3 Building Blocks of Solution:
Wildlife Mortality Monitoring Network for Human and Wildlife Health

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Building Trust with Local Communities

Wildlife Mortality Monitoring Network for Human and Wildlife Health
WCS Republic of Congo

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Creating sustainable networks for reporting and response to wildlife mortality

Wildlife Mortality Monitoring Network for Human and Wildlife Health

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3

Local Capacity Building for Safe Sampling and Testing of Wildlife Carcasses

Wildlife Mortality Monitoring Network for Human and Wildlife Health

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Building Trust with Local Communities

Published: 20 June 2022
Last edited: 20 June 2022
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Building partnerships and trust with local subsistence communities is essential to ensure successful uptake of public health messaging and community engagement in participatory surveillance, especially given that traditional superstitions and beliefs may contrast significantly with modern scientific knowledge and medicine 

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Category
Alliance and partnership development
Co-management building
Collection of baseline and monitoring data and knowledge
Communication, outreach and awareness building
Education, training and other capacity development activities
Evaluation, effectiveness measures and learning
Management planning
Sustainable livelihoods
Technical interventions and infrastructure
Scale of implementation
Local
Phase of solution
Planning phase
Inception phase
Implementation
Monitoring
Documentation and dissemination of results
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Enabling factors

Time, long-term funding, and the human capacity for repeat visits to spend adequate time with communities to build long-standing relationships of trust over a period of years

Lessons learned

In order for participatory surveillance networks with remote communities to be successful, long-term investment is needed, often longer than the duration of short funding streams from foreign entities. Repeat visits and support over many years and consistent, effective communication and rapid result sharing with the communities are essential  

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WCS Republic of Congo

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