CRP 3.7

Component 1.1: Animal Health

Update on animal health component 1.1Phil Toye (ILRI)

Planning Meeting

ILRI Nairobi

27-29 September 2011

CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish

General Implementation Strategy

• Focus on vaccines, diagnostics and biosecurity protocols for infectious diseases

• Two interdependent activities

1. VC assessment (Th. 2)

• infectious disease constraints

• policy & institutional constraints

2. Current projects (generic platforms)

Overall Outcomes

• Development of better systems to deliver existing and forthcoming vaccines

• Development of better vaccines and diagnostics targeted on priority diseases in selected value chains

• Development of appropriate biosecurity systems

• Development of delivery systems that increase access to animal health services to women livestock keepers, and poor smallholders

Overall Outcomes

• Improved systems and capacities for monitoring evolution, introduction and spread of pathogens (CRP 4.3)

Existing Projects

• East Coast fever – vaccine

• support of current vaccine

• development of subunit vaccine

• generic platforms –

• antigen identification

• antigen delivery systems

• challenge trials

• vaccine delivery

Resources: Various - $ 1.37M

Existing Projects

• CBPP – vaccine & diagnostic

• development of subunit vaccine

• development of diagnostic assay

• generic platforms

• antigen i/d and delivery

• diagnostic assay platforms

• challenge trials

• vaccine / diagnostic delivery, modelling

Resources: Various - $ 1.76 M

Existing Projects

• African swine fever – biosecurity, diagnostics

• transmission dynamics

• social networks

• rapid diagnosis

• generic platforms -

• diagnostic assay platforms

• epidemiology for intervention

Resources: Various - $ 1.24 M

Existing Projects

• Peste des petits ruminants – vaccine • thermostabilization

• vaccine delivery

• generic platforms

• thermostabilization

• epidemiology

• control programs

Resources: $ 1.76 M

Existing Projects

• Porcine cysticercosis / trypanosomiasis – diagnostics (CRP4.3) • pen-side assay

• generic platforms

• rapid diagnostic assay technology

• antigen identification

Resources: $ 125k

Existing Projects

• Field studies – VC assessment (CRP4.3) • IDEAL, PAZ, AVID, ESEI

• generic platforms

• verification of PE, surveys

• samples

• biobanking

Resources: IFAD impending; 0.5M

Existing Projects

• ICARDA • Dairy goat – Afghanistan (40% of

180k)

• CBBP sheep – Ethiopia (15% of 700k, impending)

Resources: $ 177k

Existing Projects

• CIAT • Martens – Colombia (15% of 81k)

• Martens – Pig in Colombia (75% of 82k, impending)

• Peters – Dairy in Col., Nic., (5% of 2580k impending)

• van der Hoek - USDA FFPr in Nic., (5% of 200k, impending)

Resources: $ 12 / 200 k

Outputs

East Coast fever – vaccine

2012

• Composition of ITM and comparison to field strains

• Comparative genomics

2013

• CTL adjuvants

• CTL response (antigens, MHC)

Outputs

CBPP – diagnostics and vaccine

2012

• Candidate diagnostic antigens

• Validated challenge model

2013

• Validated diagnostic antigens

• Candidate vaccine antigens

Outputs

ASF – biosecurity, diagnostics

2013

• Improved understanding transmission dynamics of ASF virus and social networks of pig producers

2014

• Improved biosecurity protocols

• Improved assays for ASF diagnosis

Outputs

PPR – vaccine

2012

• Validated thermostabilization protocol

2013

Improved understanding of animal health service delivery options, especially for PPR

Outputs

World Fish

2012

• Policy advice on control of spread of disease developed.

Outputs

CIAT

2012

• Establish comprehensive baseline information on the impacts on production and economics of pig diseases and potential disease measures (including reports on A. pig production activities and diseases for target areas; B. Cost effective disease control including CSF vaccination strategies implemented with serological monitoring to assess degree of protection and optimise vaccination

Outputs

Value chain analysis (Theme 2)

2012

• Initial rapid assessment of technology gaps, epidemiological patterns, economic importance and institutional limitations in mitigating animal disease constraints in target value chains.

2013

• Identification of combinations of technology, epidemiological knowledge and institutional change to solve specific animal health problems

Outcomes

2012 / 2013

• Improved aquaculture biosafety and biosecurity measures adopted and being used

• Prevention of alien pathogens by control of introduction alien species for aquaculture

• Vaccine and diagnostic assay researchers and/or manufacturers using data and antigens to design, make or ascertain the prospects for new or improved animal technologies of benefit in the target value chains.

Outcomes

2012 / 2013 (cont.)

• International, regional and national authorities and researchers using the data to develop and disseminate improved biosecurity protocols.

• Productivity and economic returns of village pig systems and reduce the risks to human health along the market chain in SE Asia and Eastern Africa are improved

Partners

• Academic

• Commercial

• Development

• International / regional

Priorities for Resource Mobilization

2012

Identify gaps in funding to achieve outputs and target potential sources

Recruit FTE to undertake VCA (Th. 2)

Priorities for Organizational, Capacity

Development and Communication Activities

Ensure collaborative links with FAO, CIRAD and others are functioning well

Restructure team to match needs identified in VC assessment exercise

Develop effective, sustainable communication strategies to link researchers with value chain participants to identify needs

Priorities for Organizational, Capacity

Development and Communication Activities

Develop effective, sustainable communication strategies to link researchers across value chains to facilitate development of solutions and dissemination of results

Seek further integration of ILRI led work in Uganda and Viet Nam with CIAT led activities in SE Asia