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The OIE PVS Evolution:
a critical pathway towards
National Action Plan implementation
Dr Susan Corning
Senior Advisor to the Deputy Director General
5th GHSA Ministerial Meeting 6 - 8 November 2018
Bali, Indonesia
Role of OIE PVS Pathway in assisting countries’ NAP implementation
1. Countries’ Veterinary Services critically important to public health security
2. PVS Pathway dynamic to evaluation, planning, and support of NAP implementation
3. Evolution of PVS Pathway aligns with the OIE Strategic Plan and GHSA 2024 strategy.
1.
National Veterinary Services are inherently linked to public health
in a multitude of facets:
human health security is at risk if VS do not have the capacity (and resources) to meeting international standards
2.
• PVS Pathway not only evaluates VS capacity – it also assists
countries in analysing the cost of addressing identified gaps in their capacity.
• This in turn provides a clear input for strategic planning and budget planning.
• And the OIE (and others) can then provide target support for implementation
Led by the country, facilitated by OIE
To confirm country’s national livestock and VS priorities
Sets Critical Competency targets
To determine activities to be carried out to achieve the expected results
Develop an indicative costing of the human and physical resources required for implementation of activities defined
To support the preparation of national investment programmes (5-year timeframe)
Now offering further strategic planning workshop incorporating Gap findings into a planning template for country use
PVS Gap Analysis & Strategic Planning
Vet Legislation Support Program
Identification & Agreement stages,
Code Chap 3.4.
Sustainable Laboratories Mission: identify the resources
required for a sustainable, efficient and viable national veterinary
laboratory network. 13/17 missions undertaken, Apr17
Vet Laboratory, Vet Education Twinning Programmes: Builds
lab/educational/VSB expertise through exchanges between
sponsor (developed country) and candidate (developing country)
establishments to improve veterinary technical capacity globally.
Vet and Veterinary Paraprofessional Education – OIE “Day
One” Competencies and Model Curricula developed for both.
OIE Focal Points Training – across 8 specialist areas (disease
notification, vet drugs, communications, aquatic animals,
laboratories, animal welfare, wildlife and food safety). Currently
being revised.
Other OIE Targeted Support
3.
Evolution of PVS Pathway aligns with the
OIE Strategic Plan and GHSA 2024 strategic goals
• One objective of the OIE Strategic Plan is the development of National Veterinary
Services’ capacity, notably through its PVS Pathway. • OIE will also continue to provide PVS expertise to JEE missions and to coordinate with
WHO in National Bridging Workshops - essential to identify shared gaps (human-animal health) to address in NAPs.
• New PVS orientation training workshops in Africa have not only resulted in an increased
in mission requests from countries, but will create regional specialist networks, expanding both geographical reach and the PVS expert pool to assist countries (similar training is scheduled for South and South East Asia in 2019, funded by new support from the Australian Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security).
• Newly-finalised 7th edition of the PVS Tool has enhanced references to contemporary
priorities in National Veterinary Services (eg health security, lab biosecurity/biosafety, bio-threats, epidemiological skills, standards implementation), and incorporates two new Critical Competencies- Veterinary Clinical Services and AMR.
The OIE Strategic Plan aligns with, and adds value to, specific aims of the GHSA 2024 Strategy:
• To support of national adherence to international human and animal health standards
• To collaboratively identify and address gaps and priorities in
countries’ health security
The OIE PVS Pathway not only helps NAP implementation, but it plays a long-term role in maintenance of national health security
….. the OIE PVS Pathway offers targeted support for not only the implementation of National Action Plans, but it also offers a continuous cycle of follow-up evaluations and sustained support to ensure that national capacity to achieve the health security is maintained, and global health always remains protected.
