Key informant interviews with stakeholders involved in FMD control revealed:

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Strengthened
FMD control
Reinforce identified
programmatic
strengths in
participatory
development of
national strategy
Integrated
mechanisms for
public-private-
partnerships
Strategies that
promote two-way
accountability
mechanisms
Conclusions

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