Policies, strategies and plans
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) builds capacity and cooperates with countries and their institutions to formulate and implement evidence-based policies, strategies and plans that create an enabling environment to effectively operationalize detection, prevention and control measures against zoonoses and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This entails facilitating effective One Health collaboration at the national and local levels, with both public and private sector actors.
Laws and regulations
Laws and regulations are two of the policy instruments countries can adopt to facilitate the implementation of livestock-related policies, strategies, and plans. By prescribing certain public and private sector behaviours, laws and regulations provide incentives for stakeholders to adopt good practices that minimize the introduction and spread of pathogens at the different nodes of the livestock value chain. FAO cooperates with countries to revise and formulate laws and regulations that, while considering international standards, are context-specific and, as such, support a progressive approach towards the adoption of good animal health practices.
Policy implementation
FAO ECTAD provides trainings to policy implementers, including farmers, animal health service suppliers and other actors along the livestock value chain, to facilitate their adoption of practices compliant with existing laws and regulations, thereby supporting the implementation of existing animal health and One Health policies, strategies and plans. ECTAD also engages public and private stakeholders in co-creation processes to design and pilot animal health and One Health interventions that minimize the negative public health effects of livestock systems, supporting the enforcement of the existing animal health and One Health legislative and policy frameworks.