Work programme _ cost estimate Nigeria national PACE programme for the period 1st December, 2000 to 30th November, 2001.

The Nigerian Pan African Rinderpest Campaign (PARC) project came to being throughthe preparation and approval of a work programme that was considered and endorsed bythe Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources of the Organization of African Unity(OAU/IBAR) Nairobi. The Project (PARC) was an assistance by the European EconomicCommission (EEC) in supporting African countries to, among other things, controlRinderpest and to a certain extent Contagious Bovine Pleuro-Pneumonia (CBPP) while atthe same time enhancing the national capacity in the control of other diseases ofeconomic importance. The Nigerian PARC project was executed as PARC I between July1989 and May 1995.Following the successful completion of the PARC project in Africa in March 1999, theOAU/IBAR further solicited for support from the European Union (EEC/EU) for anotherproject, Pan African Control of Epizootics (PACE) which is also to be executed in manyAfrican countries. It is expected that the PACE project will be built on the gains of PARCand will result in the final eradication of Rinderpest. Substanctial progress would also bemade in the knowledge of the status of some transboundary animal diseases along withthe improvement of the capacities of both public and private veterinarians,paraveterinarians and livestock farmers.Nigeria is to benefit the sum of Two million six hundred and fifty eight thousand Onehundred and twenty-eight Euro (2, 658,128 Euro) during the five years (2000-2005) ofthe PACE project. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) is to be signed between theRegional Authorizing Officer (RAO) of the OAU/IBAR on behalf of the EU and theNigerian National Authorizing Officer (NAO) on behalf of the Federal Government ofNigeria to facilitate the implementation of the project in Nigeria.