"Quality Animal Production" project
Good practices in health, drug and poultry by-product management
AREA:
Sahrawi Refugee Camps – Algeria
LEAD PARTNER:
VSF Italia
COUNTERPARTS:
Ministry of Public Health; Ministry of Cooperation and Ministry of Economic Desarrollo of RASD
ITALIAN PARTNERS:
Africa 70 Movement
AUSL Toscana Centro
FUNDING BODY:
Centro Salute Globale Regione Toscana
BUDGET:
80.000 €
(CSG co-financing 40.000 €)
DURATION:
24 months
(Jun 2023 – May 2025)
DESCRIPTION AND PURPOSE:
Through capacity-building and coordination activities with other cooperation actors (WFP and other NGOs/associations working in the same sector), the project aims to give a positive impulse to local food production chains, improving the quantity and quality of food and transforming food production into a tool for acquiring dignity and reducing the frustration caused by 48 years of dependence on international aid.
This objective will be pursued through the implementation of the following short-term goals:
- Initiated training and awareness-raising on the correct use of veterinary drugs
- Improved the broiler slaughter chain, trained staff and developed a strategy for the use of animal by-products from slaughtering
- An extraordinary Brucellosis epidemiosurveillance plan is in place, the actual prevalence known and a health education campaign designed.
