While it features real solutions, final content will undergo review by a technical working group and incorporate feedback from a validation workshop planned for December 2020. Please see these as examples only, and not a definitive list.
Solution /Innovation:

Animal Health Emergency Management Platform (Emergency Management Centre for Animal Health WebEOC)

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Organization:

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

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Technical contact:
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Jéssica Kayamori Lopes
Emergency Management Specialist
FAO
Jessica.kayamorilopes@fao.org
Additional contacts:
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Nir Tenenbaum
Project Manager
Global Incident Coordination Specialist
More info, related website links:

www.juvare.com

Categories:
Camel, Dairy, Frameworks and tools, Gender & equality, Other breed, Pig, Policy, Poultry, and Red meat
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Challenge

Effective coordination of Animal Health Events of International Concern (AHEIC) is still a big gap worldwide. Over the past years, organizations dealing with animal health have recognized the importance of coordination of effort to maximize the impact of heir interventions and have operationalized this through various agreements. In order to address this and to synergize the work against AHEIC, a number of stakeholders, led by the FAO EMC-AH in partnership with OIE, agreed to develop, validate and implement a coordination strategy. To facilitate this coordination, the idea of having an online platform was raised.

The EMC-AH sought to create an emergency management system for mission deployment and incident coordination for animal health that will be used by stakeholders at the regional and global levels. A sustainable, user-friendly and multi-user platform will promote knowledge and experience sharing as well as involvement of key partners in the animal health preparedness and response realm.

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Solution

The WebEOC is the very first virtual platform and Emergency Operation Center (EOC) directed to animal health incidents being developed worldwide. This online platform will not only ease procedures and information exchange in preparedness and response for Animal Health Emergencies and AHEIC, but will also allow the global, regional and local coordination of related activities. For this type of complex coordination, a web-enabled knowledge management platform is critical for implementation. The platform will be the tool that enables the collection and sharing of critical real time information and activities, which will result in effective coordination, resource management, situation reporting, prompt decision-making, etc. A common operating picture that accommodates real-time situational awareness will improve the effectiveness and efficiency of information and resource management during a global animal health threat.
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Impact

This is the very first multi-stakeholder, online platform aimed at managing animal health (AH) emergencies. The base platform (WebEOC) is used around the world in non-AH emergency management. The development currently done by FAO EMC will serve as a first stage from which to extend the system to various stakeholders world-wide.

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Camel, Dairy, Frameworks and tools, Gender & equality, Other breed, Pig, Policy, Poultry, and Red meat

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