Co-development meetings for wildlife health national strategy in Lao PDR
WCS
Multi-sectoral network building for monitoring wildlife diseases for One Health
- WildHealthBuild: Building partnerships and breaking down silos across the human health, animal health, and environment/ wildlife sectors is an essential first step in planning and implementing wildlife surveillance for One Health intelligence, improving coordinated result sharing and response and the likelihood that networks and sustainable and used to guide science-based policy and disease control mechanisms going forward.
- Long-term funding from international donors
- Support and buy-in from national government actors at local, provincial, and national levels
- Support and buy-in from central government across human health, animal health, and wildlife/ environmental sectors
Convening regular multi-sectoral meetings for open discourse on the challenges and opportunities to monitoring and management of disease at the wildlife-human-livestock interface, and improving communications and trust between and across sectors, is critical in the joint development of functional, long-term wildlife surveillance networks for One Health intelligence, and adoption of associated policies. This takes considerable time and a sustained effort, often, unfortunately, outside of the normal funding cycles of donor agencies.