One Health, One Caribbean, One Love

The One Health concept provides a framework to address zoonotic diseases in a broader and more coordinated manner, at the human-animal-ecosystems interfaces by promoting transdisciplinarity and collaboration across all government sectors and society to reduce significantly health risks. "It is a unifying force to safeguard human and animal health, to reduce disease threats and to ensure a safe food supply through effective and responsible management of natural resources" – Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Strategic Action Plan.

Project start date:

01/03/2014

Project end date:

01/03/2017

Objectives

The goal of the project is to increase food security, animal health and production in Caribbean countries by promoting the "One Health" approach to zoonotic and food-borne disease surveillance, diagnosis and response. The project uses participatory methods to identify key constraints and issues at the animal-human-ecosystem interface and is developing and testing innovative One Health strategies to resolve these problems. It is also training One health leaders accross the region.

29 One Health Leaders from 12 countries graduated in the Caribbean!

2016.12.14_Press Release_ACP One Health project (218 Ko)

Description

The “One Health, One Caribbean, One Love” project is implemented by University of the West Indies (UWI). Project partners are Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), Ministries of Agriculture of Guyana, St. Kitts and Nevis and Grenada.

Funding is through the European Union (EU) from the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) Science and Technology Programme (S&T II), and is being supported by the EU under the 10th European Development Fund – Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) Project being executed by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)

The One Health approach embraces the inter-connectivity of the world and tackles the type of problems we face collectively as a region including climate change, habitat destruction, biodiversity loss, over-exploitation, food security, water issues, invasive species and emerging diseases.