Several factors, including population growth, constant movements of people and goods including animals and their products, globally growing urbanisation and industrialisation, as well as agricultural systems restructuring and expansion, livestock production and trade mobility, in addition to climate change impacts, collectively jeopardise the ecosystem integrity and constitute enormous complicated challenges that exacerbate the risks of animal disease emergence, re-emergence and spill-over, along with modifying numerous pathogens spread and transmission dynamics.
Therefore, strengthening risk analysis skills through structured methodological frameworks is a crucial prerequisite to developing national veterinary services capabilities and capacities to address these ever-mounting challenges. This is in alignment with WOAH’s strategic objectives corresponding to responding to members’ needs and leveraging relevant expertise to address multisectoral animal health and welfare issues. Indeed, the Animal health risk analysis continuum is one of the main core competencies against which the performance of Veterinary Services is assessed, as per the Woah PVS tool. Furthermore, providing introductory training on animal disease emergency simulation exercises will enhance awareness and augment knowledge to maximise uptake through combining risk assessment and management principles with simulation exercise concepts to establish a realistic perception for conducting such exercises and inform the associated planning and implementation, to optimise disease contingency plans, examine readiness assessment and eventually fosters the development of veterinary professional’s emergency preparedness skills.
Within this context, WOAH Subregional Representation for the Arabian Gulf (SRRAG) is organising this training workshop on Animal Disease Risk Assessment, Management and Simulation Exercises, in collaboration with the Preparedness and Resilience Department and renowned subject matter experts from WOAH concerned Collaborating Centres. The main objective is to enhance the capacities of the veterinary staff in member countries with regard to animal-disease-risk-analysis elements and practical procedures, along with elevating their knowledge on simulation exercises as a controlled activity depicts real outbreak situations to strengthen timely containment and control capacities for the diseases of devastating economic, social and sanitary impacts and combating epidemics incursions, in the shortest possible time and most cost-effective ways, which eventually aids the efforts animal disease national and regional management and control planning.
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