1. The PVS Evaluation and convergence PVS-PCP Monique Eloit and Joseph Domenech OIE 4 th West Eurasia Annual Roadmap Meeting 2-4 April 2013, Bakou, Azerbaijan

2. It is a continuous process aiming to sustainably improve the compliance of Veterinary Services with international standards The OIE PVS Pathway

3. Missions completed: 111Missions requested: 118 OIE PVS Evaluation Reports Available: 81 A continuous Process to improve the compliance of VS with international standards

4. PVS Gap Analysis Mission OIE PVS Legislation missions, Veterinary Education (twinnings), Veterinary Stat Body (twinnings), Laboratory PVS Gap Analysis, One Health PVS mission. PVS Pathway Follow-up Eval., Round tables with donors. Missions completed: 56Missions requested: 74 Reports Available: 33 How and what to finance is the sovereign decision of the country

5. OIE PVS Tool Public document http://www.oie.int/eng /oie/organisation/A_2010_ PVSToolexcluding indicators.pdf -Manual of the Assessor ( Given to OIE PVS Assessors) Volume 1: Guidelines for conducting an OIE-PVS Evaluation Volume 2: Guidelines for writing an OIE-PVS Evaluation Report - OIE PVS Tool with Provisional Indicators (Given to OIE PVS Assessors)

6. Human, Physical, Financial Resources Human, Physical, Financial Resources Technical Capability and Authority Technical Capability and Authority Interaction with Stake holders Interaction with Stake holders Market Access Market Access 4 fundamental components Critical competencies (6 - 14) 5 levels of advancement PVS Evaluation of Veterinary Services The diagnosis Market Access

7. PVS Tool: Levels of advancement Level 1 no compliance Level 5 full compliance with OIE standards 5 levels of advancement (qualitative) for each critical competency A higher level assumes compliance with all preceding levels

8. PVS Pathway Follow-up Evaluations Initial country PVS evaluation = baseline founded on democratically adopted OIE international standards on Quality of Veterinary Services Regular country PVS Evaluation missions are useful to assess, monitor and accompany progress made (change in legislation, structure, impact of national and international investments, technical capacities improved, etc.). Every [2 to 5] years

9. The basic principle is that a country embarking on the PCP-FMD should acquire the appropriate capacity and capability of the VS to conduct activities aimed at the control or elimination of FMD (and other TADs). This is referred to as the ‘enabling environment’ in the PCP. Fundamental to progressively develop the Veterinary Service as the country moves up through the FMD-PCP stages and official recognition by the OIE of national control programmes and free status Linking the OIE PVS and FMD PCP Tools

10. 10 33 OIE PVS Critical Competencies (CCs) among 46 are of particular relevance to the prevention and control of FMD:  Animal Health (4 / 5)  Veterinary Public Health (1 / 4)  Laboratory (2 / 2)  Trade (4 / 8)  General Management (17 / 31)  Resources (5 / 6) All countries reaching PCP Stage 3 must at least have reached compliancy level 3 (i.e. general agreement with OIE standards) for the 33 FMD-relevant CCs

11. The strengthening of Veterinary Services is tailored to the FMD PCP and recognition of programmes and free status by the OIE For example, the following CCs are relevant to specific FMD PCP stages:  CC ‘Risk Analysis’  FMD PCP Stage 1  CC ‘Early detection and emergency response’  FMD PCP Stage 3 For the above CCs, PVS level 3 (‘minimum compliance’) is a pre-requisite to move to the next stage of the FMD PCP

12.  FMD PCP Stage 1: PVS level 3 required for 7 CCs  FMD PCP Stage 2: PVS level 3 required for 17 CCs  FMD PCP Stage 3 (request for official OIE endorsed FMD national control programme): PVS Level 3 for all 33 CCs  FMD PCP Stage 4 (transition towards OIE-free status with or without vaccination): PVS level 3 for all 33 CCs A correspondence table has been worked out between the PCP Stages and the compliance level required for each of the PVS Critical competencies (CCs) relevant to FMD control

13. Table I. Selection of FMD related PVS CCs Linking the PCP-FMD stages to the OIE PVS levels of Critical Competencies

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