@fao rne Susan Mawjoy, monitoring and evaluation specialist for the Africa Region and the ECTAD team during the training course

Cairo/ 04 July 2016--The Emergency Center for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) organized a training course to follow up and monitor the FAO component of the USAID-funded Emerging Pandemic Threats Programme 2 (EPT2). Susan Mawjoy, monitoring and evaluation specialist for the Africa Region, and Lotfi Allal, ECTAD team leader in Cairo, participated in the workshop, which was held at FAO headquarters in Cairo on 3 and 4 July 2016. Representatives from Egypt and Jordan, as well as the ECTAD and EPT2 teams in the two countries, attended the workshop.

The workshop was aimed at explaining to all ECTAD and EPT 2 teams in Egypt and Jordan the action framework to follow up and monitor the programme, as well as reviewing the indicators, defining terms, and discussing ways to collect and analyze data through a review of the tools that will be used to collect basic data.

The workshop was organized a few days before the start of basic data collection for the FAO component of the EPT2, which is scheduled to take place in July and August 2016. This process is aimed at:

1. Collecting basic data for the USAID-funded FAO component of the EPT2  and
2. Conducting a real (guidance) test for the performance indicators and the data collection tools with a view to continuously developing and improving the process based on reactions.

The action framework for following up and evaluating the FAO component of the EPT2 was launched in Rome in October 2015. Performance indicators were set based on the results of intensive country-level and regional consultations among the programme implementing partners.

To complement the action framework and the indicators, a detailed summary of the FOA component indicators was drafted, and forms were prepared to collect data and basic information regarding indicators, concepts, calculations, and ways to compile data using Excel programme to make it easier for the participating countries to collect, classify, and report information.