Programme estimate No 5 operational period from 01-11-2004 to 31-10-2005.

Ethiopia has — since 1989 participated in two subsequent programmes that is to sayPARC and PACE funded mainly by the EU and focusing on the eradication ofRinderpest. The results are very promising. In fact since 1996 Ethiopia has seen nooutbreak of rinderpest anymore, vaccination against Rinderpest has ceased and the serosurveillance does not show the existence of any Rinderpest virus in Ethiopia.This had entailed a self declaration of provision freedom from Rinderpest on zonal basisin May 1999, a second self declaration modifying and enlarging the provisional diseasefree zone in December 2003 and the preparation of an application for freedom fromRinderpest on zonal basis in early 2004.The unclear Rinderpest situation in neighbouring countries, that is to say Kenya andSomalia does not allow Ethiopia to go further on the OIE pathway , so far no freedomfrom infection on zonal bask is foreseen by OIE.In order to attain the overall goal of eradicating Rinderpest worldwide — the remainingpossible Rinderpest foci seem to be situated only in the Somali Ecosystem, Ethiopia iswilling to join its neighbours in their effort to eradicate Rinderpest in maintaining asurveillance zone bordering Kenya and Somalia and in monitoring continuously theconcerned districts for the presence of Rinderpest not only in cattle but also in wildlifewhich is suspected to maintain the virus.This additional tasks above routine activities of disease surveillance in order to attain thenext step in the OIE pathv,av entails additional costs for Ethiopia. Considering that theinitial indicative budget allocated to Ethiopia for the execution of a 5 year controlprogramme have not been spent completely, in fact Ethiopia has only benefited so farfrom 4 years of funding, the present programme estimate for a two years extension wasprepared.The objective of the planned activity is to identify any potential sources of Rinderpestand to consolidate the rinderpest free status in and beyond the actually provisionaldisease free zone and to integrate the Rinderpest surveillance into the national epidemiosurveillance network V hick focuses on the control of other major epizootics such asCBPP, RVF, PPR etc