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Strengthening Veterinary Legislation: Australia's Donor Role

Explore Australia's commitment to strengthening veterinary legislation in developing countries, with insights on agencies involved, donor benefits, principles and practices, governance, and partnership with the OIE.

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Strengthening Veterinary Legislation: Australia's Donor Role

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  1. Capacity building to support strengthening of veterinary legislation Donor country perspective – AustraliaDr Joffrid MackettConsul (Agriculture) - Middle East

  2. Outline • Australia’s commitment • Agencies – AusAID, ACIAR, DAFF • Why be a donor? • Guiding principles and practices • Governance • Working with OIE to improve veterinary legislation • An example in our region – the PSVS • The future

  3. Australia’s commitment • Committed to UN Millennium Development Goals • Australia’s aid program has doubled over the last five years to an estimated $4.3 billion in 2010-2011 • Expect to achieve a level of 0.5% of Gross National Income for development assistance by 2015

  4. Agencies • The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) manages Australia’s international development assistance program • A whole-of-government approach is used to plan and deliver capacity building programs • For animal health issues, the main agencies working with AusAID are DAFF and ACIAR

  5. Why be a donor? • Humanitarian prerogative • National borders do not protect against EIDs • Asia a ‘hot spot’ for emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), many of which are zoonotic • Veterinary services are a global public good • Assisting developing countries improve their veterinary services helps Australia to manage the risks of animal diseases

  6. Guiding principles and practices • Principles of aid effectiveness • Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action • ownership, alignment, harmonisation, managing for results and mutual accountability

  7. Guiding principles and practices • For Australia, this means working in partnership with recipient countries and other donors to achieve sustainable development • Align aid with partner government’s priorities • Strengthen systems for the long term • Avoid duplication • Use existing mechanisms and approaches e.g OIE standards and guidelines

  8. Guiding principles and practices • Australia’s focus – • strengthening aid effectiveness • achieving measurable outcomes • sustainability • gender

  9. A word about gender • Australia’s aid program aims to help promote gender equality • The different vulnerabilities, needs and roles of men and women are taken into account as programs are designed

  10. Governance • Australian Government programs must be managed to ensure efficient, effective and ethical use of resources • Measuring performance is integral • Office of Development Effectiveness monitors the quality and evaluates the impact of the Australian aid program • Continual improvement through monitoring and review of programs; modify as needed

  11. Working with OIE to improve veterinary legislation • The OIE provides tools to support capacity building in animal health e.g. • international standards for the evaluation of veterinary services • guidelines on veterinary legislation • OIE Tool for the Evaluation of Performance of Veterinary Services (OIE PVS Tool) • Australia integrates these existing mechanisms into its programs where possible

  12. Working with OIE to improve veterinary legislation • Veterinary legislation is a fundamental principle of quality of veterinary services in Article 3.1.2 of the Terrestrial Animal Health Code • It is necessary for good governance and for effective implementation of the core activities of veterinary services

  13. An example in our region • The OIE/AusAID Project to Strengthen Veterinary Services to Combat Avian Influenza and Other Priority Diseases in South East Asia (the PSVS program) • a program that integrates existing OIE standards and tools to assist countries improve veterinary legislation and governance

  14. PSVS • Aims to enhance capacity of Southeast Asian countries to detect and respond to EIDs • Takes a regional approach - co-operation between neighbouring countries is essential to effectively combat transboundary animal diseases • Veterinary legislation and governance a key technical focus of the program

  15. The future • Australia wants to see: • laws that work to control EIDS in the region • programs owned by the countries • sustainable change • performance measurement • mutual accountability • a partnership approach

  16. The future • Donors will be guided by recipient country priorities • Governments and central bureaucracies need to understand the importance of animal health to national economies and population well-being

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