Presented by Fasil Awol at the HEARD project regional public-private partnerships task force workshop, Amhara, 18 November 2019: Somali, 21 November 2019: Oromia, 26 November 2019

1. Key gaps identified in veterinary service delivery
Fasil Awol
(EVA-HEARD)
Regional PPPs task force workshop
Amhara, 18 November 2019: Somali, 21 November 2019: Oromia, 26 November 2019

2. Presentation outline

3. Introduction
• Ethiopia has one of the largest livestock inventories in Africa
• Livestock support for the livelihoods of an estimated 80 per cent of
the rural poor.
• livestock are extremely important for the country’s economic
development, food and nutrition security, and poverty reduction
• According to the CSA, 2016 the estimated livestock population
approximates to
– 59.5 million cattle,
– 29.5 million sheep,
– 30.2 million goats,
– 8 million equines,
– 1.2 million camels and
– 49 million poultry

4. Introduction
• The economic benefit derived from the livestock sector does not
commensurate with the potential and the sub-sector remains
untapped.
• Major constraints include
– the widely distributed various endemic diseases,
– shortage of animal feed both in terms of quality and quantity and
– low productivity of the local stock.
– Poor input supply system, inefficient input/output marketing
system,
– Other technical and socio-economic considerations have also
contributed for the low performance of the sector.

5. Current capacity of the national
veterinary service
• OIE PVS Evaluation was carried out in 2011 G.C.
• Performance of the national Veterinary system of the
country against international standards evaluated
• Key Gaps in Veterinary service delivery of the Country
were incriminated

6. Key findings of PVS evaluation
• Public veterinary services are underfunded.
• The National capacity for early detection and
containment of diseases is poor
• Narrowly defined Veterinary Services delivery
• Animal welfare not addressed
• Public health + food safety not so well covered and
• Animal Health services - emphasis is more to clinical services and
less so to strategic control of diseases.
• Inefficient livestock disease surveillance and information
systems,
• Inadequate coverage of veterinary services

7. Possible solutions
• The veterinary services of the country require enormous
improvement in terms of
• Regulatory support
• Technical back up and
• Institutional capacities at different levels in order to reduce losses
attributed to diseases and enhance production, productivity and
quality and hence market competitiveness of the livestock sector.

8. HEARD project
• Project Name: HEARD - Health of Ethiopian Animals for
Rural Development
• Location(s) of the action: Addis Ababa, National and
Regional Agriculture and Livestock development
Bureaus/Agencies according to planned
• Total duration of the action (months): 48 months
• Requested EU contribution (amount): EUR 3.80 Million
• EVA Budget: EUR 1,750,335 Million
• ILRI Budget: EUR 2,052,560 Million

9. HEARD project
Objectives of the action
• The overall objective of HEARD is increase sustainable
livestock productivity and improve the marketing of
livestock products”, and,
• The specific objective is quality and reliability of
integrated public and private veterinary service delivery
improved taking into account the increasing impacts of
climate change.

10. The quality and
reliability of
integrated public and
private veterinary
service delivery
improved
Result 2. Technical competences
(knowledge, skills and attitude) and
incentives for veterinary service
providers improved to deliver better and
rationalized services.
Result 3. Food safety of
primary products of
animal origin improved
and better control of
zoonotic diseases
achieved
Result 1 .The quality of
public and private
veterinary services
strengthened, and delivery
optimized (through the
creation of an enabled and
rationalized environment).
Expected results of the project

11. HEARD project
• In line with the HEARD Action Document - intervention framework, this proposal is to
implement Result 2 by ILRI and EVA:
Result 2: Technical competences (knowledge, skills and attitudes) and incentives for
veterinary service providers improved to deliver better and rationalized services
3 Major Activities
Activity 2.1: Pilot the veterinary service rationalization roadmap
Activity 2.2: Develop training materials and implement innovative delivery methods for
skill Development in veterinary professionals, para-professionals and
livestock
producers
Activity 2.3: Make available and disseminate resources for animal health knowledge, best
practices and Research findings, including measures to militate against the
impact of climate change

12. Key veterinary service gaps identified in
May and June 2019 workshops
A stakeholder workshop involving service
providers from the public and private sector
was organized in May 2019 and second in
June 2019 at Bishoftu to identify the gaps in
veterinary service provision.

13. Pictures from the consultative workshops
Participants of the second consultative workshopParticipants of the first consultative workshop

14. Key veterinary service gaps
• Disease reporting system
• Poor quality report
• Interrupted report
• Low report rate
• Illegal drug trade, drug abuse, drug sale without
prescription.
• Poor sectoral and institutional coordination
between regional and federal offices, MoA and
MOH, NGOs and GOs, private and public sector.

15. • Lack of support from the government to the
private sector (training, refreshment courses,
experience sharing, credit)
• Poor access to services and inputs (drugs in
quantity, quality, variety and affordability)
• Access and quality of laboratory diagnostics
services
• Non- infectious diseases are not well managed
due to inputs shortages, absence of farm gate
clinical services
Key veterinary service gapsc

16. • Vaccination programs (absence of vaccination
strategy in Ethiopia, no schedule for vaccination)
• Vaccines products for poultry are in large packs
(500 doses), not suited to smallholders, rarely
available
• Misconduct of practitioners (drug sold without
prescription, not enough information for drug sold)
Key veterinary service gaps

17. Key Veterinary Service Gaps
• Lack of awareness on rational drug use Leading
to development of AMR.
• Limitations in skills among both professionals
and paraprofessionals.
• Lack of incentives for professionals and others
service providers.

18. The Health of Ethiopian Animals for Rural Development (HEARD) project is financed by the
European Union.
Among the other objectives of the project, ‘improving the technical competencies of
veterinary service providers to enable them to deliver better and provide rationalized
services’ is implemented by the Ethiopian Veterinarians Association (EVA) and the
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) lead HEARD project in partnership with the
Ministry of Agriculture of the Ethiopian Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
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