GRF One Health Summit 2012, Davos: Presentation by Quynh Ba Le, University of Calgary, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Canada

1. GRF Global Risk Summit 2012
WATER POLICIES: HEALTH IMPLICATIONS TO
SMALL SCALE FARMERS AND THEIR ANIMALS
IN VIETNAM
Davos, February 22nd 2012
LE, Quynh Ba1,4, HALL, David Clement2,4, CORK, Susan Catherine3
1 University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. E-mail: qble@ucalgary.ca
2 University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. E-mail: dchall@ucalgary.ca
3 University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. E-mail: sccork@ucalgary.ca
4 Veterinarians without Borders, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

2. Outlines
 Objective
 Method
 Results & Discussions
 Recommendations
 Conclusion

3. Objective
• To critically review Vietnam’s national level
water related policies:
– National Rural Clean Water Supply &
Sanitation Strategy (NRCWSS 2020 Strategy).
– Impact on human, animal & environmental
health at the level of small scale farmers.

4. Method
• Review literatures and other available
information:
– Published national water related research,
and evaluation reports on rural clean water
and sanitation Vietnam.
– Period of 2000 – 2011.

5. Results & discussions
Bill/Resolution Strategy/Plan Programs
The Law on water National Water National Targeted
resources(20/Aug/199 Resources Strategy Program on Rural
8) Towards the Year 2020 Clean Water and
Sanitation 2006 -
Decree 117/2007 National Rural Clean 2010
(Water Supply) Water Supply and
Sanitation Strategy The National Targeted
Decree 88/2007 up to year 2020 Program on Building
(Sanitation) New Rural Areas for
Strategic Plan for the period of 2010 –
Circulars on water tariff National Water 2020
Resources Council
P135 II - Targeted
Poverty Programs in
Vietnam

6. Results & discussions
• Water service & water management impact
– small scale farmers, sustainable agricultural
activities.
• Relative water supply decline constrains
– productive crop yields and healthy livestock
production.
• Various government agencies are
– not well defined roles & responsibilities.

7. Results & discussions
• Limited participation of grassroots stakeholders:
– Farmers, veterinarians working in the community, and
public health workers.
• Veterinary service is neither part the solutions
nor the approach:
– Livestock is part of the main development goal.
• Linkages between water & livestock production:
– Not explicitly addressed.

8. One Health added-value
 Maximize the
• Wide range of
capacity & contribution.
factors
• Human, animal,&  Enhance the effective
environmental & safe utilization of
health interface limited water resource.
• Food safety &  Reduce waterborne
security diseases among small
• Agriculture scale farmers & their
animals.

9. Recommendations
• Needs updating to address the water &
small scale livestock production issues
explicitly.
• Use more participatory bottom up
approach & take into consideration the
local context.

10. Recommendations
• Both vertical and horizontal collaboration
approaches:
– Within water related policies connectedness:
• Water Service & Water Management
– Water policies to be built on other agricultural
policies:
• Crop, Livestock or Land

11. Conclusion
• NRCWSS 2020 Strategy is one of the
most important long-term water related
policies.
• Has potential implications to small scale
livestock production.
• Update & revise the approach & solutions
with respect to livestock production, One
Health, be connected with other policies.

12. Acknowledgment
• Department of Ecosystem &
Public Health (UCVM)
– Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,
University of Calgary, Canada
http://vet.ucalgary.ca/
• Building Ecohealth Capacity in
Asia (BECA Project),
– Veterinarians Without Borders
(VWB/VSF), Canada
– Funded by IDRC & AusAID
http://beca.spruz.com/
http://vwb-vsf.ca

13. Thank you very much for your attention!
Photo: David Hall