Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD)
Asia and the Pacific Region

Farmers during the FETPV training in Indonesia
04/10/2023

The 45th ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry (AMAF) meeting adopted three policy and technical frameworks on avian influenza, animal diseases risk mitigation and veterinary epidemiology assessment tool.

Engaging the youth for innovative collaboration in the fight against African swine fever
29/09/2023

FAO ECTAD is collaborating with the FAO Partnership and Liaison Office and youth organizations based in the Republic of Korea to develop an application that would help promote biosecurity. The gamification of teaching principles of biosecurity allows the concept to be easily understood and adapted by users.

FAO’s Surveillance Evaluation Tool (SET) has led to significant investment into coordinated surveillance by the Government of Indonesia
21/09/2023

FAO, funded by the USAID, developed the Surveillance Evaluation Tool (SET). It is a tool to assess surveillance systems comprehensively, meaning a complete assessment of veterinary services capacities at national, provincial and district levels, regardless of their current priority diseases.

Beyond the pilot community: expanding innovative platform approach on smallholder farm biosecurity intervention to more countries
30/08/2023

African swine fever (ASF) poses a threat to the livelihoods and food security of many smallholders and backyard pig farmers. As the situation has evolved to endemicity in Asia and the Pacific, FAO ECTAD has designed a programme to support smallholders in improving their community resilience to ASF.

Regional simulation exercise on African swine fever outbreak investigation and beyond
30/08/2023

For the past four years, FAO ECTAD has been providing capacity building programme to strengthen field capacity for fighting African swine fever (ASF). So far, over 1 500 animal health officials were trained through FAO ECTAD programme at the regional, national and subnational levels.

USAID visited a farm applying FAO-Ministry of Agriculture biosecurity scheme in Sleman
17/07/2023

The One Health capacity building has led to a rapid response to Anthrax outbreaks in Purwosari village, Indonesia. The USAID Indonesia Mission Director visited the village to witness the strong collaboration.

03/07/2023

FAO detailed the results of its work in a published study in the One Health journal and developed a national database on captive wildlife management (CWFM) software that allowed data collection and registration of CWF.

The story of a female poultry farmer, vaccinator and trainer inspiring a growing movement
03/05/2023

The story of a female poultry farmer, vaccinator and trainer inspiring a growing movement.

Technical staff of Ca Mau SDFP use CWFM to check the civet farm.
07/03/2023

FAO will hand over the national database of captive wildlife facilities to the Viet Nam Forestry of Administration in 2023, and continue to support its application across the country

21/12/2022

Indonesia and FAO efforts to control foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks

21/12/2022

FAO efforts in increasing awareness and strengthening ASF control and recovery for smallholder farmers

21/12/2022

FAO has partnered with national counterparts in Cambodia to invest in novel technologies to improve sampling techniques and increase the speed and versatility of diagnostics

21/12/2022

Women, who are the primary caretakers of pigs in the Philippines’ households, are working together to implement ASF prevention and control measures in their farms

Women training at the laboratory
21/12/2022

In 2022, FAO’s intervention continues to concentrate on transforming AMR monitoring in animals in the region

21/12/2022

FAO continued to lead the Quadripartite organizations in advocating for and facilitating the use of the Joint Risk Assessment Operational Tool (JRA OT) in the region

29/04/2022

How epidemiology and emergency response safeguard farmers and their animals from diseases