The project will contribute to safer food produced in third countries and/or exported to EU by ensuring that officials involved in animal disease control in countries trading with the EU are properly informed and trained to develop efficient strategies for animal disease control and in particular HPAI. To this end, the implementing consortium will ensure the project delivers two main outputs:
Four three-day workshops
Thirteen sustained training and technical assistance missions
The workshops are aimed at providing laboratory training in state-of-the-art virological and serological methods of diagnosis and other suitable techniques (at an appropriate level of sophistication) so that participants are in a position to fully apply the techniques in their home countries.
The sustained training and technical assistance missions aim to provide the competent authorities and veterinary workers in beneficiary countries with tools to develop national and regional measures for the management of HPAI control, and other animal disease control including Foot and Mouth.
These outputs are also expected to strengthen the existing relationships/partnerships and collaboration networks/mechanisms among national and regional food safety authorities, academic spheres, relevant public or private bodies, industry sectors and stakeholders.
In order to ensure excellence in delivering those outputs, the consortium will give special attention to the following key activities:
Needs assessment through tailored questionnaires and phone contacts. In order to ensure that training activities and beneficiaries are best suited to country needs and are harmonised with other ongoing animal disease control related projects and training activities, the consortium will consult with national and international organisations operating in each target country.
Expert selection applying strict selection criteria and using the consortium’s established networks.
Design of the workshops and sustained training missions taking into account lessons learnt from previous training on HPAI and based on the needs assessment results.
Information packs that provide technical documentation for the workshop and training, and coordinates practicalities.
Monitoring & evaluation through the use of the project dedicated Gantt chart, Logical Framework and evaluation tools such as tailored post-training questionnaires to be completed by trainees.
Coordination with animal disease control stakeholders at national, regional and international levels through regular contacts and meetings
Communication through regular reports, newsletters, press releases and websites
Visibility of EC and DG SANCO’s roles and activities on all relevant materials and wide media coverage
