STRENGTHENING of Public Services Capacities - PACE Program
The Pan African-Programme for the Control of Epizootics (PACE) is a programme funded mainly by the European Commission (EC), that aims at strengthening and establishing sustainable animal disease surveillance in sub-Saharan Africa. The programme, covering 32 sub-Saharan countries, is co-ordinated through the African Union/Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU/IBAR). The European Commission (EC) has been supporting the African-wide fight against rinderpest, through the Pan African Rinderpest Campaign (PARC). This project has had considerable success and the disease now appears to be restricted to two main regions, namely, southern Sudan and the southern Somali ecosystems, two areas affected by chronic conflict. The PARC project ended on 31 October 1999, after thirteen years of successful implementation. EC and AU have developed a new programme PACE, to build on the achievements of PARC.
Contact: PACE Continental Co-ordination Unit, Nairobi , Kenya P. O. Box 30786, Nairobi , Kenya Tel: (254-20) 251517/226651 334550/318877/90/92 Fax: (254-20) 226565/332046 e-mail: coordination.pace@au-ibar.org
