Role of FAO to Promote Health

Security Agenda

DPGH Monthly Meeting

Zelalem Tadesse (DVM, MSc, DLSHTM)

Swizz Embassy

Dar es Salaam, 3rd May 2017

Introduction

GHSA and FAO

FAO’s Programs to Advance GHSA

FA

O

SP1: Eliminate

Hunger, FI & MN

SP2: Make AGR, FRSTRY

& FISRY Productive & Sustainable

SP3: Reduce Rural

Poverty

SP4: Inclusive & Efficient AG & Food Systems

SP5: Increase Resilience of

LHs to Threats & Crises

Introduction

Intrd’n: SDGs

SP1

SP2

SP3SP4

SP5

• Guides FAO’s

support to host

Governments

• Outlines priority

areas for partnership

with Governments

Intrd’n: CPF

CPF

Evidence

– based

Policy

Productio

n &

Productivi

ty

Market

Access

Resilienc

e

Intrd’n: CPF Tanzania

FAO’s SPs

CPF

Youth AMR

EPT Aflatoxin

Projects

Intrd’n: Linkages…

• GHSA:

launched in February 2014

to advance a world safe and

secure from infectious

disease threats & endorsed

by G7

to strengthen the capacity

to prevent, detect, and

respond to infectious

diseases threats

acknowledges the essential

need for a multilateral and

multi-sectoral approach

FAO and GHSA

• ¾ emerging infectious

diseases in humans arise

from animal reservoirs

• to strengthen animal health

capacity to prevent, detect,

and respond to infectious

diseases threats –contributes

to GHSA

• contributes to safeguard

global health by controlling

infectious diseases at their

source

FAO and GHSA

• FAO fosters

collaboration among

sectors to address

infectious diseases

threats at the

animal-human-

environment

interface through

the OH approach

AH

Increase PRD &

PRDVTY

Enhance

PHImprove

Export Trade

FAO and GHSA

FAO’s Programs to Advance GHSA

• Currently coordinates

implementation of two

initiatives to contribute to

the GHSA

FAO’s component of

GHSA/EPT-2 (2016-2019)

AMR Fleming Fund Phase-2

(2017-2019)

• FAO’s

component

of GHSA/EPT-

2 supports

URT to

improve its

core

capacities

under 4 AP of

the GHSA

framework

Programs to Advance GHSA…

Prevent 1: Antimicrobial Resistance

Prevent 2: Zoonotic Disease

Prevent 3: Biosafety and Biosecurity

Prevent 4: Immunization

Detect 1: National Laboratory System

Detect 2 & 3: Real-Time Surveillance

Detect 4: Reporting

Detect 5: Workforce Development

Respond 1: Emergency Operations Centers

Respond 2: Linking Public Health with Law

Respond 3: Medical Countermeasures and Personnel Deployment

AP Indicator

Zoonotic

Diseases AP

P.4.1 – Surveillance systems in place for

PZDs

P.4.2 – Veterinary and Animal Workforce

P.4.3 – Mechanisms for responding to

zoonoses

BB AP P.6.2. – Biosafety and biosecurity training

and practices

National LS

AP

D.1.1 – Lab testing for detection of priority

diseases

D.1.2 – Specimen referral and transport

system

D.1.4 – Lab Quality System

WFD AP D.4.1 – Human Resources to implement IHR

Programs to Advance GHSA…

• supports to implement the food and agriculture component of a tripartite program entitled: “Supporting countries in

South and South-East Asia

and Sub-Saharan Africa to

develop and implement

national action plans to

combat antimicrobial

resistance using a OH

approach”

FFP2

Programs to Advance GHSA…

• Support/enable the

engagement of the food and

agriculture sector in the

development and

implementation of multi-

sectoral NAPs on AMR in

targeted countries

• Support implementation of

select components of the

FAO AP in close

collaboration with WHO and

OIE

Programs to Advance GHSA…

OP1: Multi-sectoral National Action Plans (NAPs) aligned with global recommendations and standards in place in targeted countries

OP2: Regulatory frameworks assessed and strengthened

OP3: Laboratory capacities andrelated infrastructures of the foodand agriculture sector arestrengthened

OP3: Laboratory capacities andrelated infrastructures of the foodand agriculture sector arestrengthened

Programs to Advance GHSA…

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