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OIE CAPACITY BUILDING ACTIVITIES

Regional Information Seminar for Recently Appointed OIE Delegates

18 – 20 February 2014, Brussels, Belgium

Dr Mara GonzalezOIE Regional Activities Department

Capacity Building,

Specific Activities,

Projects and Programs 

PVSGap Analysis

PVS Evaluation

PVS PathwayFollow-Up Missions

Veterinary Legislation

Public / PrivatePartnerships

VeterinaryEducation

Laboratories

« Diagnosis » « Prescription »

« Treatment »

The OIE collaborates with governments, donors and other stakeholders

including Veterinary Services’ Strategic Priorities

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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

• Twining projects

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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

• Twining projects

To assist the OIE Delegate to exercise their rights and to comply with

responsibilities

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105 seminars/workshops organised up to 2013

21 seminars/workshops to be realised in 2014

Africa AmericasAsia & Pacific

EuropeMiddle East

Global WAHIS

Joint Africa- Middle East

Joint America- Middle East

Seminars/workshops

28 20 25 10 10 1 5 1

Capacity Building Programme for OIE Focal Points and New Delegates

Actions currently carried out by Actions currently carried out by the OIEthe OIE

Africa AmericasAsia & Pacific

EuropeMiddle East

Global WAHIS

Joint Africa- Middle East

Joint America- Middle East

Seminars/workshops

2 2 6 5 3 1 0 1

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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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• Capacity building programme for OIE Focal

Points and New Delegates

• Activities of Reference Laboratories (RL) and

Collaborating Centres (CC)

• Twining projects

RL: world reference Centres of expertise on designated pathogens or diseases

CC: world reference Centres of excellence on cross-cutting issues

OIE capacity building activities“The treatment ”

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Centres of expertise in animal diseases

OIE Reference Laboratories

• 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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• 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

OIE Collaborating Centres

Centres of excellence on cross-cutting issues

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• Capacity building programme for OIE Focal

Points and New Delegates

• Activities of Reference Laboratories and

Collaborating Centres

• OIE Twining projectsLaboratory twining Veterinary Education EstablishmentVeterinary Statutory Body

OIE capacity building activities“The treatment ”

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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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• 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’

Veterinary Statutory BodyTwining

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• 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)

Veterinary Statutory BodyTwining

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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’.

Veterinary Statutory BodyTwining

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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 under-represented, 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!