Subnational | PANORAMA

Multi-sectoral network building for monitoring wildlife diseases for One Health

Co-development meetings for wildlife health national strategy in Lao PDR

WCS

- 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.

Documentation and dissemination of results

Southeast Asia

WildHealthNet Southeast Asia: Operationalizing Wildlife Health Surveillance for One Health

Lucy

Keatts

Multi-sectoral network building for monitoring wildlife diseases for One Health

Supporting Skills Development for Surveillance and Monitoring of Wildlife Disease

Technology for Wildlife Surveillance Data Collection, Sharing and Management

Effective One Health Response and Interventions to Wildlife Events

Southeast Asia

WildHealthNet Southeast Asia: Operationalizing Wildlife Health Surveillance for One Health

Lucy

Keatts

Multi-sectoral network building for monitoring wildlife diseases for One Health

Supporting Skills Development for Surveillance and Monitoring of Wildlife Disease

Technology for Wildlife Surveillance Data Collection, Sharing and Management

Effective One Health Response and Interventions to Wildlife Events

Southeast Asia

WildHealthNet Southeast Asia: Operationalizing Wildlife Health Surveillance for One Health

Lucy

Keatts

Multi-sectoral network building for monitoring wildlife diseases for One Health

Supporting Skills Development for Surveillance and Monitoring of Wildlife Disease

Technology for Wildlife Surveillance Data Collection, Sharing and Management

Effective One Health Response and Interventions to Wildlife Events

Local Capacity Building for Safe Sampling and Testing of Wildlife Carcasses

With limited funding for wildlife surveillance and veterinary medicine in the country, and limited access for subsistence communities to adequate health care, increasing awareness of the importance of wildlife health as it pertains to human and livestock health at local, provincial, and central levels is essential. Introducing preventative approaches and building local capacity for wildlife surveillance is key to reducing human health risks from contact with wildlife. Bringing diagnostic capacity from other nations into the country itself and ultimately to the carcass side enables better local engagement and rapid response and mitigation efforts in the case of detection of a pathogen of concern

- Long-term external financial support for the development of the wildlife health sector including surveillance and diagnostics

- Long-term funding to develop the capacity of communities to engage in preventative approaches, participatory surveillance and wildlife sampling

- The interest of the host government to develop wildlife health capacity and designation of time and personnel availability to be trained

Enhancing local understanding of the importance of wildlife health for human and livestock health and developing local capacity to conduct effective wildlife surveillance is critical to achieving sustained One Health benefits

Documentation and dissemination of results

Creating sustainable networks for reporting and response to wildlife mortality

Taking the time to develop effective systems for reporting from remote areas (e.g. local human networks or cell-phone based if available) and ensuring a centralized team that responds to reports and communicates findings to communities is vital for the long-term success of such wildlife mortality monitoring networks

- Good relationships and networks from local to district to the provincial and central levels

- Good coordination across multiple sectors from local to national levels

- Financial and human capacity to respond effectively and in a timely manner to mortality reports

- Access to communication tools e.g. cell phones

If communities don't see effective response or communication with them on findings, they are unlikely to continue to participate in surveillance efforts. Taking the time to build efficient, sustainable multi-sectoral networks with key stakeholders is essential

Documentation and dissemination of results

West and Central Africa

Wildlife Mortality Monitoring Network for Human and Wildlife Health

Lucy

Keatts

Building Trust with Local Communities

Creating sustainable networks for reporting and response to wildlife mortality

Local Capacity Building for Safe Sampling and Testing of Wildlife Carcasses

West and Central Africa

Wildlife Mortality Monitoring Network for Human and Wildlife Health

Lucy

Keatts

Building Trust with Local Communities

Creating sustainable networks for reporting and response to wildlife mortality

Local Capacity Building for Safe Sampling and Testing of Wildlife Carcasses

West and Central Africa

Wildlife Mortality Monitoring Network for Human and Wildlife Health

Lucy

Keatts

Building Trust with Local Communities

Creating sustainable networks for reporting and response to wildlife mortality

Local Capacity Building for Safe Sampling and Testing of Wildlife Carcasses

Implementation of Effective Control Strategies for Disease Spillover From Livestock to Wildlife

Multi-sectoral coordination, and communication and coordination with local communities, are essential to clearly and simply share findings of surveillance and why specific management strategies have been developed and are recommended for implementation. This would include, for example, vaccination of domestic livestock for PPR in areas where their range overlaps with that of significant wildlife populations, protecting livestock health, and reducing the risk of spillover to wild ungulates.

Financial support for vaccination or other management strategies; good coordination and communication between sectors; good communication and relationships with local communities of herders; access to vaccines and appropriate storage capability; human capacity to implement effective vaccination campaign.

Open lines of communication between relevant government sectors and between government and communities as well as and their understanding of the disease epidemiology is essential to implement effective disease control strategies that address the concerns of all stakeholders involved.

Documentation and dissemination of results