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Capacity building to support strengthening of veterinary legislation
Donor country perspective – Australia
Dr Joffrid MackettConsul (Agriculture) - Middle East
Outline
• Australia’s commitment
• Agencies – AusAID, ACIAR, DAFF
• Why be a donor?
• Guiding principles and practices
• Governance
• Working with OIE to improve veterinary
legislation
• An example in our region – the PSVS
• The future
Australia’s commitment
• Committed to UN Millennium Development
Goals
• Australia’s aid program has doubled over
the last five years to an estimated $4.3
billion in 2010-2011
• Expect to achieve a level of 0.5% of Gross
National Income for development assistance
by 2015
Agencies
• The Australian Agency for International
Development (AusAID) manages Australia’s
international development assistance
program
• A whole-of-government approach is used to
plan and deliver capacity building programs
• For animal health issues, the main agencies
working with AusAID are DAFF and ACIAR
Why be a donor?
• Humanitarian prerogative
• National borders do not protect against EIDs
• Asia a ‘hot spot’ for emerging infectious
diseases (EIDs), many of which are zoonotic
• Veterinary services are a global public good
• Assisting developing countries improve their
veterinary services helps Australia to
manage the risks of animal diseases
Guiding principles and practices• Principles of aid effectiveness
• Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for
Action
•ownership, alignment, harmonisation,
managing for results and mutual
accountability
Guiding principles and practices• For Australia, this means working in
partnership with recipient countries and other
donors to achieve sustainable development
• Align aid with partner government’s priorities
• Strengthen systems for the long term
• Avoid duplication
• Use existing mechanisms and approaches e.g OIE
standards and guidelines
Guiding principles and practices• Australia’s focus –
• strengthening aid effectiveness
• achieving measurable outcomes
• sustainability
• gender
A word about gender
• Australia’s aid program aims to help
promote gender equality
• The different vulnerabilities, needs and
roles of men and women are taken into
account as programs are designed
Governance
• Australian Government programs must be
managed to ensure efficient, effective and
ethical use of resources
• Measuring performance is integral
• Office of Development Effectiveness
monitors the quality and evaluates the
impact of the Australian aid program
• Continual improvement through monitoring
and review of programs; modify as needed
Working with OIE to improve veterinary legislation
• The OIE provides tools to support capacity
building in animal health e.g.
• international standards for the evaluation
of veterinary services
• guidelines on veterinary legislation
• OIE Tool for the Evaluation of Performance
of Veterinary Services (OIE PVS Tool)
• Australia integrates these existing
mechanisms into its programs where possible
Working with OIE to improve veterinary legislation
• Veterinary legislation is a fundamental
principle of quality of veterinary services in
Article 3.1.2 of the Terrestrial Animal Health
Code
• It is necessary for good governance and for
effective implementation of the core activities
of veterinary services
An example in our region
• The OIE/AusAID Project to Strengthen
Veterinary Services to Combat Avian
Influenza and Other Priority Diseases in
South East Asia (the PSVS program)
• a program that integrates existing OIE
standards and tools to assist countries
improve veterinary legislation and
governance
PSVS
• Aims to enhance capacity of Southeast Asian
countries to detect and respond to EIDs
• Takes a regional approach - co-operation
between neighbouring countries is essential
to effectively combat transboundary animal
diseases
• Veterinary legislation and governance a key
technical focus of the program
The future
• Australia wants to see:
• laws that work to control EIDS in the
region
• programs owned by the countries
• sustainable change
• performance measurement
• mutual accountability
• a partnership approach
The future
• Donors will be guided by recipient country
priorities
• Governments and central bureaucracies need
to understand the importance of animal
health to national economies and
population well-being