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Public-private partnerships: at the heart of animal health surveillance
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Marisa Peyre, Animal, Health, Territory, Risks and Ecosystems (ASTRE) Unit, French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), Montpellier, France.
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Parallel surveillance systems
In the majority of Global South countries, private surveillance systems operate in parallel with official public systems because of a lack of collaboration and limited trust between the sectors [1]. The situation is different in Global North countries, where the public sector, represented by the state, gives a mandate to the private sector to implement animal health surveillance, illustrating a ‘win-win’ type of public–private partnership. This type of partnership sometimes lacks transparency and cooperation and could be reinforced [2]. It is therefore vital to improve the links between surveillance performed by the private and public sectors [3].
Limited recognition of the contraints and needs of the different stakeholders
It is imperative to take further account of the constraints and needs of the stakeholders involved in surveillance in order to nurture their commitment and improve surveillance systems.
In Indonesia, the iSIKHNAS animal health surveillance system was developed in cooperation with local stakeholders and focuses on their needs. iSIKHNAS is not only effective, with more than five million voluntary users, it is also sustainable, because the economic model is based on a public–private partnership with concrete commitments and risks shared between the public and private sectors.
The Global Burden of Animal Diseases (GBADs) initiative, supported by the OIE [4], provides an opportunity to integrate the constraints and needs of private and public stakeholders involved in surveillance and to reinforce and extend these links.
http://dx.doi.org/10.20506/bull.2019.3.3044
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