Submission of Year III Work Planand Cost Estimate

The Pan African Programme for the Control of Epizootics (PACE) Project iscurrently implemented in 32 African countries with a budget allocated frommember countries and a grant from the European Union. The PACE programmewill assist in removing the major constraints on the development of the livestockfarming sector by creating an appropriate health security framework. It will thushelp to improve farmer's incomes and people's general living conditions.It is to be recalled that Member States of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU),during the ministerial conference held in August 1997, gave a mandate to the InterAfrican Bureau of Animal Resources (IBAR) to harmonise the relevant policies, toensure a continuous and sustainable supply of veterinary services, particularlythrough a partnership between the private and public sector, to co-ordinate and stepup control of epizootics, and to improve epidemio-surveillance, including that ofwildlife.The idea behind the PACE programme is to build on PARC's achievements inorder to establish low-cost national and continental epidemiological surveillancenetworks for the main diseases and develop the capacity needed to organiseeconomically and technically justified disease control programmes and develop aneffective and sustainable distribution of veterinary products and services bypromoting private veterinary practice.