| dc.description.abstract | The activities of the PACE Programme's Common Services and Co-ordination Units for the 12
months beginning on 1 June 2001 are described in this document.
The combined activities of the various teams in the Common Services and Co-ordination Units
will produce the six results required to achieve the purpose of the year's work, namely that
"Animal resource keepers, traders and national level professionals cooperate to combat
major animal diseases, within the context of Pan-African collaboration that is co-ordinated
and facilitated by OAU/IBAR."
Essentially, the PACE Programme's Common Services and Co-ordination Units will serve the
32 PACE member countries that constitute its clients.
The PACE Programme Co-ordination Unit in Nairobi (that also co-ordinates the activities
in 10 eastern African countries) and the Regional Co-ordination Unit in Bamako (that covers
22 countries in West/Central Africa) will be responsible for the co-ordination of the Common
Services and national PACE components. In addition, the PCU has specific responsibilities for
international liaison, the development of a training programme and the commissioning of a
research programme on applied aspects of CBPP and rinderpest through the appropriate world
reference centres.
This year, for the first time, the PACE Programme will fund the 01E's Regional
Representative for Africa, who will be based in Bamako. He will work closely with the
PACE staff and will ensure that supportive measures are in place initially in those countries
that are at high risk of rinderpest resurgence. This will ensure that the PACE Emergency fund
could be swiftly mobilised, if necessary. In support of this fund, PACE will establish a
rinderpest vaccine bank and will re-activate the PANVAC vaccine quality assurance activities
in Dakar.
The PACE Epidemiology Unit (PEU) is the heart of the PACE Programme. Its activities
will contribute mainly to the facilitation of the establishment of a Pan-African network for
epidemio-surveillance; the verification of the eradication of rinderpest; and, the elaboration of
strategies for participatory control of other priority epizootics. The IAEA will second an
expert in veterinary laboratory diagnostics who will lead the important activity of strengthening
the region's diagnostic capacity. The PEU will co-ordinate the surveillance of rinderpest in
domestic and wild animal populations in PACE countries and will ensure that countries follow
procedures that are compatible with the requirements of the OIE pathway for the declaration
of freedom from rinderpest. PACE aims to extend epidemio-surveillance to other priority
epizootics on a sustainable basis. To this end, the PEU will undertake a series of activities," in
close collaboration with the PACE Economics Unit, to develop appropriate strategy proposals
for, initially, CBPP. Other efforts will focus on collecting information on African swine fever
and Rift Valley fever in order to support strategy development in affected countries and subregions. | |
