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Aim of the Seminar
The Global FMD Control Strategy
and the recommendations of the
FMD Bangkok Conference
Joseph Domenech
Seminar on FMD Progressive Control Pathway
Dubai-UAE 8 April 2013
Aim of the Seminar
- Main objective of the meeting:
To get every country ready to
prepare a mid term national control
project/programme and present it
to their government and donors.
- Overall goal:
To ensure a proper national
commitment in order to strengthen
the fight against FMD and improve
the country and regional situations
During the morning session each
country will have presented
 Their situation, PCP stage, main
challenges (surveillance, animal
movements, vaccination…)
 Their ongoing control programmes
 Their possibility and way forward
to prepare a FMD control project
to be presented by the
government to donors
 Their possibility to prepare a
dossier to OIE for endorsement of
a national control programme
(PCP stage 3) or disease
recognition (PCP stage 4)
 Their expected support from
regional and international
organisations
During the morning session the
participants will also have listen
 A summary of the Global FMD
Control Stategy
 The OIE-FAO Middle East Regional
FMD Control Strategy presented in
Dubai (26th April 2012) and in
Bangkok (27-29th June 2012)
 The FAO Middle East FMD Control
Strategy presented in Cairo 4-5
December 2012
Therefore the participants will discuss,
during the afternoon round table, the
possibility to prepare a national FMD
control project to be presented to the
government and to donors which will
consider:
a) Major components of the strategy
such as training, surveillance,
laboratory diagnostic, socio
economic studies, communication...
b) Strenghthening of the Veterinary
Services and legislation
c) Regional dimensions: buffer zones
in certain countries, control of
regional animal movements, regional
coordination and monitoring…
See the regional strategies already
defined
d) International dimensions: see the
Global FMD Control Strategy
(international coherence, support and
monitoring…)
These FMD control project should:
- Define the mid to long term project
lengh: 3, 5, 10 years
- Define the objectives:
The ones already presented in
previous regional meetings (see
slides below)
Or other revised objectives (in line
with the Global FMD Control
Strategy)
Fifth Steering Committee meeting
April 26th 2012, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Countries
Jordan
Oman
Kuwait
Lebanon
PAT
Syria
Iraq
KSA
Level 0
Level 1
Level 2
Nation
al
Zone
UAE
Qatar
Level 3
Level 4
Yemen
Level 5
Other
No response
Bahrain
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
The FMD control project should:
- Follow an harmonized formate:
To be discussed
« logical framework » as a possible
model?
Towards Global Control
and Eradication of FMD
Major pillars of the FMD
Control Strategy
- The FMD Control Strategy combines and integrates
the tools and instruments of FAO and OIE:
 FMD Progressive Control Pathway (PCP) in a
regional context (jointly developed roadmaps)
 Performance of Veterinary Services Pathway
(PVS), with FMD-related critical competencies
worked out per PCP stage
GF-TADs for governance, including acceptance of PCP
Stage claimed by countries
OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code, with official
endorsement of a country FMD control program
in PCP stage 3 or beyond
OIE-recognized FMD-free status
- The FMD Control Strategy intends to strengthen
the vital disease control supporting functions:
 Laboratories: national, regional,
international, coordinating global lab and
Networks; provision of additional expert staff
 Epidemiology (and economics): national
teams, regional, international
centers/Collaborative Centers, Networks;
additional expert staff
 Vaccines: availability, Quality Assurance;
Quality Test Centers, regional vaccine banks;
correct use, vaccination planning
- The FMD Control Strategy supports in the more
advanced FMD-PCP control stages:
 Emergency responses
 Identification of farms and animals
 Biosecurity
 Public/private partnerships
- The FMD control Strategy advocates for
continued research, in particular in the field of
diagnostics, strain characterization, vaccines,
vaccine quality control and epidemiology
Tools
OIE: Norms
new article in
the Terr. Code
WAHIS
WAHID
The Progressive
Control Pathway for
Foot and Mouth
Disease (PCP-FMD)
Laboratories
Vaccines
Action plan
Action plan was worked out in the form of typical
activities
At country level – for each of the PCP stages
and for each of the Strategy components
At regional level (for stages 1 - 5)
At global level (for stages 1 – 5)
The Global FMD Control Strategy and supporting
documents are available on the websites
www.FMDconference2012
http://www.oie.int
From concept to practice
Bangkok was not a pledging conference, but
over 100 countries, regional organizations,
development partners and stakeholders
supported the launch of the FAO/OIE Global FMD
Control Strategy
Typical activities indicated in the Strategy per
PCP stage and for the different levels (country,
regional, global) need to be embedded in concrete
programmes/projects that can be used for fund
raising
This implies new or intensified FMD control
programmes at the national level, but in a regional
context, in particular in virus pool regions 3, 4, 5
and 6
To convince countries to step up their FMD control
activities:
Regional meetings in some regions or subregions: to develop program proposals with costeffective combinations of activities, for instance
with other regional priority TAD programmes
 The Global GF-TADs SC may call upon the
Regional SC’s and through them on the relevant
regional technical and economical organisations
 OIE and FAO may call upon their experts in their
Regional and Sub Regional Offices, ECTAD units
and RAHCs
Presentation of the
Global FMD Control Strategy
at the Joint FAO/OIE Global Conference
on the Control of FMD
Bangkok, Thailand, 27-29 June 2012
- The agenda, presentations and
recommendations are published on the
FAO and OIE websites
- 750 participants, including Ministers of
key countries, CVOs and other decision
makers, experts, regional and
international organisations, donor
agencies, private sector
- The agenda included a technical part
(“State of the art”) and a “Donor
consensus support session” for donors,
Reg Org. and individual countries
- The participants supported the Global
FMD Control Strategy
39 Recommendations
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countries: 12
regional and global technical partners: 7
OIE and FAO (through the GF-TADs): 15
development partners: 4
-Date and venue of the third Global
Conference for the control of FMD:
In Africa, date to be confirmed.
To countries:
- FMD be recognized as a high priority disease
- The joint FAO/OIE Global FMD Control Strategy to be
strongly supported under the GF-TADs mechanism
- Countries that are not FMD-free, implement a national FMD
control program using the FMD-PCP as the preferred tool
- Countries use the OIE-officially endorsed FMD Control
Programmes once in Stage 3 of the PCP and continue by
entering the official OIE recognition pathway for FMD-free
status
- Countries develop the veterinary services capacity using
the OIE PVS Pathway
- Countries consider the good governance of veterinary
services, based on an appropriate animal health legislation,
veterinary education and statutory bodies
To countries:
- Improve the surveillance, reporting and official
notification using the OIE World Animal Health
Information System (WAHIS/WAHID).
- Rumor tracking at global level using, when appropriate,
the FAO-OIE-WHO GLEWS (Global Early Warning System)
- Countries make use of the existing articles of the OIE
Terrestrial Animal Health Code
To regional and global technical partners:
- The strengthening of the laboratory and epidemiology
expertise and the networks be supported;
- Global investment for reference laboratories for vaccine
matching studies and services. Countries are encouraged to
submit field virus strains
- Regional antigen or vaccine banks be established
- Independent quality control centers be established
- Applied research should be conducted
- Regular GF-TADs regional and global Steering Committee
meetings as well as regional roadmaps meetings be
organized;
To OIE and FAO (through the GF-TADs):
- The FAO establish a robust FAO/OIE FMD Secretariat to support the
FAO-OIE GF-TADs FMD Working Group;
- FAO and OIE explore fund raising options, based on the conclusions
of the Bangkok conference;
- Assist national Veterinary Services to advocate for the political and
other stakeholders support
- Assist countries to assemble evidence to demonstrate impacts of
early control gains
- A monitoring system for the Global Strategy implementation be put
in place, under the responsibility of the Global GF-TADs Steering
Committee
- The FMD portfolio of activities (national budget and external
support) be established every 2 years
- The provisional GF-TADs FMD acceptance process for the
evaluation of country FMD-PCP stages be finalized;
- The FAO-OIE CMC-AH and FAO-OIE-WHO GLEWS be made
sustainable;
To OIE and FAO (through the GF-TADs) (cont.):
- Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright, UK, be considered as
the Global Coordinating Reference Laboratory for FMD and
support for reference laboratory services be increased as
well as for diagnosis laboratories at national and regional
levels , including the use of twinning programmes;
- International agencies pursue dialogue with relevant
agencies to develop agreements that would facilitate
shipping of FMD samples
- OIE continue to review and update the standards for FMD
in the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code and Manual
To development partners
- The international community of development partners
considers funding the Global Strategy
- The international community of development partners
devotes special attention to (i) strengthening Veterinary
Services (ii) initiate and sustain FMD control programmes in
the least developed countries (iii) regional and global
activities
- At regional and global level, priority activities include
support to: (i) surveillance and diagnostic laboratories (ii)
development of FMD regional roadmaps (iii) reinforced FAOOIE GF-TADs FMD Working Group;
- Sub-regional training workshops be supported to draft
country disease control plans covering a list of 3 to 5
regional/national priority diseases (including FMD). When
finalized, the plans should then be presented using, when
appropriate, the GF-TADs framework.
Thank you for
your
attention
Annex
Full text of the
39 Recommendations
To countries:
FMD be recognized as a high priority disease that should be combatted synchronously on a global scale for the benefit of all
countries;
FMD global control be considered as possible with existing means and methods;
The joint FAO/OIE Global FMD Control Strategy and Implementing Plan – with the 3 Components – be strongly supported as the
framework to engage into or continue FMD (and other animal diseases) control worldwide, under the GF-TADs mechanism when
accepted by countries;
All countries that are not FMD-free, develop and implement a national FMD control program using the objectives, guidance and
tools of the global FMD Control Strategy with the FMD-PCP as the preferred tool when appropriate for FMD-endemic countries to
design and implement the strategy and monitor progress over time;
Countries use the possibility of OIE-officially endorsed FMD Control Programmes once in Stage 3 of the PCP as a recognition of
the effective management of FMD control in the country and continue by entering the official OIE recognition pathway for FMDfree status whenever feasible (based on zoning or the country as a whole);
The national FMD control programmes be based on robust animal health systems supported by appropriate legislation and
effective public-private partnerships, and notably encourage the role of the private sector and of local communities, as key actors
in FMD and other animal disease prevention and control measures;
Countries develop the veterinary services capacity using the OIE PVS Pathway with improved FMD control through applying when
appropriate the FMD-PCP (to create the required enabling environment), so as to ensure the sustainability of FMD (and other
animal diseases) control measures put in place and to improve the economic and social resilience to major animal health events;
Countries consider the good governance of veterinary services, based on an appropriate animal health legislation, veterinary
education and statutory bodies, as a pre-requisite to reach the higher FMD-PCP stages (Stage 3 and beyond);
To countries:
Countries improve the surveillance, reporting and official notification of FMD (and other animal diseases) – both in domestic and
wildlife species – including immediate alert, follow-up and final reports at national and global level using the OIE World Animal
Health Information System (WAHIS/WAHID).
Rumor tracking is also encouraged at global level using, when appropriate, the FAO-OIE-WHO GLEWS (Global Early Warning
System) reporting system as well as other regional information systems compatible with global systems.
Countries make use of the existing articles of the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code to combine these with the FMD-PCP
approach in the appropriate stages, in particular zoning, compartmentalization, containment and commodity-based trade and
actively participate in the FMD standard setting process through their national OIE Delegate;
The risk of infection from African buffalo must be considered when developing national FMD control programs. There is little
evidence that other wild ungulates play a role in the maintenance of FMD and so efforts to control FMD must be regionally and
locally appropriate and are best targeted at reducing or preventing the disease in domestic animals including feral animals, thus
most effectively protecting both livestock and wildlife, as well as human livelihoods.
To regional and global technical partners:
The strengthening of the laboratory and epidemiology expertise and the networks, as foreseen by the Global FMD Control Strategy,
be supported;
The international community, including the countries themselves, supports the Global FMD Control Strategy and in particular fund
the regional support units for progressive control of FMD in each virus pool, to give the technical and other guidance required to
achieve PCP progress. Within each virus pool control strategies will have to be developed to suit the epidemiology of FMD,
socioeconomic status and resources available;
There should be global investment in ensuring reference laboratories are equipped to perform the likely increased load for vaccine
matching studies and services. Countries are encouraged to submit field virus strains for vaccine matching and to monitor the
spread and emergence of new viruses;
Regional antigen or vaccine banks be established when and where appropriate using existing models (i.e. FAO APHCA or OIE for
Asia);
Where large scale vaccination programs are launched and a number of vaccine suppliers are involved, independent quality control
centers be established;
Applied research should be conducted to improve vaccines, diagnostics and the understanding of infection and transmission
mechanisms, to develop better spread models and determine the presence of virus in products destined for commodity trade;
Regular GF-TADs regional and global Steering Committee meetings as well as regional roadmaps meetings be organized;
To OIE and FAO (through the GF-TADs):
The FAO establish a robust FAO/OIE FMD Secretariat to support the FAO-OIE GF-TADs FMD Working Group;
FAO and OIE explore fund raising options, based on the conclusions of the Bangkok conference;
To enhance success of technical interventions FAO and OIE develop the necessary understanding of livelihood strategies, and the
socio-economic, livestock sector and value chain factors that are integral to success of any concerted national and regional FMD
control programs;
For FMD control programs, key beneficiaries of the program, including farmers, farmer associations and traders be consulted at all
stages of design and implementation;
Based on this understanding, FAO and OIE assist national Veterinary Services to advocate for the political and other stakeholders
support for appropriate FMD control activities;
OIE and FAO assist countries to assemble evidence to demonstrate impacts of early control gains, so as to further secure political
and other stakeholder support for FMD control;
A monitoring system for the Global Strategy implementation be put in place, under the responsibility of the Global GF-TADs Steering
Committee; the GF-TADs FMD WG to report on an annual basis on the global and regional progress, including where appropriate
the country FMD PCP stages from regional FMD roadmaps; this information to be made available in the GF-TADs Steering
Committee and the Annual Assembly of OIE Delegates;
The Global Strategy be reviewed regularly and if needed updated on the basis of this monitoring work;
The FMD portfolio of activities (national budget and external support) be established every 2 years by the GF-TADs FMD WG, to
best support the implementation of the Global Strategy;
The provisional GF-TADs FMD acceptance process, for the external evaluation of the relevant country FMD-PCP stages, be
finalized;
The FAO-OIE CMC-AH and FAO-OIE-WHO GLEWS be made sustainable and be continually improved, to best serve the countries;
To OIE and FAO (through the GF-TADs) (cont.):
Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright, UK, be considered as the Global Coordinating Reference Laboratory for FMD, for the first
phase of the Global Strategy. Support for reference laboratory services should be increased. Capacity building of FMD diagnosis
at national and regional level be promoted through the network of FMD reference laboratories. Establishment of a reference
laboratory should be promoted for each of the virus pool regions. Twinning programmes should be applied to speed up
achievement of reference status for regional or salient national laboratories;
The Global Strategy be considered as the preferred framework to develop new animal disease global control programmes under
the GF-TADs mechanism and if relevant dedicated specific GF-TADs WG be set up for this purpose;
International agencies pursue dialogue with IATA/ICAO and other relevant agencies such as UNCTAD and WCO, to develop
agreements that would facilitate shipping of FMD samples to reference laboratories or alternative approaches to shipping virus
material safely be explored;
OIE continue to review and update the standards for FMD in the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code and Manual to reflect the
latest technical advances and in doing so to ensure that the standards of FMD for international trade purposes are only applicable
to those domestic and wildlife ruminants that have been scientifically proven to be of epidemiological significance.
To development partners
The international community of development partners considers funding the Global Strategy, on the bases of
the budget presented during the Global conference;
The international community of development partners devotes special attention to (i) strengthening Veterinary
Services using OIE standards and guidelines, (ii) initiate and sustain FMD control programmes in the least
developed countries – with particular emphasis on Africa, Asia, Middle East, Andean Region and Eastern
Europe, (iii) regional and global activities to ensure the proper awareness, monitoring, resources mobilization
and commitment, coordination and harmonization;
At regional and global level, priority activities include support to: (i) surveillance and diagnostic laboratories
including twinning programmes at all levels; (ii) development of FMD regional roadmaps where appropriate (iii)
reinforced FAO-OIE GF-TADs FMD Working Group to stimulate and monitor and report on the implementation
of the Global Strategy;
Sub-regional training workshops be supported under agreed mechanisms with international agencies (FAO,
OIE) and partners, including relevant regional organizations, to draft country disease control plans based on
the results of the OIE PVS Gap Analysis. These plans covering a list of 3 to 5 regional/national priority
diseases (including FMD) - as proposed by the GF-TADs Regional Steering Committees - would be prepared
first at national level respecting donors requirements and, when possible, be discussed and analysed with
FAO/OIE animal health and socio-economist experts. When finalised, the plans should then be presented
using, when appropriate, the GF-TADs framework.
The third Global Conference for the control of FMD be held in Africa (date and venue to be confirmed).