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ENHANCING THE LIVESTOCK DEVELOPMENT IMPACTS IN AFRICA THROUGH THE ALIVE PARTNERSHIP
The sixteenth Executive Committee meeting of the ALive platform was held on 25 and 26 November 2010 at the Salam Azalai Hotel in Bamako, Mali. Dr Mamadou Kane Secretary General of the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries of the Republic of Mali addressed the meeting on behalf of the Minister.
Dr Mamadou Kane,
Secretary General,
Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries,
Mali
This meeting gave the opportunity for the Secretariat to report on the status of implementation of Resolutions of the fifteenth Executive Committee and its activities and the participants were briefed on the implementation of activities by different partners of the platform.
The Secretariat also presented its resource mobilization strategy and the different themes to be included in the Triennial Action Plan 2011-2013 namely: Climate change and its impact on the contribution of livestock to food security, pastoralism and mobility of pastoralists, the natural resource management, the utilization and conservation of African animal genetic resources for which an African Advisory Group (CAG-AnGR) isbeing constituted and public-private partnership in developing the livestock sector were considered as well.
After years of assisting African countries to prevent and control the highly pathogenic avian influenza, the members of the platform shared their respective and common experiences to draw lessons learnt and best practices over years of multi sectoral and multi-agency collaboration that may be beneficial in preparing development partners, countries and Regional Economic Communities of Africa to fight potential threat of pandemics, emerging and re-emerging Transboundary diseases and zoonoses.
Participants follow proceedings at the meeting
In this regard, participants benefited from the perspective of different members of the platform: CIRAD and ILRI for the Research caucus, USAID and the African Development Bank (AfDB) for the donors caucus, EAC (East Africa Community) representing the African caucus and finally the OIE, FAO and AU-IBAR representing the technical partners of the platform.
It is in the same vein that a road-map and action plan for the anchoring of existing of epidemiology, laboratory, Socio Economic and Biodiversity networks at the REC level for ensuring their sustainability was presented.
Presentations and documents of EC16
The Participants adjourned the meeting on 26 November with fruitful resolutions to be implemented in 2011.
Delegates of the
Sixteenth Executive Committee of ALive
25-26 November 2010
at Salam Azalai Hotel in
Bamako, Mali
The meeting was unfortunately overshadowed by the sudden loss of a leading figure of the African veterinarian fraternity and the ALive platform Dr Abdoulaye Bouna Niang, former Africa Regional Representative of the OIE. The Members of the platform and the African Vet. professionals seized the opportunity to pay tribute to him for all his contribution to the development of livestock during his rich career.
Dr Abdoulaye
Bouna Niang
ALIVE
ALive is a
regional partnership based on a multi-stakeholders Platform to reposition the African livestock sector into the development agendas of the national, regional and international policy makers, by emphasizing its crucial impacts in terms of
poverty alleviation and
sustainable economic growth and its overall contribution to achieving the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
This platform results from strong demands from the African countries, draws lessons from recent experiences ("livestock evolution") and takes into consideration rational livestock development perspectives (“livestock Revolution”).
Initiated by the World Bank (2002), it has rapidly become autonomous by gaining support and approval from the main key actors of the sector. ALive is nowadays a voluntary, shared and renowned initiative.
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