The Effect & Contribution of One-Health Approach Perception to Pastoral of Livelihood: The Case Study of Filtu & Dekasuftu woredas, Somali Regional State, Ethiopia.

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2019-06

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Addis Ababa University

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The Government of Ethiopia and its development partners recognize the critical importance of intensifying multi-sectoral and multidisciplinary collaboration and coordination to be able to effectively prevent, detect and respond to health threats at the animal, human and environmental interface. The four core One-Health government sectorial signed the Memorandum of Understanding. The human, animal and environment interface has made the routine disease prevention and control process shows a promising start in Filtu and Deka-Suftu Woreda. This condition created a new concept, one health, in which the health of each group is interconnected and dependent. This concept is based on the collaborative efforts and communication of multiple disciplines working together to attain optimal health of people, animals, and the environment. Therefore, the objective of this review is to show how an integrated work between concerned bodies mainly animal and public health is helpful for better health in the pastoral areas of Ethiopia through one health approach; assess its contribution in livelihoods promotion and explore its overall relevance to the study area. Many livestock diseases are not limited only to animals but directly or indirectly transmit from animals to humans and are known as Zoonotic diseases. The occurrence of zoonotic diseases involves interaction of animal, human and the environment requiring coordination and collaboration of efforts between human and animal health as well as other relevant sectors to attain optimal health for people, domestic animals, wildlife, and the environment. This is highly important and value adding in terms of manpower, resource and financial savings. However, because of no or little awareness and knowledge on zoonotic diseases and their control and prevention strategies, different sectors make separate efforts. CCM & stakeholders have recognized the gap and importance of OH approach and established OH project to focus on the creation of better understanding on zoonotic diseases and their control and prevention methods which could be achieved through trainings of environmental, animal and human health professionals, authorities, other relevant stakeholders and the community. CCM focused on their specialities of animal & human health activities, others managed the environmental part. It is also important that CCM in collaboration with other stakeholders establish One Health platform and strategy through which implementation of OH concept could be realized. This is an important step as it brings multidisciplinary sectors together for coordinated and collaborative efforts through effective mobilization of resources, early disease outbreak detection, reporting, introducing surveillance systems, joint planning, and implementation of effective and sustainable control and prevention of zoonotic diseases. iv | P a g e The Problem of life conditions of pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in Filtu and Dekasuftu Woreda not solved by the involvement of a number of NGOs like CCM, but also needs a participatory approach where the community, public and animal health workers, and local authorities as well as other relevant sectors was actively involved. The One-Health Approach intervention without a collaboration of the pastoral and agro-pastoral communities, the woreda, zonal, regional and federal level government bodies like universities, research institutes and donor countries should give priorities to be One-Health Approach sustainable. I recommend the following based on our research objectives and research questions that the gap what I observed to be filled by the current One-Health Approach interventions concepts.

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One-Health Approach, Zoonotic diseases, pastoralist livelihood, integrated approach

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