Summary of the P3V webinar (4/5): capitalising on approaches and lessons learned as a lever for sustainability and transferability

On 26 November 2025, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), with the support of the French Development Agency (AFD), organised a webinar on the impact and capitalisation of the ‘Professionalisation of Veterinary Para-professionals’ Project (P3V). This event aimed to highlight the project’s results, the lessons learned from its implementation, and the prospects for consolidating and sustaining its achievements.

This article is part of a series of five contributions from this webinar, each corresponding to a presentation. Following an initial article devoted to a general presentation of the P3V Project, a second article analysing its impacts and the lessons learned from its implementation, and a third article focusing on the analysis of the real needs of livestock farmers, this fourth article focuses on capitalising on the approaches, tools and lessons learned from the implementation of the Project.

This fourth article is based on the presentation given by Dr Camille Delavenne and Ms. Catriona Mackenzie from EpiMundi. This session highlighted how the P3V Project structured the documentation, analysis and dissemination of its findings, with a view to ensuring the sustainability of its results and preparing for the transferability of the model to other contexts.

Capitalisation: a strategic choice at the end of the project

Now in its final phase, with completion scheduled for June 2026, the P3V Project has embarked on a proactive capitalisation process, considered a central pillar for sustaining its achievements. Capitalisation is understood as a structured process of documentation and learning, aimed at:

• Retaining the experience and knowledge gained,
• Formalising approaches, methods and processes,
• Improving future intervention strategies,
• Facilitating the sharing of experience and the transfer of skills,
• Creating a common reference base for stakeholders.

This approach addresses a key challenge: preventing the knowledge accumulated over several years from being lost when Project funding ends.

Capitalisation methodology implemented

The P3V capitalisation process is based on a rigorous methodology, structured around several complementary stages:

• Data collection from documents produced by the Project,
• Interviews with stakeholders, including coordination teams, national focal points and partners,
• Organisation of capitalisation workshops, promoting collective analysis and experience sharing,
• Analysis and formalisation of approaches, methods and processes,
• Identification, categorisation and prioritisation of lessons learned,
• Targeted dissemination through workshops, webinars and communication materials.

This methodology is less about producing an additional impact assessment than about structuring a Project memory that can be used beyond the project’s lifetime.

Regional capitalisation tools

The tools developed as part of P3V are project-wide, with a regional focus. They do not constitute a comparison between countries, nor are they specific to a particular institute or isolated national context.

Their added value lies in their ability to:

• Identify common reference frameworks,
• Support the creation of a ‘common ground’ in West Africa,
• Serve as a basis for national adaptation by the actors concerned.

This approach recognises that transferability cannot be mechanical but is based on a contextualised appropriation of tools and lessons learned.

Key lessons for the sustainability of the P3V model

Capitalisation has revealed several conditions for success that are essential to the sustainability of the P3V model:

• The existence of political will and a favourable regulatory framework,
• Support from the technical expertise and guidelines of the WOAH,
• A solid initial assessment of the veterinary network,
• Consistency between initial training, continuing education and professional integration,
• The structuring of functional consultation frameworks,
• The development of viable integration and economic models,
• The cross-cutting integration of gender issues.

These elements constitute a structural foundation for any initiative aimed at the sustainable professionalisation of veterinary paraprofessionals (VPPs).

Structural results to be consolidated

The overall results highlighted by the capitalisation demonstrate an increase in skills at several levels:

• At the institutional level, through regulatory processes,
• At the level of training establishments,
• Among trainers and VPPs,
• In the quality of relations between actors in the animal health system.

Conclusion

This webinar presentation emphasises that capitalisation is not a secondary activity, but a strategic lever for sustainability and transferability. By structuring and sharing the lessons learned from P3V, the Project has laid the foundations for a collective memory that can be mobilised by national and regional actors.

These achievements provide essential support for promoting the adoption of tools, strengthening political advocacy and supporting the expansion of the P3V model. They pave the way for the fifth and final article in the series, which focuses on the conditions for transferring the P3V to other countries.