Work programme cost estimate for PACE common services co-ordination units.

The activities of the PACE Programme's Common Services and Co-ordination Units for the 12months beginning on 1 June 2001 are described in this document.The combined activities of the various teams in the Common Services and Co-ordination Unitswill produce the six results required to achieve the purpose of the year's work, namely that"Animal resource keepers, traders and national level professionals cooperate to combatmajor animal diseases, within the context of Pan-African collaboration that is co-ordinatedand facilitated by OAU/IBAR."Essentially, the PACE Programme's Common Services and Co-ordination Units will serve the32 PACE member countries that constitute its clients.The PACE Programme Co-ordination Unit in Nairobi (that also co-ordinates the activitiesin 10 eastern African countries) and the Regional Co-ordination Unit in Bamako (that covers22 countries in West/Central Africa) will be responsible for the co-ordination of the CommonServices and national PACE components. In addition, the PCU has specific responsibilities forinternational liaison, the development of a training programme and the commissioning of aresearch programme on applied aspects of CBPP and rinderpest through the appropriate worldreference centres.This year, for the first time, the PACE Programme will fund the 01E's RegionalRepresentative for Africa, who will be based in Bamako. He will work closely with thePACE staff and will ensure that supportive measures are in place initially in those countriesthat are at high risk of rinderpest resurgence. This will ensure that the PACE Emergency fundcould be swiftly mobilised, if necessary. In support of this fund, PACE will establish arinderpest vaccine bank and will re-activate the PANVAC vaccine quality assurance activitiesin Dakar.The PACE Epidemiology Unit (PEU) is the heart of the PACE Programme. Its activitieswill contribute mainly to the facilitation of the establishment of a Pan-African network forepidemio-surveillance; the verification of the eradication of rinderpest; and, the elaboration ofstrategies for participatory control of other priority epizootics. The IAEA will second anexpert in veterinary laboratory diagnostics who will lead the important activity of strengtheningthe region's diagnostic capacity. The PEU will co-ordinate the surveillance of rinderpest indomestic and wild animal populations in PACE countries and will ensure that countries followprocedures that are compatible with the requirements of the OIE pathway for the declarationof freedom from rinderpest. PACE aims to extend epidemio-surveillance to other priorityepizootics on a sustainable basis. To this end, the PEU will undertake a series of activities," inclose collaboration with the PACE Economics Unit, to develop appropriate strategy proposalsfor, initially, CBPP. Other efforts will focus on collecting information on African swine feverand Rift Valley fever in order to support strategy development in affected countries and subregions.