Improving veterinary services through public-private partnerships

Just out 30 August 2019
The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has just published a Handbook of guidelines for successful public-private partnerships in the veterinary domain. This work was conducted by OIE and CIRAD, with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
A farmer moving his cattle in Mayotte © CIRAD, L. Balberini
A farmer moving his cattle in Mayotte © CIRAD, L. Balberini

A farmer moving his cattle in Mayotte © CIRAD, L. Balberini

Benefits and impacts of public-private partnerships

Guidelines for successful public-private partnerships in the veterinary domain (cover) © OIE

Because no sector can meet all of its needs alone, the creation of partnerships is essential, especially to improve the quality of veterinary services throughout the world. To this end, OIE has just published ahandbook and an e-learning course to help its members to leverage the potential of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in animal health. This document identifies the generic benefits and impacts of PPPs in the veterinary domain. It is available in three languages: English, French and Spanish.

A partnership between CIRAD and OIE

This handbook is the result of a partnership between OIE and CIRAD. In 2017, a survey among the 181 member countries of the international organisation and private entities identified around 100 successful PPPs and produced a global typology of PPPs in the veterinary domain.
According to Isabelle Dieuzy-Labaye, Head of the PPP initiative at OIE, “the collaboration with researchers at CIRAD adds a scientific dimension that legitimises and gives weight to the data used in the handbook. The guidelines have a real scientific base that complements the expert workshops”.

Training workshops on good practices

CIRAD’s researchers are also involved in the dissemination of these good practices through training workshops based on the OIE handbook. The first workshop was held in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) in late August 2019, with the presence of nine countries from East, West and Southern Africa. The next regional workshops will be held in Tunisia, Nepal and Thailand. The goal is to develop a community of practice on PPPs in the veterinary domain and to see national champions and instructors emerge, who are involved in the development and implementation of successful and sustainable PPPs in the veterinary field.

The participants in the first regional training workshop in good PPP practice, based on the OIE handbook, in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), 21-22 August 2019 © OIE

The participants in the first regional training workshop in good PPP practice, based on the OIE handbook, in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), 21-22 August 2019 © OIE

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