Community-Based Avian Influenza Control (CBAIC) Project

[Sally Furniss]

Community-Based Avian Influenza Control (CBAIC) Project


Multi-year project is set to end in August 2008

From an Indonesian blogger:

My New Job - TANGGAP FLU BURUNG

Ed: Tanggap: to scan, to react (kamus online). May be: Monitoring Bird Flu

After 14 months assignment as Operations Officer for UNDP Emergency Response and Transitional Recovery based in Banda Aceh, it's time for me to pull my self from the conflict/recovery setting and retreat to the Big Durian (Ed, Durian is a fruit Jakarta is "the Big Apple" of Indonesia) , my Jakarta, the city I consider home for the past 29 years (I was 2 when we moved to Jakarta from Jogja).

With my new assignment, I need to forget about the romantics of Emergency Setting work, since I was joining US Government initiative in combating Avian Influenza, yes, that?s Flu Burung.

As a Program Development Officer my responsibilities including Organization of Community Based Participation Program, Program Monitoring, Subcontractor Monitoring and Technical Assistance and Liaising with other partner organization including FAO, WHO, CARE, Ministry of Agriculture, Komnas Flu Burung

Brief explanation about my new project:

Expert Services for Management and Coordination of the Community-Based Avian Influenza Control Activities (CBAIC)
July 2006?July 2007

Working to control the spread of bird flu

The Food and Agriculture Organization?s chief veterinary officer has indicated that, from a veterinary perspective, the world is facing an unprecedented crisis in the form of avian influenza (AI). The situation in Indonesia is particularly dire because of deaths in North Sumatra and the likely possibility of human-to-human transmission of the most virulent form of AI, the H5N1 virus.

In response to this emergency, USAID launched the Community-Based AI Control Activities (CBAIC). CBAIC focuses on three critical, interrelated elements:

- Strengthening AI planning and pandemic preparedness at the national, provincial, and local government levels in coordination with the National Committee for AI;

- Improving management and coordination of village- and community-level activities for animal and human surveillance and response; and

- Fine-tuning and expanding behavior change communication programs for AI target populations, the private sector, and government officials.

In Indonesia, a community-level approach to AI disease control must overcome many challenges. For example, rural communities have limited knowledge of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. Moreover, because of the free-ranging nature of smallholder poultry farming, it is difficult to involve many of these poultry producers in disease control programs. Often they are unable to tell the difference between AI, Newcastle, or other less fatal poultry diseases; they have low levels of bio-security; and they generally know little about AI prevention and surveillance techniques. In addition, because many poultry farmers do not know how to identify AI symptoms or understand the need for laboratory tests to confirm the presence of AI, outbreaks have not always been reported quickly enough. There also are economic disincentives to reporting outbreaks in a timely fashion to local authorities. Finally, even in cases where the knowledge and willingness to report AI outbreaks exist in rural Indonesia, the resources to change husbandry practices (for example, bio-security measures) are scarce or unavailable.

DAI is working with USAID, the Government of Indonesia, and other donors to refine and expand behavior change communication programs to educate poultry producers and community members about AI and to show them how best to respond to outbreaks. At the same time, we are strengthening the planning and coordination activities of the national AI Prevention and Preparedness Committee to measurably reduce the incidence of AI outbreaks and quickly limit the scale and scope of outbreaks that do occur. DAI is developing a clear and targeted public awareness and information campaign that covers a wide range of issues, such as:

- AI surveillance;

- Identification and reporting;

- Outbreak response, including culling and control of animal movements; and

- Post-outbreak actions, including possible vaccination and post-vaccination monitoring and restocking.

DAI provides grants to local nongovernmental organizations involved in training and communication, especially for the backyard poultry sector, in support of improved bio-security, vaccination, destocking, compensation, surveillance/reporting, and public awareness.

http://ariep.multiply.com/journal/item/77

Indonesia - Community-Based Avian Influenza Control (CBAIC) Project
Client: U.S. Agency for International Development
August 2006?July 2008

Working to control the spread of bird flu

Afflicted by the world?s largest number of H5N1 avian influenza (AI) human cases and human deaths, Indonesia has recognized the need to strengthen its surveillance and response. The CBAIC project focuses on three interrelated elements:

<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="740"><tbody><tr><td style="padding-top: 22px;" class="text" valign="top">Strengthening AI planning and pandemic preparedness at the national, provincial, and local government levels in coordination with the National Committee for AI Control and Influenza Pandemic Preparedness (KOMNAS). The project will provide financial, management, and capacity-building support to KOMNAS, specifically supporting monthly strategy meetings, desktop simulation exercises for emergency preparedness, and regional workshops for Governors and Bupaties.

Managing and coordinating village- and community-level training in animal and human surveillance and response. The Immediate Assistance for Strengthening Community-Based Early Warning and Early Reaction to AI in Indonesia program?run by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) within the Ministry of Agriculture, and supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and AusAID?has successfully pioneered the use of teams trained in participatory disease surveillance and response. CBAIC will take this surveillance and response to the community level so that the community at large can identify and respond to AI outbreaks.

Fine-tuning and expanding behavior change communications programs for AI target populations, the private sector, the media, and government officials. International organizations have collaborated in recent months to plan a coordinated national media campaign.

The CBAIC project has achieved the following results:

Trained 68 master trainers, 167 subdistrict facilitators, and 12,700 village AI coordinators in 68 districts, all made possible through close collaboration with two local partners: Muhammadiyah and Indonesian Red Cross, use of whose community structures and resources accelerated training and the dissemination of key messages.

Collaborated with UNICEF to reprint 100,000 copies of CBAIC?s training booklet for inclusion in UNICEF?s AI control guidance kit, distributed in Java and South Sulawesi. Similar coordination with the American Red Cross and WHO reduced duplication of effort and leveraged AI resources.

Distributed more than 37,000 booklets, 15,000 shop blinds, 500 flipcharts, 179,000 flyers, and more than 10,000 t-shirts through community trainings and partner networks.

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http://www.dai.com/work/project_detail.php?pid=122