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2 March  2022 
(22-1942) Page: 1/1 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
 
IGAD BRIEF UPDATE REPORT TO THE  SPS COMMITTEE  
MARCH 2022  
COMMUNICATION FROM THE INTER GOVERNMENTAL  
AUTHORITY  ON DEVELOPMENT (IGAD)  
The follow ing communication, received on 1 March  2022, is being circulated at the request of the 
Intergovernmental  Authority on Development  (IGAD).  
 
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1.  The IGAD Center for Pastoral Areas and Livestock Development (ICPALD) is a regional technical 
center of IGAD (Intergovernmental Authority on Development ), a regional economic community 
serving the seven  member States in East Africa (Djibouti , Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, 
Somalia and Uganda) . 
2.  Technical support provided for the above member States by IGAD/ICPALD during the reporting 
period to enhance transboundary animal disease control and livestock trade in the region , 
complementing the national development efforts of member States, include s: 
1  BILATERAL CROSS -BORDER MEETINGS  
3.  Following the signing o f the cross-border MOU by Ministers of Ethiopia and Djibouti  and of  Somalia 
and Ethiopia and the development of the implementation framework to operationalize the MOUs , 
cross-border meetings were organized back-to-back in Djibouti for the two clusters from  
7-10 December  2021. A joint vaccination calendar for priority transboundary animal diseases (TADs) 
and a surveillance plan were successfully developed for 2022 for Djibouti and Ethiopia; and for 
Somalia and Ethiopia by the country delegates.  
2  REGIONAL PLATFORM FOR TADS CONTROL  
4.  The 11th Eastern Africa Regional Animal Health Network (RAHN) meeting was organized on 
16-17 November 2021 and attended virtually by participants from 11 EAC and IGAD member States 
and partners. The platform deliberated o n strengthening of RAHN, exchanged good practices and 
lessons and emerging issues , the need for coordination , capacity development , use of tools and 
technology , and resource mobilization to enhance TADs and zoonosis control.  
5.  Acknowledgement: IGAD/ICPALD is grateful to member States, AU-IBAR, the European Union  
and FAO for their collaboration and/or financing the implementation of the above activities . 
 
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