OIE CAPACITY BUILDING
ACTIVITIES
Regional Information Seminar for Recently Appointed OIE
Delegates
18 – 20 February 2014, Brussels, Belgium
Dr Mara Gonzalez
OIE Regional Activities Department
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« Treatment »
Capacity Building,
Specific Activities,
Projects and Programs
Veterinary
Legislation
« Diagnosis »
« Prescription »
PVS
Evaluation
PVS
Gap Analysis
including
Veterinary Services’
Strategic Priorities
Public / Private
Partnerships
Veterinary
Education
Laboratories
The OIE collaborates with governments,
donors and other stakeholders
PVS Pathway
Follow-Up
Missions
OIE capacity building activities
“The treatment ”
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Capacity building programme for OIE
Focal Points and New Delegates
•
Activities of Reference Laboratories
and Collaborating Centres
•
Twining projects
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OIE capacity building activities
“The treatment ”
•
Capacity building programme for OIE Focal
Points and New Delegates
To assist the OIE Delegate to exercise their
rights and to comply with responsibilities
•
Activities of Reference Laboratories and
Collaborating Centres
•
Twining projects
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Actions currently carried out by the
OIE for OIE Focal Points
Capacity Building Programme
and New Delegates
105 seminars/workshops organised up to 2013
Seminars/
workshops
Africa
Americas
Asia &
Pacific
Europe
Middle
East
Global
WAHIS
Joint
AfricaMiddle
East
Joint
AmericaMiddle
East
28
20
25
10
10
1
5
1
Joint
AmericaMiddle
East
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21 seminars/workshops to be realised in 2014
Seminars/
workshops
Africa
Americas
Asia &
Pacific
Europe
Middle
East
Global
WAHIS
Joint
AfricaMiddle
East
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2
6
5
3
1
0
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Forthcoming events in the region
OIE regional seminar for New Delegates
• OIE regional seminar for New Delegates Belgium, 18-20
February 2014
OIE regional seminars for national Focal Points
• OIE regional seminar for National Focal Points on
Wildlife  Russia, 28-30 April 2014
• OIE regional seminar for National Focal Points on
Communication  Estonia, 1-3 July 2014
• OIE regional seminar for National Focal Points on
animal disease notification (WAHIS)  Moldavia (tbc),
13-17 October 2014
• OIE regional seminar for National Focal Points on
Veterinary Products  FYROM, 17-19 November 2014
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OIE capacity building activities
“The treatment ”
•
Capacity building programme for OIE Focal
Points and New Delegates
•
Activities of Reference Laboratories (RL) and
Collaborating Centres (CC)
 RL: world reference Centres of expertise on
designated pathogens or diseases
 CC: world reference Centres of excellence on
cross-cutting issues
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Twining projects
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OIE Reference Laboratories
Centres of expertise in animal diseases
• Develop, conduct and validate diagnostic
tests
• Store and distribute reference reagents
• Organise inter-laboratory proficiency testing
• Coordinate technical and scientific studies
• Provide technical and scientific training
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OIE Collaborating Centres
Centres of excellence on cross-cutting issues
• Help to develop procedures for updating
and promoting international standards and
guidelines on animal health and welfare
• Coordinate scientific studies
• Organise training workshops
• Organise and host technical meetings in
collaboration with the OIE
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OIE capacity building activities
“The treatment ”
•
Capacity building programme for OIE Focal
Points and New Delegates
•
Activities of Reference Laboratories and
Collaborating Centres
•
OIE Twining projects
Laboratory twining
Veterinary Education Establishment
Veterinary Statutory Body
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Laboratory Twining
• facilitate capacity building and networking
• build expertise for the most important
animal diseases and zoonoses in priority
regions
• provide a more balanced north-south
distribution of advanced expertise,
allowing more countries to access high
quality diagnostic testing and technical
knowledge
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Laboratory Twining
• formulate science-based animal health
control strategies and support the
standard setting process of the OIE.
• links an existing OIE Reference
Laboratory with a selected candidate
laboratory.
• Knowledge and skills are exchanged
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Veterinary Statutory Body
Twining
• VSBs ensure the control of veterinarians and
veterinary para-professionnals
• The strengthening of the VSBs is strategically
important for improving the implementation of
OIE international standards
• Capacity building activity for developing and in
transition countries
• Consists of a transfer of knowledge, training and
expertise from a ‘Parent VSB’ to a ‘Candidate
VSB’
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Veterinary Statutory Body
Twining
• Flexible and adaptable approach, to take into
account the diversity of situations:
• a country with no VSB and no legislation for
the establishment of such VSB
• ‘advanced’ VSB but need to develop a new
function (such as involvement in veterinary
education)
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Veterinary Statutory Body
Twining
Objectives
- To improve compliance with OIE standards on the
quality of VS
- To improve:
- Licensing / registration of veterinarians and veterinary
para-professionals
- Deontology in the veterinary profession
- Quality of veterinary education
- It is expected that the ‘candidate’ VSB can become a
‘parent’ VSB and/or ‘regional referent’.
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Veterinary Education Twining
• The OIE and the international community recognise
the crucial role of veterinarians throughout national
animal health systems/Veterinary Services.
• Furthermore, they recognise the need to ensure an
optimal level of fundamental skills to overcome
problems related to the surveillance and control of
OIE-listed diseases.
• Twinning’ has been adopted by the OIE as a
method for improving institutional capacity and
expertise in developing and in-transition countries.
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Veterinary Education Twining
• Based on:
o OIE Guidelines on Veterinary Education Core Curriculum
o OIE recommendations on the Competencies of graduating
veterinarians (‘Day 1 graduates’)
o the lessons learned from the OIE Veterinary Laboratory
Twinning Programme.
• Involves the creation and supporting a link that facilitates
the exchange of knowledge, ideas and experience
between two Veterinary Education Establishments.
• Aims to create more centres of excellence for veterinary
education in geographic areas that are currently underrepresented, to achieve a better balance in the global
distribution of well-educated veterinarians.
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Veterinary Education Twining
• Each twinning project is a partnership between one or
more recognised and preferably accredited Veterinary
Education Establishments and a Candidate Veterinary
Education Establishment. The first will provide technical
assistance, guidance and training.
• The Candidate Establishment may wish at a later stage
to eventually achieve accreditation under an existing,
well-established accreditation body.
• Objectives for each twinning project are jointly agreed by
the OIE and the Directors/Deans of the participants (i.e.
the Parent and Candidate Establishments) and endorsed
by the National Delegates to the OIE of the countries
concerned.
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Veterinary Education Twining
• Twinning aims to upgrade veterinary education,
especially in relation to the needs of national Veterinary
Services, to meet satisfactorily the international
standards established by the OIE.
• Twinning is part of the wider OIE initiative to improve the
capacity of Veterinary Services in developing countries;
it therefore has synergy with the OIE PVS Pathway and
the complementary OIE Laboratory Twinning
Programme.
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Thank you for your attention!
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