FrenchieGirl
Senior Moderator
The following document is not dated. However it appears in a January 2008 update of the OIE site, and it has otherwise been brought to my attention today. I understand work is progressing on the subject of twinning laboratories.
http://www.oie.int/eng/info_ev/Other%20Files/Concept%20final%20Twinning.pdf
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The OIE concept of twinning between laboratories
Introduction
The OIE fully realises that the most effective way of detecting, diagnosing, controlling and responding to animal disease and zoonotic incursions, is to ensure good governance in Member Countries. Integral to good governance is the ability and capacity of all Member Countries to comply with the guidelines, recommendations and international standards of the OIE that are mandated by the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
The OIE has therefore embarked on a unique strategic initiative to develop an assessment and evaluation system to assist countries to identify weaknesses in their system that makes it difficult for them to comply with the minimum standards, guidelines and recommendations of the OIE. The evaluation system based on the performance, strategy and vision of a country to move towards compliance (commonly referred to as the PVS-strategy) is already in operation and applied successfully in a number of developing and in-transition countries. The assessment system considers critical aspects of veterinary service delivery such as technical capability, human and financial capital, interaction with the private sector and the needs and problems associated with access to markets. The OIE has, by linking this initiative to its overall aim to establish awareness and acceptance of the delivery of veterinary services as an international public good, elicited major financial support for this project from the World Bank and other donors, including some Member Countries of the OIE. Integral to the assessment process is also the identification of the need to establish scientific and technological expertise within these countries to enable them to become self-sufficient to early detect and diagnose diseases and to be able to provide the scientific justification for certification of animals and animal products for trade.
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Twinning ? an integral concept to capacity building for the improvement of veterinary services
Out of the current 168 Member Countries of the OIE, almost 72% (120) are from developing countries with variable scientific capacity or access to scientific expertise within their national laboratories - with the majority of OIE Reference Laboratories and Collaborating Centres and expertise still situated in the remaining 47 Member Countries. All 167 Member Countries of the OIE are however obliged to comply or move towards compliance with the international guidelines, recommendations and standards prescribed in the OIE Codes and Manuals for both terrestrial and aquatic animals. It is therefore of critical importance to establish the necessary scientific expertise in these countries and eventually ensure an even geographical spread of available expertise to provide the essential scientific support to the veterinary services within these countries, thereby enabling them to more readily apply the guidelines, recommendations and standards of the OIE.
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http://www.oie.int/eng/info_ev/Other%20Files/Concept%20final%20Twinning.pdf
[Emphasis is mine]
The OIE concept of twinning between laboratories
Introduction
The OIE fully realises that the most effective way of detecting, diagnosing, controlling and responding to animal disease and zoonotic incursions, is to ensure good governance in Member Countries. Integral to good governance is the ability and capacity of all Member Countries to comply with the guidelines, recommendations and international standards of the OIE that are mandated by the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
The OIE has therefore embarked on a unique strategic initiative to develop an assessment and evaluation system to assist countries to identify weaknesses in their system that makes it difficult for them to comply with the minimum standards, guidelines and recommendations of the OIE. The evaluation system based on the performance, strategy and vision of a country to move towards compliance (commonly referred to as the PVS-strategy) is already in operation and applied successfully in a number of developing and in-transition countries. The assessment system considers critical aspects of veterinary service delivery such as technical capability, human and financial capital, interaction with the private sector and the needs and problems associated with access to markets. The OIE has, by linking this initiative to its overall aim to establish awareness and acceptance of the delivery of veterinary services as an international public good, elicited major financial support for this project from the World Bank and other donors, including some Member Countries of the OIE. Integral to the assessment process is also the identification of the need to establish scientific and technological expertise within these countries to enable them to become self-sufficient to early detect and diagnose diseases and to be able to provide the scientific justification for certification of animals and animal products for trade.
[...snip...]
Twinning ? an integral concept to capacity building for the improvement of veterinary services
Out of the current 168 Member Countries of the OIE, almost 72% (120) are from developing countries with variable scientific capacity or access to scientific expertise within their national laboratories - with the majority of OIE Reference Laboratories and Collaborating Centres and expertise still situated in the remaining 47 Member Countries. All 167 Member Countries of the OIE are however obliged to comply or move towards compliance with the international guidelines, recommendations and standards prescribed in the OIE Codes and Manuals for both terrestrial and aquatic animals. It is therefore of critical importance to establish the necessary scientific expertise in these countries and eventually ensure an even geographical spread of available expertise to provide the essential scientific support to the veterinary services within these countries, thereby enabling them to more readily apply the guidelines, recommendations and standards of the OIE.
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