Global Programme
The first five year PPR Global Eradication Programme (PPR GEP) lays the foundation for implementing the strategy. The activities of these first five years influence, and are complementary to achieving, the goals and targets set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The PPR GEP aims to work with partners to strengthen implementation models, and to reactivate and build on the partnerships forged by the Global Rinderpest Eradication Programme (GREP).
Objectives
The PPR GEP lays the foundation for eradicating PPR by first reducing its prevalence in the countries currently infected. The programme will also develop the capacity for non-infected countries to demonstrate the absence of PPR virus (PPRV), as a basis for official OIE endorsement of PPR-free status. Over the five years of the programme, national VS will become key players in its successful implementation. Where appropriate, the programme will additionally support activities to reduce the prevalence of other prioritized small ruminant diseases (SRD), in particular those with the best chance of boosting the PPR GEP’s objectives. The 62 countries that report PPR presence and the 14 suspected of being infected or at risk will be the PPR GEP’s main focus.
Programme approach
The PPR GEP is a multi-country, multi-stage process that will decrease epidemiological risk levels and increase prevention and control. The four stages sets out involve assessment, control, eradication and maintenance of PPR-free status.
Regardless of the stage in which a country initially places itself, it will be supported to achieve the capacity it needs for the five key elements of PPR prevention and control: diagnostic system; surveillance system; prevention and control system; legal framework; and stakeholder involvement. Putting these five elements in place will enable any country to move with confidence to the next stage of control and eradication.
The PPR Monitoring and Assessment Tool (PMAT), as companion tool of the GCES measures activities and their impacts at each stage by requiring countries to input epidemiological and activities-based evidence, which it converts into guidance and milestones.
Because of the transboundary nature of PPR, the PPR GCES identifies nine regions/subregions and promotes regular regional coordination meetings and exchange of information between stakeholders. The PPR GEP additionally introduces an epizone approach, which combines regions/areas with similar epidemiology into zones and requires concerted control and eradication efforts across regional borders.
