RESOLAB Annual Coordination Meeting - fao ectad bamako

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• Explore ways of generating laboratory fee income by increasing sample submissionsto lab and institutionalizing fees for diagnostic services.Group Composition:President: Kodzo Awounè (Togo)Vice-President: Borrie Jabang (Gambia)Rapporteur: Hassan Abdourahamane (FAO - SFC - Libreville)Members:Luc Aplogan (Benin)Aminata B. Djibo (Niger)André Ngagnou (Cameroun)Opokou Pare (Ghana)Sylvain Enkoro (Gabon)Mahamat Hamid (Tchad)Mondo Moundoumou Placide (Gabon)Tesfai Tseggai (FAO – ECTAD – Abuja)Maria Henriqueta R. Vieira (Guinée Bisseau) Cyrille Loungouedi (Congo)Work Group 1 ReportPreamble:• Considering the fact that the network of laboratories can not be indefinitely financed byexternal sources,• Considering the fact that SADC experience shows that a lot of progress can be made if theregional economic community ensure the network ownership and support it,• Considering the current situation where most of labs lack of adequate funding for routineoperations, because they do not have no autonomous budget,• Considering the decentralization process agreed by FAO;• Considering the ownership of this process by the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) inSouthern and Eastern Africa in supporting laboratories network,• Considering the existence of Regional Animal Health Centres and regional laboratories inthese areas,We recommend:Institutional Aspects• To Central Africa Economic Community of Central Africa States (CEEAC) and to theEconomic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) :Establish a Regional Animal Health Centre in Central Africa;Select a regional reference laboratory in Central Africa.15
• To RESOLABThe RESOLAB advocacy Committee, with the support of FAO, to convince governments and RegionalEconomics Community decisions makers to undertake visit into each country for the theinstitutionalization of RESOLAB for:Including RESOLAB into regional economic institutions;Change in the status of national and regional laboratories in order to empower them visà-visof the veterinary services (in terms of financial resources);Sensitizing governments to adequately fund national veterinary diagnostic laboratories.• To Laboratories DirectorsBring the RESOLAB institutionalization project by their Ministry.Potential sources of funding• For National Labs1. Apply fees for diagnostic services;2. Struggle for a specific budget line into the national budget;3. Get funds through multisectoral projects and / or research programs;4. Mobilize own generated funds (e.g vaccine production);5. Establish partnerships with private sector;6. Levy taxes on veterinary services for Labs;7. Establish partnerships with outside labs in the transfer of expertise and funds mobilization;8. Undertake research and development activities;9. Explore collaborative opportunity with public health in looking for funding.• For RESOLAB10. Obtain funding from the RECs, African Union, OIE and other international institutions.16
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