The FAO Asia programme on highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), under Regional ECTAD/RAP, was launched in early 2006. The First Annual Meeting of the Asia Regional Programme on HPAI meeting was held in January 2007 in Bangkok which provided an important opportunity for the programme staff in the Region to meet as a group and develop a common understanding of the complex issues and challenges to be dealt with in the Region. Since then, the Annual Regional Meeting for the ECTAD Regional Programme in Asia and the Pacific (AREM) have been organized with a motivation to and focus on evolving each meeting over this time period. Each AREM has given an opportunity to ECTAD teams from country, regional and headquarter levels to review the ongoing activities and re-evaluate ECTAD’s future direction taking into account the changes likely to take place in the next few years—both within and outside FAO.

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