Good emergency management practice: the essentials

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Prepare: Elements of an emergency preparedness plan

to treat sick animals. Maintaining the awareness of livestock-keepers and traders of the risks and their obligations to report (and how to do so) is a vital part of the early detection system.

Updating disease plans Preparedness plans, contingency plans, recovery plans and operations manuals should not be treated as static documents. They should be regarded as living documents that need to be regularly reviewed and updated as warranted by changing circumstances and technical knowledge. To assist in this approach, documents might be prepared in forms that are readily updated and a document identification process used to track the “current versions”. In reviewing and updating plans, the following factors should be taken into account: • changing epidemiological situations, both within the country and externally; • new disease threats; • any deficiencies highlighted in simulation exercises; • the results of new risk analyses; • new scientific findings or technological advances (e.g. better diagnostic methods or vaccines, new techniques related to culling of animals in outbreaks); • experiences in previous equivalent outbreaks in the country and other countries; • changes in the structure of livestock industries or methods of livestock husbandry, and internal or export trade requirements; • new standards, guidelines and recommendations by international organizations such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) or OIE; • changes in national legislation or in the structure or capabilities of government veterinary services (or other government instrumentalities); and • feedback from major stakeholders, including farmers. Risk analyses may also show that new emergency diseases have come to the fore, and highlight the need to prepare a new set of contingency plans for these new high-threat diseases. It may be useful to consider the capabilities of the veterinary and other relevant services as preparations are made. The OIE Performance of Veterinary Services Pathway, which corresponds to a global programme for the sustainable development of a country’s veterinary service’s compliance with OIE standards on the quality of veterinary services, provides one good tool for achieving such a review.

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D: GEMP checklist

3min
pages 121-124

C: Risk analysis

18min
pages 111-120

A: Animal disease emergencies: their nature and potential consequences

9min
pages 103-106

Technical and financial support

2min
page 100

B: Risk periods

7min
pages 107-110

Restocking

2min
page 99

Stopping vaccination

2min
page 96

Recovery and rehabilitation of affected farming communities

2min
page 98

Declaration of official recognition of animal disease status

3min
page 97

Communication guidelines – press and public during outbreaks

1min
page 91

Local Disease (Animal) Control Centres

4min
pages 87-88

Difficult or marginalized areas

2min
page 90

National Disease (Animal) Control Centre

2min
page 86

Command and control during an outbreak

2min
page 84

Resource plans

1min
page 79

Risk enterprise manuals

1min
page 78

Operational manuals (or standard operating procedures

3min
pages 76-77

The geographical extent of culling: wide area culling or on a risk-assessed basis

2min
page 66

Management information system: the key indicators of progress

2min
page 69

Culling and disposal

2min
page 65

Contingency plan contents

6min
pages 72-75

Outbreak investigation

1min
page 70

Submission of samples from initial events to regional and world reference laboratories

1min
page 62

Animal health information systems

2min
page 59

Laboratory diagnostic capabilities

2min
page 60

Training veterinarians and other animal health staff

2min
page 55

Other strategies

2min
pages 51-52

Interface between field veterinary services and livestock farmers/traders

2min
page 54

Live bird marketing systems

2min
page 49

Developing cross-border contacts with neighbouring administrations

2min
page 46

Risk analysis processes in animal disease emergency planning

4min
pages 39-40

Incorporating risk analysis into the contingency plan

2min
pages 41-42

Illegal imports

2min
page 45

Updating disease plans

1min
pages 35-36

Contingency plans and operations manuals

2min
page 32

Public awareness

2min
page 34

A national disaster plan

3min
pages 18-20

Surveillance systems

2min
page 31

Compensation policy

2min
page 30

Factors affecting the frequency, size and length of disease emergencies

3min
pages 14-15

Role of central government, local authorities and the private sector

3min
pages 25-26

The required elements of preparedness planning

2min
page 17

Financing

2min
page 29

The value of planning for emergencies

2min
page 16
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