Context

Animal disease situation throughout Africa is a cause for concern. In Liberia, livestock diseases remain one of the principal causes of the ever-widening gap between the supply and demand for meat and milk. Technologies are available to control the main diseases; the key constraint lies in the deteriorating quality of the animal health delivery system.

The intervention:

Working with USAID niche grant in 2010, Veterinarians Without Borders, USA collaborated with VOSIEDA and other Liberia partners to conduct animal health worker trainings, laboratory skills training, ruminant nutrition and health training and vaccination programs to support disease control and reporting to restore their animal health infrastructure.

The Result:

With this training and knowledge transfer, VOSIEDA’s animal health technicians who benefited from the training  have been fully active in implementing regional trainings to teach smallholders to recognize signs of disease and report them to them to our field staffs as well as Ministry of Agriculture  so steps can be taken to control disease before an epidemic occurs.

Key facts

Sector: Capacity Building and Knowledge Transfer
Domain: Animal health
Benefiting zone: Liberia
Nature:  Collaborative Programme
Duration: 2010
Status: completed