Project
SOA
39
Internal project
Integrated Multi-Criteria Policy Framework for Animal Disease Control - THE PROJECT'S WORK IS SUBJECTED TO REA'S APPROVAL OF THE AMENDMENT TO THE EUPAHW GRANT AGREEMENT 101136346
Action 5 - Leading Institute: UU
Project summary
Decisions about animal health and welfare are generally made based on multiple outcomes of various assessments. IMPACTFUL supports decision makers and risk managers by:
- assessing the impact of prevention, control, and surveillance on the societal burden of animal diseases;
- integrating multidimensional information on animal disease burdens through systems thinking;
- an integrated framework for monitoring, evaluating, and learning from animal health policies and
- training and dissemination.
Project objectives
IMPACTFUL aims to provide comprehensive support for decision-making in animal health management by integrating societal burden assessments, evaluating control strategies, and developing training and capacity-building tools.
Key Objectives:
- To assess animal diseases and health impacts across multiple dimensions to inform national and international policy.
- To apply systems thinking approaches to animal health and welfare policy and practice decision making, considering financial, economic, social, food safety, and environmental impacts within a One-Health framework.
- To develop decision-support tools with stakeholders, ensuring easy access to assessments and integrated analyses.
- To evaluate policy support needs and co-produce criteria for assessing policy effectiveness.
- To train risk managers to use assessment outcomes, decision tools, and multi-criteria integration for policy development and evaluation.
Outcomes and impacts
- Monetary and non-monetary burden of selected animal diseases under current and changing agricultural practice.
- Systems thinking approach for using processed animal, fish and chicken protein as feed and food under existing and alternative inspection and control systems.
- Systems thinking approach for using vaccination in face of a changing poultry sector.
- Trades-offs for using vaccination in dairy cattle for bluetongue serotype 3.
- Development of a systematic monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) framework to support animal health policy making.
- Application of the Monitoring Evaluation & Learning (MEL) framework to disease mitigation action such as vaccination, surveillance and biosecurity.
- Overview of challenges for governing diseases including recommendations to mitigate these challenges.
- On-line training material and webinars.
Priority Area 5
Integrated approach, including socio-economic aspects of animal health & welfareOperational objective (OO9)
To develop an integrated approach on animal health and welfare including socio-economic aspects
ACRONYM: IMPACTFUL