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Lessons Learned Hellen Gelband

ICID 3 March 2016

Country-Level Readiness • Not spontaneous or rapid • Deliberate process of knowledge gathering • Crossing bureaucratic boundaries to achieve One Health approach

GARP Features that Matter • Multidisciplinary, multi-stakeholder working group • Situation analysis • signals seriousness of purpose • creates cohesion among working group • key document for policy development

• Coordinator

• get work done • build capacity

GARP Relations with Government • Ultimately government responsibility • Work on behalf of the public • Independent (at least initially) but with consent/participation of government—no antagonism • Until government is ready to take over/adapt/seamlessly • Remains trusted advisor/honest broker at service of policymakers

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