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
Abstract
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.
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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