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The overall objective of the program is to strengthen the capacity of national veterinary services in Africa to control and manage trans-boundary and epidemic diseases more effectively in a regional concerted action so as to (a) contributing towards developing or expanding exports markets and trade for animals and animal products under the new scenario of international standard measures of the SPS Agreement of the WTO, and, (b) improve in the longer run the livelihood of livestock keepers as well as consumers demands on quality and safety of animal products. The specific objectives are to build human resource capacity by producing an effective cadre of professionals in regional/ trans-boundary animal disease control and management and to strengthen the regional network of the veterinary faculties of the participating African Countries. Previous experiences Among other projects coordinated by the Addis Ababa University (AAU) with its School of Graduate Studies, AAU proved its competence in EDF and EU project management in the SIDA-SAREC funded “IOEARN” program as well as in the “Environmental Degradation Improvement Project for the Horn of Africa” funded by the Netherlands. Of particular interest in this context is the “Joint MSc Program in Tropical Veterinary Epidemiology (MSc TVE)” which had been successfully implemented by the AAU Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and the Freie Universitaet Berlin (FUB) as a GTZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit) Project from 1996 – 2002. In three joint master courses (offered as a “sandwich” program) over 30 veterinarians from Eastern and Southern Africa were graduated. AAU was self-responsibly handling all course components, from student recruitment, course teaching and research activities, finances to reporting as an equal partner to FUB. After German funding ceased, FVM-AAU continued the MSc-TVE program as a national program; further added an in-house masters program in Tropical Veterinary Medicine and later on in 2005, diversified the masters programs into eight areas. Being aware of the regional and global economic importance of transboundary animal disease management, AAU in collaboration with universities in the neighborhood (Sudan, Kenya, Uganda) and its former joint program partner university in the North (Free University of Berlin, Germany), took the initiative to uptake this new challenge. For this, AAU in collaboration with the partnering universities actively initiated several project planning meetings with all partners which were held in 2006. In 2006, AAU together with the University of Nairobi became founding members of the African Universities Veterinary E-Learning Consortium. The Kenyan partner (UoN) has executed the Guelph/Candada-Nairobi Epidemiology Project until 1999 and is involved in the Kenya-Belgium project for institutional university co-operation. The Uganda partner (Mak) in the past did jointly execute epidemiology training courses with Reading University (UK) and with FU-Berlin. From 1991 to 1997 the Makerere University worked closely together with the Veterinary Faculty Research Outstation of FU-Berlin The Sudanese partners (UoK and SUST) have, recently, more sporadic collaborations with Western countries and were involved in projects of international organizations like PARC/PACE Program of EU, FAO, IFAD, ILRI, ICARDA. Recently, a workshop on emergency preparedness for Rinderpest and other transboundary diseases was held in Khartoum/Sudan in collaboration with FU-Berlin. Besides the above mentioned cooperative activities with AAU and the project partner universities, FU Berlin carries out a Joint Master Course in Veterinary Public Health (MVPH) in collaboration with the Chiang Mai University in Thailand since 2003 under the EU-Asia Link Program. This master course is addressing issues of food safety. |
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