The PVS Evaluation and convergence PVS-PCP

Monique Eloit and Joseph Domenech OIE

4th West Eurasia Annual Roadmap Meeting2-4 April 2013, Bakou, Azerbaijan

It is a continuous process aiming to sustainably improve the compliance of Veterinary

Services with international standards

The OIE PVS Pathway

Missions completed: 111

Missions requested: 118

OIE PVS Evaluation Reports Available: 81

A continuous Process to improvethe compliance of VS with internationalstandards

PVS Gap Analysis Mission

OIE PVS Legislation missions, Veterinary Education (twinnings), Veterinary Stat Body (twinnings),Laboratory PVS Gap Analysis, One Health PVS mission.PVS Pathway Follow-up Eval., Round tables with donors.

Missions completed: 56

Missions requested: 74

Reports Available: 33How and what to financeis the sovereign decisionof the country

OIE PVS Tool

Public document http://www.oie.int/eng/oie/organisation/A_2010_PVSToolexcludingindicators.pdf

-Manual of the Assessor (Given to OIE PVS Assessors)

Volume 1: Guidelines for conducting an OIE-PVS Evaluation Volume 2: Guidelines for writing an OIE-PVS Evaluation

Report

- OIE PVS Tool with Provisional Indicators (Given to OIE PVS Assessors)

Human,Physical,Financial

Resources

Technical Capability

andAuthority

Interactionwith

Stakeholders

MarketAccess

4 fundamental components

Critical competencies

(6 - 14)

5 levels of advancement

PVS Evaluation of Veterinary Services

The diagnosis

Market Access

PVS Tool: Levels of advancement

Level 1 no compliance

Level 5 full compliance with

OIE standards

• 5 levels of advancement (qualitative) for each critical competency

• A higher level assumes compliance with all preceding levels

PVS Pathway Follow-up Evaluations

•Initial country PVS evaluation = baseline founded on democratically adopted OIE international standards on Quality of Veterinary Services

•Regular country PVS Evaluation missions are useful to assess, monitor and accompany progress made (change in legislation, structure, impact of national and international investments, technical capacities improved, etc.).

•Every [2 to 5] years

The basic principle is that a country embarking on the PCP-FMD should acquire the appropriate capacity and capability of the VS to conduct activities aimed at the control or elimination of FMD (and other TADs). This is referred to as the ‘enabling environment’ in the PCP.

Fundamental to progressively develop the Veterinary Service as the country moves up through the FMD-PCP stages and official recognition by the OIE of national control programmes and free status

Linking the OIE PVS and FMD PCP Tools

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33 OIE PVS Critical Competencies (CCs) among 46 are of particular relevance to the prevention and control of FMD:

Animal Health (4 / 5) Veterinary Public Health (1 / 4) Laboratory (2 / 2) Trade (4 / 8) General Management (17 / 31) Resources (5 / 6)

All countries reaching PCP Stage 3 must at least have reached compliancy level 3 (i.e. general agreement with OIE standards) for the 33 FMD-relevant CCs

• The strengthening of Veterinary Services is tailored to the FMD PCP and recognition of programmes and free status by the OIE

• For example, the following CCs are relevant to specific FMD PCP stages: CC ‘Risk Analysis’ FMD PCP Stage 1 CC ‘Early detection and emergency

response’ FMD PCP Stage 3

• For the above CCs, PVS level 3 (‘minimum compliance’) is a pre-requisite to move to the next stage of the FMD PCP

FMD PCP Stage 1: PVS level 3 required for 7 CCs

FMD PCP Stage 2: PVS level 3 required for 17 CCs

FMD PCP Stage 3 (request for official OIE endorsed FMD national control programme): PVS Level 3 for all 33 CCs

FMD PCP Stage 4 (transition towards OIE-free status with or without vaccination): PVS level 3 for all 33 CCs

A correspondence table has been worked out between the PCP Stages and the compliance level required for each of the PVS Critical competencies

(CCs) relevant to FMD control

Table I. Selection of FMD related PVS CCs

Linking the PCP-FMD stages to the OIE PVS levels of Critical Competencies

Thank you for

your attention