Response Preparedness (RePrep) Workshop
Zoonotic diseases are transmitted between animals and people and impact health, livelihood, and national and global health security. Effectively responding to zoonotic disease outbreaks requires structured coordination between ministries and agencies in charge of human health, animal health, and the environment. However, during an emergency, there is usually limited time to organize the response and each sector tends to work independently. Using returns of experience from multiple outbreak responses, WHO, in collaboration with FAO and WOAH developed the Response Preparedness programme (REPREP) to support countries in developing a multisectoral outbreak response framework. An operational joint outbreak response plan facilitates a collaborative, joint approach to zoonotic disease outbreaks with a clear distribution of roles and responsibilities.
The programme is aimed at all relevant ministries and stakeholders at the human-animal-environment interface involved in emergency response and is best implemented prior to outbreaks, as part of emergency preparedness. The programme is divided into 3 distinct steps:
