Surveillance Evaluation Tool (SET)
Animal disease surveillance is crucial for maintaining animal health and ensuring food security. In response to global demands, FAO has developed the Surveillance Evaluation Tool (SET) to help countries assess and improve their animal disease surveillance systems. This tool provides a detailed, evidence-based evaluation of national animal health surveillance systems, guiding veterinary services to identify strengths and areas for improvement.
Comprehensive evaluation framework
SET provides detailed scoring and justifications for seven areas, 19 categories, and 96 indicators, covering all aspects of animal disease surveillance. These include institutional organization, laboratory operations, surveillance activities, epidemiologic surveillance workforce, data management, communications, and system evaluation.
Each indicator is scored on a scale from 1 to 4, representing different levels of capacity that evaluation teams may encounter. SET includes an optional biothreat module to evaluate the detection of criminal or terrorist animal health events.
Empowering veterinary services
SET provides a standardized and repeatable methodology for evaluating national surveillance systems, delivering specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) recommendations. It also assists in creating a detailed action plan to strengthen the capacity of veterinary services.
User-friendly and insightful
The tool is user-friendly, with an Excel-based interface for scoring the 96 indicators, and it generates auto-populated graphical outputs to visualize assessment results. Users can compare the outcomes of up to three assessments, making it easier to track progress and improvements.
Maximizing surveillance potential
By pinpointing the strengths and weaknesses of national surveillance systems, SET not only offers targeted recommendations but also supports capacity-building activities and helps raise awareness within veterinary services about global standards and best practices in animal disease surveillance.
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SET provides countries with a comprehensive and repeatable methodology to evaluate animal disease surveillance.