GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS
1.
The Executive
Committee of the ISCTRC through its secretariat was commended on the
publication of the proceedings of every meeting. In order to further improve on the progress
made so far, it was urged to urgently develop standard formats (in a
camera-ready form) for the presentation of:
·
Abstracts and
full papers for publication;
·
Country and
International Organizations' reports
so that
these are published immediately prior to, and made available at, the beginning
of each conference. This has many
obvious advantages, for example, of reducing burden on the Secretariat for
expensive follow-up actions, reduced cost of publication and easy availability
at the beginning of each ISCTRC meeting.
2. It was
recommended that the Secretariat presents at the beginning of each conference,
in tabulated form, previous recommendations and the actions taken. This will
enable ISCTRC to better assess its performance in the implementation of
previous recommendations and be able to propose whatever is/are needed to
expedite action on those recommendations that are outstanding.
THE GLOBAL RESEARCH INITIATIVE FOR TRYPANOSOMOSIS -
GRIT
The presentation
on GRIT was made and discussed at length. The idea of establishing GRIT was
extensively opposed and generally regarded as negating the progress and
consensus so far achieved in harmonizing international cooperation on Tsetse
and Trypanosomosis control in
GRIT was invited
to approach the already established relevant fora for
harmonizing its views.