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Jordan: Evaluation for action

Assessing animal disease surveillance capacities, May 2021

Year of publication 2024

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 41 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Booklet

Synopsis (short abstract) Strong surveillance systems are critical to identify and respond to human and animal threats rapidly, and to develop efficient disease control programmes. To support countries in building their national veterinary surveillance systems, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) developed the Surveillance Evaluation Tool (SET). SET provides countries with a comprehensive and repeatable methodology to evaluate animal disease surveillance at all levels (central, intermediate and field), leading to the development of specific recommendations for improvement in the form of a prioritized action plan. Additionally, in 2020 FAO developed the SET Biothreat Detection Module (SET-BT) covering attributes related to the surveillance of agro-terrorism and agro-crime. A SET evaluation and SET-BT pilot mission was conducted in Jordan in May 2021 in close collaboration with the country’s veterinary services and law enforcement agencies. The validation of the SET outputs and recommendations by the Chief Veterinary Officer (CVO) of Jordan and Jordan’s security forces in the form of a report will provide guidance to the veterinary services as well as financial and technical partners on ways to improve Jordan’s animal and zoonotic disease surveillance, and will contribute to a multifaceted approach to capacity building in the country, and in the region. Results and recommendations of the SET-BT module were kept as confidential for security reasons. This activity was organized with the support of a grant from the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH). The grant was provided through funding from Global Affairs Canada's Weapons Threat Reduction Program as part of the Building Resilience Against Agro-terrorism and Agro-crime project.

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FAO. 2024. Jordan: Evaluation for action – Assessing animal disease surveillance capacities, May 2021. Rome.

https://doi.org/10.4060/cc9640en

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