This second version of the One Health Coordination Platform Governance Manual incorporates valuable lessons learned from previous health emergencies, aligns with international best practices, and reflects our national commitment to improving coordination, transparency, and accountability within the One Health framework, in order to ensure that all actors, from national ministries to county-level stakeholders, work together effectively to safeguard public health. The Mission of this One Health Governance Manual is to effectively coordinate a One Health approach ensuring multisectoral partnership, participation, resource mobilisation, accountability, and transparency at all levels. The vision improves public health outcomes across the human, animal and environment interface, in order to achieve the following objectives: an institutionalised, functional One Health approach to public health events; joint planning, decision-making, and implementation related to the prevention, detection, response, and recovery to harmonise efforts across sectors; an enabling environment that facilitates information sharing, interoperability and innovation; resource mobilisation, accountability, and transparency; strengthened capacity at individual, organisational, and systems levels to carry out health security needs; leverage core expertise and capabilities of each agency to determine and direct intervention to address possible health threats that relate to humans, animals, plant and the environment that cut across multiple sectors. The Manual also describes: functions and structure of the National Steering Committee; topics of interest of the Technical Working Groups, including: Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), emergency preparedness and response, risk communication and community engagement, food safety, research and innovation. The Manual also concerns the following functions: ensuring the enforcement of existing laws and regulation of surveillance activities; improving collaboration among governments, organisations, institutions, agencies engaged in human-animal-plant-environment interface; increasing preparedness and management of zoonotic disease epidemics; ensuring regular information sharing using standard data collection and reporting tools; reducing incidence of infection through effective sanitation, hygiene and infection, prevention and control measures; promoting optimal use of antimicrobials agents in human, animal and plant health; identifying opportunities for economic investment to ensure sustainability of innovations; developing a One Health workforce strategy to help prepare for and respond to public health threats; improving risk communication and community engagement activities across all sectors; describing current and future challenges along the agri-food supply chain; providing technical guidance on food safety issues, including risks assessment, risk engagement and risk communication; improving food safety for One Health’s analysis; strengthening leadership, governance and coordination on food safety. Lastly, the Manual focuses on functions of the One Health Platform before, during and after public health emergencies.
Либерия · 2025-04-01