Nairobi, Kenya
WOAH offers grant to Africa Veterinary Technicians Association to promote Veterinary Paraprofessional (VPP) Workforce development activities in the region.
May 10, 2022
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On 31 August 2022, in yet another milestone, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), as part of the 3-year grant partnership to the Africa Veterinary Technicians Association (AVTA), extended its support to provide office inventory to help operationalise its activities in the region. This grant is part of the Prevention and Control of Transboundary Animal Diseases (PC-TADs) project, funded by the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
The Prevention and Control of Transboundary Animal Diseases (PC-TADs) project aims to benefit smallholder farmers in the region. Project objective: Smallholder farmers in selected target regions have increased food security, livestock-related income, and benefit from zoonosis control.
Veterinary paraprofessionals (VPPs) workforce development is a key component on the PC-TAD project implemented in collaboration with Veterinary Services in Eastern and Southern African countries. The component entails support to Member countries to develop their VPP workforce that is trained and equipped to provide appropriate quality veterinary service provision to rural and smallholder farmers to control an infectious disease in small ruminants, Peste des petits ruminants (PPR).
AVTA Equipment Sonia Fevre Simon Kihu Samuel Wakhusama
During the handing over of the equipments, Dr Samuel Wakhusama, the Regional Representative for Eastern Africa, encouraged AVTA to continue widening its scope in supporting VPPs across the region, including anglophone and francophone countries, and WOAH is keen to sustain the relationship given the impact it generates for the region.
Dr. Samuel Wakhusama leading the WOAH team in handing over facilites to Mr. Benson Ameda President of AVTA at WOAH sub regional offices in Nairobi. Picture (c) L. Iyadi (WOAH ) 2022.
On his part, Mr Benson Ameda, President of AVTA expressed his extreme gratitude to WOAH, highlighting that the equipment will go a long way in supporting initiatives of the association and its ability to better network with associations Africa-wide.
‘We have engaged our members in Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia, who have now actively revived their local associations. Currently, we are in contact with our members from Democratic Republic of Congo, Benin Republic, and Senegal to sensitize and raise awareness on the development of VPP practices’, he added.
Also present at the ceremony for presentation of the communication equipment to the AVTA held at the Nairobi offices were Simon Kihu, Programme Officer VWD and PPR, Desmond Rono, Project Officer PC-TAD, Sonia Fèvre, Programme Officer (Capacity Building Department) and the team from the Sub-Regional Representation for Eastern Africa.
AVTA Equipment Sonia Fevre Simon Kihu Samuel Wakhusama
AVTA Equipment Sonia Fevre Simon Kihu Samuel Wakhusama
AVTA Equipment Sonia Fevre Simon Kihu Samuel Wakhusama
