ICPALD News

28 Jul 15

Workshop for creating a community-based grassroots disease reporting system for Uganda

A workshop for creating a community-based disease reporting system for Uganda was held in Kampala, from 23rd to 24th July 2015. Its main aim was to seek for stakeholder input into developing and improving community-based grassroot disease reporting system in Uganda as means to improve passive surveillance and disease reporting.…

28 Jul 15

SMP Roll out workshop for Uganda

A national SMP roll-out workshop for Uganda was held in Kampala, from 20th to 22nd July 2015. Its main aim was to roll-out ready Standard Methods and Procedures (SMPs) for FMD, PPR, RVF and brucellosis to veterinary stakeholders within Uganda to create awareness in order to foster smooth implementation of…

27 Jul 15

The sixth VET-GOV Programme Steering Committee (PSC) Meeting

FINAL COMMUNIQUE The sixth VET-GOV Programme Steering Committee (PSC) Meeting was held at the SOFITEL Mauritius Imperial Resort in Port Louis, Mauritius, on 22nd and 23rd July 2015. It was attended by the Steering Committee Members and other participants from AU-IBAR, OIE, FAO, EISMV, EAFF, Midzi agricultural Development Services Pty…

27 Jul 15

ETHIOPIAN NATIONAL SPS COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED AND TRAINING WORKSHOP ON SANITARY & PHYTOSANITARY (SPS) CONDUCTED

ETHIOPIAN NATIONAL SPS COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED AND TRAINING WORKSHOP ON SANITARY & PHYTOSANITARY (SPS) CONDUCTED Non-compliance with world animal and plant health and food safety standards is deemed as a major barrier to accessing international agricultural trade and thereby denying countries the exploitation of the competitive advantage of their locally produced…

20 Jul 15

IGAD /ICPALD participated on the 38th Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) global meeting

CODEX Alimentarius Commission (CAC) is one of the standard setting organizations that work to protect the health of the consumers and ensuring fair practices in the food trade. IGAD has been granted an observer status in CAC since July 2011 and was represented on the above meeting by Drs. Solomon…

16 Jul 15

Test training on modular curricula development on Spatial Planning and Applications of GIS &RS in Agro pastoral Production Systems and Natural Resource Management for IDDRISI.

The IGAD Modular Curricula Development for training courses on GIS/RS application in multi-sectoral and spatial planning in the context of IDDRSI Project (ICDP) is a regional technical support program assisted and funded by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. Its goal is to develop and strengthen the capacity…

13 Jul 15

ICPALD Protocol Mission to South Sudan

Background: In 2009, the IGAD members of Parliament proposed that IGAD establishes a dry land training institution and technical centre to promote bio-prospecting and bio-enterprises. In December 2009, the IGAD Ministers, responsible for livestock development, effected that proposal and signed the animal health policy framework, in which Article VI…

13 Jul 15

Status of domestication of the Regional Animal Health Policy Framework (RAHPF) in the IGAD region reviewed

Status of domestication of the Regional Animal Health Policy Framework (RAHPF) in the IGAD region reviewed. ICPALD/IGAD and AUIBAR jointly organized the above regional meeting with the main objectives of creating further awareness to the relevant Ministries and Stakeholders on the RAHPF, to share and discuss on the outputs and…

13 Jul 15

Progress of STSD project evaluated by Steering committee held in Addis Ababa , Ethiopia

Progress of STSD project evaluated by Steering committee held in Addis Ababa , Ethiopia ICPALD/IGAD and AUIBAR jointly organized steering committees’ meeting on Improving Animal Disease Surveillance in Support of Livestock Trade (STSD project ) on June 26, 2015 in Addis Ababa to review the project progress including technical and…

25 Jun 15

IGAD commends President Kenyatta for lifting ban on remittance companies, asks the world powers to follow suit

Nairobi, 23 June, 2015: The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on Monday commended Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta for lifting a ban on remittance companies that was imposed by the Central Bank of Kenya in March 2015. “This is a bold move by the President who has in mind the interest…

Workshop for creating a community-based grassroots disease reporting system for Uganda

SMP Roll out workshop for Uganda

The sixth VET-GOV Programme Steering Committee (PSC) Meeting

ETHIOPIAN NATIONAL SPS COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED AND TRAINING WORKSHOP ON SANITARY & PHYTOSANITARY (SPS) CONDUCTED

IGAD /ICPALD participated on the 38th Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) global meeting

Test training on modular curricula development on Spatial Planning and Applications of GIS &RS in Agro pastoral Production Systems and Natural Resource Management for IDDRISI.

ICPALD Protocol Mission to South Sudan

Status of domestication of the Regional Animal Health Policy Framework (RAHPF) in the IGAD region reviewed

Progress of STSD project evaluated by Steering committee held in Addis Ababa , Ethiopia

IGAD commends President Kenyatta for lifting ban on remittance companies, asks the world powers to follow suit

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